Don't let me be the voice of quality, believe me. On the one hand, I can spend hours discussing the subtlety and complexity of Ico and how its minimalistic approach to story and character is so well crafted that the player finds themselves enraptured into the conflicts and lives of Yorda and the boy without realizing it and then on the other hand, I also like going out to arcades and playing DDR and lets face it, no matter how good you are, you always look dorky playing DDR.

So yeah... I'm an oddity amongst fans and despite my harsh words for X-2, the game is the smurfing RPG Holy Grail compared to trash like Crisis Core and epic quality failure like Hydlyde. I actually like the game more than FFX at least, I'm only being harsh cause I'm comparing it to another title I happen to like. Even then, I will agree that VIII is far far from being perfect and has probably one of the worst written stories in the series.