Quote Originally Posted by Destai
Refuse to see past? WHy dont you exlain your statements. X was very serious and very deep. Then they took that deep emotional story and blasted it into a teenage girl story. Now I have nothing against a female lead but a gender biased game isnt gonna go down well with me on many parts. The story wasnt nearly as good. While X was a dramatic romance X-2 was a cheesey romance. Thats a definite decrease and frankly it was much harder to take most of the characters and the story seriously because the game in general wasnt that serious at all compared to X. If you've played both games (Just to confirm it; I have played both games) You'll more than likely feel that X was much more serious than X-2 and it wasnt just because of the really bad music in X-2. Its the same characters, same world, exact same areas. o its entirely possible for one game to effect the other. And X-2 effected X in a very bad way.
With your logic about FFX-2, I could also say that FFX is a game meant for 13-year-old teen boys who are desperate to see a loud-mouthed sportstar and who want to see cameras zooming at Rikku's butt and Lulu's breasts, and it gets even worse, revealing and scantily-clad when Yunalesca appears. And I thought FFX-2's characters were all well-developed and had varied personalities, whereas half of FFX's cast used to annoy everything out of me (Tidus, Yuna, Wakka, Lulu, Kimahri, Seymour...)

Cheesy romance? There isn't even romance in the game for your main characters unless you go for the good ending. You mean (SPOILER)Shuyin and Lenne? I thought (SPOILER)Shuyin was a well-designed, tragic villain, who (SPOILER)died protecting the love of his life, hoping their sacrifice would at least have some meaning. But instead, 1000 years pass and people still keep killing each other, and Shuying just couldn't take that anymore, especially with the guilt of how it seems he died for nothing and how he couldn't protect Lenne. I didn't really think FFX was anything serious on my first game. After playing FFVI, VII and IX, I thought FFX was a very shallow game with a low-budget storyline, especially when I played Kingdom Hearts after that, which was emotional, deep and dark despite its Disney-ness. FFX-2's music isn't bad, either. It's relaxing in the background, unlike FFX's music, which makes me annoyed and wanting to kick someone's ass (*cough* Otherworld, Contest of the Aeons *cough*).

And it's not entirely possible for one game to ruin another. If you hated FFX-2 so much, why don't you throw your FFX-2 box on a trash bin and pretend it never happened? I wouldn't do that myself, though, since I was a lot like thinking FFX-2 was the good story and I was hoping FFX had never happened. Though I think a good game can redeem a sub-par game, so FFX-2 made FFX feel more fun and deeper too. Finally, I don't think Mr. Destai sees past the surface or past the "teenage girl story."