I feel that FFX-2 is bad and ruined FFX.
Yes I am one of 'those' people. I used to love FFX it was a very magical, emotional, dramatic experience seeing the story unfold. The original FFX had a mystical and very fantasy like feel to it and had a lot of class. I enjoyed all the characters and their personalities, Yuna's purity, Tidus's struggle in accepting being stuck in another world and his dream existence, Lulu's stoicism etc. The tone of FFX was just right for a Final Fantasy game and it had everything one can expect from the franchise. Then Square had to ruin the image of that game with FFX-2. No Final Fantasy before had a teeny bopper pop idol atmoshere like that.. where did this idea come from? I know they were trying to express how Yuna let herself feel lighter and free of depression and sacrifical dread she carried formerly. However, they COULD have made a lighter toned existence for Yuna that wasn't so cheesy. Selphie was a positive outgoing girl but she carried herself in a more classy way and she still felt like a FF character at heart. FFX-2 doesn't have a Final Fantasy vibe, and it really shouldn't have been made as it turned out imho. The writers even made the girls weaker than a strong human in the real world could be. Remeber when Yuna was hanging off the ledge and not even Pain and Rikku could muster the strength to lift her up together. A mountan climber can easily get themselves out of that situation. All this tells me is that Y.R.P. are unsuitable to be heroes going around fighting giant mechas and beasts if they can't even do pull ups lol! Why make the girls so damn weak? How can I respect that? Then there is Pain's ridiculous fighting stance as a warrior class. Having her back turned against the enemy while dragging her sword on the ground edge facing down which would dull the blade.. really effective there Pain. Any HEMA practitioner would defeat her in a sword fight easily.
If the writers were aiming for a positive girl power thing then they really dropped the ball. Final Fantasy women that encompass courage and power to me are Terra Branford when she regains the strength to fight in the WoR.. I love Terra, Freya, Beatrix, Aerith fighting Meteor with Holy.. Aerith was an awesome FF girl, Faris, Lightning etc.
I wish they'd have made FFX-2 where Yuna was just a positive version of her FFX self. With Rikku as she was in FFX, and instead of Pain have a Freya like warrior. This plus not making the girls weaker than normal humans incapable of pull ups. Lastly, instead of pop songs like 1000 Words, a beautiful song that sounds like something from Sarah Brightman or Enya. That would have been a perfect sequel.
