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.
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.