Quote Originally Posted by x Quistis x
[COLOR="Magenta"]i liked FFX-2, i thought it was a nice change from the tradiotional ff's. the missions were fun, the story was good ( i liked the whole Shuyin/Lenne thing)
It wasn't a bad game after I got over the dissapointment over the lack of Tidus / Yuna romantic scenes

THAT was my main beef with FFX2 and to be honest, I believe that was a huge strategic blunder by SE. They obviously made the game to appeal to the female audience with all the girly dresspheres and a 3 girls team. Then they shortchange us girls in the Yuna/Tidus romance part ?!?!?!
They lost the girl audience there IMHO.

Little Romance + Girly overtones = Blah!
Besides the letdown on romance, to atract more girls they needed to have male playable characters. Just like boys like to move Lara Croft around we girls love to have a hunk to do all our bidding on the game control pad... Not even my little boy obeys me as much as Tidus did, let alone his dad!

I tell you the lack of Yuna/Tidus action bothered me and my 7 year old a lot!
On my first run through FFX2 we were cursing it by chapter 3 and only stopped - a bit - by the "Good Ending"...

Blitzball is lame...
My other letdown was the fact that you can't move the blitz players anymore

Great new battle system
But then I had to go through it over and over again to get the "Perfect Ending" so I ended up getting used to the annoying music and I started liking the slick new battle system. It is faster and requires strategy to win some fights, not just picking "strongest attack". The new battle system is a lot harder than the one in FFX, at least at first. But I liked the challenge!!

End of Sphere Grid = Cool!
Believe it or not, after I got used to it, I loved the new Garment Grids and Dresspheres system. It i much slicker than the old, complicated sphere grids. I hated the girly name they picked for it though. The name and the "dress" threw me out at first and I initially hated it but then my kids made me help them play SoulCalibur IV (one of those fight games) and I realized that the not girly Soulcalibur had the same: New costumes, new skills, new shields and new weapons that you could unlock with game playing. Yet everyone, males and females loves Soulcalibur and even the new dresses you can unlock for the fighters! The only problem in FFX2 is the girly name. Call it "Armor" and "Equipment Grid" and I and many others will love it!

Sphere Break is more fun than Sudoku!
At least for me and other math fans! I wish I could buy a sphere break gizmo at Radioshack like I can buy for Sudoku or Solitaire..

All in all I liked the game a lot, after I recovered fom my dissapointment at how little we saw of Tidus in this game!