no notes what is there to say no you're wrong this is one of the best games ever and I don't care just cause you don't have a magical girl soul doesn't mean that you couldn't.
WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU I CANT HEAR YOU AND THOUGH I KNOW THE REAL WORLD OF EMOTION HAS SURROUNDED ME I WONT GIVE IN TO IT
good game. much camp.
okay actually we can set brother on fire and then it would be perfect.
WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU I CANT HEAR YOU AND THOUGH I KNOW THE REAL WORLD OF EMOTION HAS SURROUNDED ME I WONT GIVE IN TO IT
good game. much camp.
okay actually we can set brother on fire and then it would be perfect.
I want to like this game. Brother is awesome, they brought back the job system and it has an interesting story. But it has this absolute bullshit completion percentage system and all but impossible to do without a guide if you want to get the good ending. So you either have to resign yourself to not completing the story or look at a guide every two seconds instead of playing the game.
Weird experiment from Square that I enjoyed but is obviously far inferior to FFX. A lightweight, fan servicey spinoff is just a weird swerve.
"Lets just take 2 beloved characters from the original game, throw in some random new chick instead of my girl Lulu, and lets just not even give it an original name, fuck it. Lets just name it X-2."
"Lets just take 2 beloved characters from the original game, throw in some random new chick instead of my girl Lulu, and lets just not even give it an original name, fuck it. Lets just name it X-2."
This game is like if you came home to find that your partner got poopy on the toilet seat somehow and they didn't clean it.
This game is ass and it smells horrible. The tonal shift from the first game is incredibly jarring, it went from a very compelling tragedy to an anime girl romp around where they do fuck all the whole time. There is zero substance to be had. The main characters aren't expanded on or developed in any shape or form.
Sure, the costumes are cool if you don't fall asleep while waiting to switch between 4 costumes in a row just to get a measly combat buff. Once you unlock the Dark Knight and Alchemist dresspheres, it's basically game over because it's the only useful combination, making the entire combat gimmick of the game feel completely pointless.
I would put drinking gasoline at a higher rating than most of these new mini-games. The 100 floor dungeon made me want to stop being alive.
I have no idea who this game was made for. The plot is infuriatingly stupid, and heaven forbid you want to learn anything about how the universe has shaped after the events of the first game, you better be following a 100% guide to a tee or you can just go fuck yourself, you piece of shit.
This is just simply not a good game. I would go back in time and abort it.
This game is ass and it smells horrible. The tonal shift from the first game is incredibly jarring, it went from a very compelling tragedy to an anime girl romp around where they do fuck all the whole time. There is zero substance to be had. The main characters aren't expanded on or developed in any shape or form.
Sure, the costumes are cool if you don't fall asleep while waiting to switch between 4 costumes in a row just to get a measly combat buff. Once you unlock the Dark Knight and Alchemist dresspheres, it's basically game over because it's the only useful combination, making the entire combat gimmick of the game feel completely pointless.
I would put drinking gasoline at a higher rating than most of these new mini-games. The 100 floor dungeon made me want to stop being alive.
I have no idea who this game was made for. The plot is infuriatingly stupid, and heaven forbid you want to learn anything about how the universe has shaped after the events of the first game, you better be following a 100% guide to a tee or you can just go fuck yourself, you piece of shit.
This is just simply not a good game. I would go back in time and abort it.
I’m tough on this one because it holds a special place in my heart. I love seeing Spira from this perspective and interacting with it in so many new playful ways. It’s close to greatness, but it fails on a couple of counts. First, the active time battle system is a little too overwhelming. I’m rarely in the mood for such chaotic battles. Secondly, the game suffers from too much optional side content required for 100% completion. There is something happening in almost every location during every chapter, and so if you want to see it all, you’re going to be stuck not progressing for a while. The game clearly tries to steer you away from it but showing the player the ‘percentage complete’ all the time activates my completionist brain. I intend to go back and finish it, but it’s fallen down my list of priorities unfortunately.
I want to make it known that I think FFX-2 is mid in spite of the gaudy pop music and lighthearted tone. I'm not one of those joyless misogynistic freaks who hates the tone change of the sequel. I actually like it a lot and I think it fits well in a world rediscovering its identity post-theocratic fiasco.
FFX-2's biggest flaws are in its nonlinearity and heavy padding with shitty minigames and side objectives. I desperately wanted to like this game more than I did; diving into Yuna's character growth transforming a selfless martyr into someone who's finally trying to live for herself (and notably stumbling along the way, as anyone would) is FFX-2's greatest strength. Solving her identity crisis is baked into the game's systems - with dresspheres, the greater political conflict between New Yevon and the Youth League, and party members Rikku and Paine.
I unfortunately could not tolerate sitting through the awful open-ended chapter structure (as opposed to FFX's hallway storytelling which I much prefer) and poor side objectives. Rikku and Paine also don't get nearly as much character spotlight as they deserve - with Rikku basically unchanged since FFX and Paine being no deeper than her relevance to the much less interesting larger plot. I think the dressphere system in battle is nice but not nice enough to make me jump through hoops in order to get all of the cool hidden classes. Even with its much shorter runtime than FFX, X-2 finds ways to pad itself drastically.
The soundtrack is also way worse.
Maybe I'll come back someday, but I think I'm better off just watching the important cutscenes on YouTube.
FFX-2's biggest flaws are in its nonlinearity and heavy padding with shitty minigames and side objectives. I desperately wanted to like this game more than I did; diving into Yuna's character growth transforming a selfless martyr into someone who's finally trying to live for herself (and notably stumbling along the way, as anyone would) is FFX-2's greatest strength. Solving her identity crisis is baked into the game's systems - with dresspheres, the greater political conflict between New Yevon and the Youth League, and party members Rikku and Paine.
I unfortunately could not tolerate sitting through the awful open-ended chapter structure (as opposed to FFX's hallway storytelling which I much prefer) and poor side objectives. Rikku and Paine also don't get nearly as much character spotlight as they deserve - with Rikku basically unchanged since FFX and Paine being no deeper than her relevance to the much less interesting larger plot. I think the dressphere system in battle is nice but not nice enough to make me jump through hoops in order to get all of the cool hidden classes. Even with its much shorter runtime than FFX, X-2 finds ways to pad itself drastically.
The soundtrack is also way worse.
Maybe I'll come back someday, but I think I'm better off just watching the important cutscenes on YouTube.
A very fun sequel to the original. I did enjoy the the all girls approach to this game which as a kid I thought was cool since I found all my waifus in one game. Going back to it Rikku is 16 in this game and she dresses like that. Yuna is at least 19 and the other one I'm not sure about. The beginning has a J Pop scene that I enjoy and the game is very fun once you learn it. The music is good and that that. Overall fun game.
"We've been hoodwinked, bamboozled, led astray, run amok, and flat out deceived."
I was so excited for a direct sequel to one of my favorite Final Fantasy games... and then I played it...
It took everything I loved from FFX, and took a big, fat shit on it. This game is an abomination and I pretend that it doesn't exist.
I was so excited for a direct sequel to one of my favorite Final Fantasy games... and then I played it...
It took everything I loved from FFX, and took a big, fat shit on it. This game is an abomination and I pretend that it doesn't exist.