It's extremely jarring how SE gave us this thing only a couple of years after realeasing one of the best games ever (in my opinion), Final Fantasy X.

This game is simply a joke and I find it kind of disrespectful to all the fans of the original FFX. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the silliness and absurdity of some of the scenes, and I also find the YRP stuff quite funny. I just don't get for the life of me why they had to use the FFX setting for it. The tone shift is extremely jarring.

The story is VERY dumb and completely undoes the most powerful moment of the previous game. Yuna and Rikku don't feel like the same characters, which I get is kind of the point, but still feels wrong. I liked Paine, nothing to complain there.

The battle gameplay is okay. I enjoyed the dressphere system, even if I ended up always using the same ones (dark knight is broken). I still much prefer FFX's battle system, I find it more strategic and engaging. This one was too much "press X to win" for my like.

The music is not bad either, but again, FFX's OST is unbeatable. It's pretty weird how the game shamelessly reuses character and enemy models, and environments (they didn't change a bit in 2 years?), but they did not put a single FFX track in it.

However, the real worst thing about this game for me, something I can't understand at all, are the "misseables". This game will punish you for not doing very concrete actions in really concrete moments by locking you out of content. "You didn't press X three and half times during this cutscene? Congrats! You get the bad ending." Oh boy, am I salty about it.

Anyway, this game is a minigame marathon with some FFX themes thrown in. You can complete it in less than 10 hours if you ignore the side stuff (which is like 90% of the content, admitedly).

I can only hope for Final Fantasy X-3 to never happen which, knowing Square-Enix, is very unlikely.

I loved the story and characters in X so much that I couldn't wait to play X-2 and see what Journey Yuna, Riku, and Paine would have. I was surprised to see how different this game is than the original, both the gameplay and narrative are different and maybe that's why most people don't like this game.

Is the Story good : It was enjoyable, had great humor, and a nice conclusion to some of the characters. I just have this MAJOR criticism, and it's about the RIDICULOUS Perfect ending requirement as it needs 100% Story Completion, and to attain that on the first playthrough it's pretty much impossible without a guide. Even then it's still difficult, lots of things that can be missed. But the Good and Perfect endings wrap up the story very well for Yuna.

Is the Music good : It was alright, not as GOOD as the 10's music, but its nice.

Is the Gameplay good : The gameplay mechanic for X-2 is based on dresspheres, which are equipable and changeable outfits with different abilities, I liked it myself. But another criticism I have is the ANNOYING Trophies like defeating the boss under Bevelle, "Via Infinito" is an ATROCIOUS dungeon, 100 Copy Pasted Floors with some good bosses in it.

Overall, it was a great game and people who couldn't handle the depression after X's ending, then you should go for the GOOD ending, which has a few missable steps. X and X-2 are games I will never forget, absolutely amazing Final Fantasy games!

X-2 LAST MISSION is a complete joke of a game, the gameplay is horrible, and only reason you'd climb 80 floors of generated nonesense is for the achievements. You can just watch the cutscenes on youtube if you're not a trophy hunter... The story is nice but not worth that gameplay

This shit sucks so much ass. Holy shit. What type of crack were they smoking back then? This game is arguable contender for worst game ive played, so much so that i dont even know where to being. The atb bar is back for some fucking reason. I dont like the atb bar, and i dont know why square has kept it around for 6 games up till x-2. FFX had a great system with the ctb bar. It made the game more methodical but also retains the speed too. The atb bar is fucking boring, its either too god damn fast where you just hit the first option that seems optimal or its awfully slow like FF9. Theres also not much thought that goes into playing an rpg with the atb gauge, you pretty much do the same shit in every game from FF4 to 9. X-2 does little to make itself stand out from a game like FF3. A game that came out on the nes. In 1990. On way inferior hardware. The dresspheres is just ff3's class system but they tell you what they do at least unlike 3. The gameplay is damn near identical, i dont even thinks theres limit breaks in this game which was a part of every game from 7 to 10. I'd love for someone to tell me what about this gameplay is so drastically different from the nes games. I could tell you why 8, 9 and 10 play way differently but this game? Hell no. Its dull, the battle music isnt even good, and it does nothing to deserve the name of an main finaly fantasy title.

The story is nothing. It just shows the character from the 1st game but now theyre living boring normal lives now. Paine is a nothing character whos only purpose i belive was to be the female warrior character in the party. Rikku is a gag character. Yuna is kinda interesting in how drastic her character shifts but its so unrewarding because we, the players, dont really get to see the change occur. It just time skips ahead and now shes a new character. The game comes off like im playing a shiiltty charlies angel rpg. I dont like the multiple endings, i dont like the perfect one. Getting 100% to get the real ending is a fucking wild decision, whoever made it needs to be fired. Mission select is especially annoying considering you could waste time in an area thatll kick your ass. The creature mechanic is awful and confusing, why did this need to be a thing? Game just woke up and decided it wanted to be pokemon for a bit. The music sucks ass, albeit the theme on the airship is pretty cool. People say "its fine, its just camp". Just because its camp doesnt make it good, its still a slog to play through. Theres plenty of game that are both but this one is not. To reiterate, this game just feels like square enix wanted to make a game that was a rpg about charlies angels, and just ripped the characters from a pretty good game and just fucked it all up. Going from 10 to this feels like playing mario galaxy and then playing mario on the nes. The only reason id prefer playing this over FF3 is because 3 is annoyingly bad at points, but has better highs where this game is just boring all the way through. Its like choosing between two different piles of shit. I went in with expectations that it wasnt gonna be as good but it cant possibly be that bad after a quality game like 10. Now im just sad and upset.

This is a truly difficult game to judge. This game is notorious for being such a chore for to complete, and after getting 100% myself, I agree. Put that on top of the larger-than-story side quests and minigames and the game can feel like an absolute grind at points. But by the mid/end game X-2's battle system feels like one of the best in the series. So can I ignore the bad for the good? Absolutely not. It's strange for the best part of the game to feel like filler, when that part is supposed to be the main system, and in order to unlock some of the best parts of this game, it is almost essential that you follow a guide.

i was lied to

this game wasn't about a pop band touring the recently liberated world

big marks against it for that tbh, lost opportunity, and what it actually did was... fine but you know

give me what i was promised, cowards

lots of systems in this game that mostly feel superfluous (the creature capture stuff especially) until the superbosses that require the usual obscene amount of grinding that these games always ask for, and that shit sucks

ps fuck atb

the last mission standalone thing was just a bad roguelike and the most i have to say about it is that while looking up info on it i stumbled on a guide where a guy went on a rant about how the girls spend a lot of time "bickering about nothing" but they literally only had one fight and it lasted thirty seconds

that said it was still a bad story, just... completely pointless and offered nothing new