Notwithstanding Jiro's painfully forced FFX apologetics about other games sucking just as much, FFX does suck. Terrible characters, terrible voice acting, terrible plot points (with a decent overarching story), terrible cutscenes, and an overrated leveling system in the sphere grid.
I'd say FFX's lengthy hallways, frequent encounter rate, and rock-paper-scissors combat system exacerbate the issue, more than any other palette-swapping the other games do. Every area is designed to have a wolf, a blob, an element, a bird, etc, and they're all palette-coloured based on the environment. And really, there aren't that many unique locations in the game to begin with, so the samey-ness of it is a lot more noticeable.
It takes practice.
Tidus is still a terrible character.
Also, regardless of how well made the battle system was, it is such a piss easy game it doesn't matter.
To make it worse, at the very beginning they give you the stratagy on how to beat every monster in the game. Literally, they walk you through how to not try in the game.
I liked FFX because it was the first game for Playstation 2 I ever got, and I loved playing it when I was 12-13 (I think...)
I loved Rikku the most because she was so cheerful and full of energy, as for the game itself it was really enjoyable for me, I loved the designs and the magic and the Sphere grid and the monsters! Ahh except that.. thing erm that thing you fight on the Airship Evrae? He gave me some major trout.
I like Rikku the most too.
Not saying much.
Lulu is so useless I just want to poke her in her fricking eye
they werent robots, they were plushies powered by black magic, lol... but yes Lulu=awesome, no way around it, she was the first Black Mage i actualy found useful in the series...
untill Lulu i always shelved my Black Mages for a simple reason, a few hits and theyre the first ones dead, they fire off a couple spells and theyre out of magic untill you can get to an inn or a super expensive restorative item (when compared to all others) Ether...
i found in early game Black Mages are too weak and expensive to maintain, when FFX came around Lulu had plenty of MP to use early game compared to her predicesors, and to make it better her magic actualy did damage and it maintained it throughout the entire game, so out of all the Black Mages of FF past, Lulu was the first one done right...
Things I Liked About Final Fantasy X
- Some of the music was fantastic
- Blitzball was reasonably fun
Things I did not like
- everything else
I'm exaggerating, there were other enjoyable things about it but it wasn't great and it wasn't terrible
It's unfashionable but I've still had the most fun of any FF, playing Final Fantasy IX. Still the worst was FFVIII, I swear to smurf that was so emo i nearly pissed tears.
Last edited by Cuchulainn; 12-16-2012 at 07:11 PM.