I recently replayed FFX, because that game is so cool and also because I wanted to see if Yu Yevon was a piece of cake only because I had some of the ultimate weapons or if he really was just a bitch (turns out he’s just a bitch).
I tried to play FFX-2, but got about 25% of the way through before I got fed up with it. I tried to play it a long time ago, so I don’t really remember what it was that I didn’t like about it, although I do remember really disliking the dress spheres. I’ve always felt like if I earn an ability, I want to keep it for the rest of the game.
Anyway, the main reason I picked it up was because I wanted to know how the story ended. Since I never finished it, could someone give me a brief synopsis of the storyline? How did it end? Who was the Big Bad? Does it get a lot better shortly after I gave up, meaning I should give it another try?
Actually the dress spheres was the only thing that did it for me. I was robbed, robbed of any kind of romantic story line that I was expecting. The bit was Tidus literally crammed onto the end, and I’m still kind of bitter about it. You don’t even spend the whole storyline looking for Tidus but his fucking look-alike. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
The dress spheres didn’t bother me at all, mainly cause they offer a lot more flexibility than the job system in FF5, which is one of my all-time favorite games. What really got to me was just how strongly the game was modeled after Charlie’s Angels–I’ll take my RPGs dark and brooding, thank you very much.
Am I to understand that this person is someone who looks like Tidus fucking? Does that make it more of a similarity of physique and body language than of facial features? How do we know what Tidus looks like fucking anyway? Were there some “secret” CGI sequences that I failed to unlock in FFX?
Ok, basically Lord Ashtar:
Spoilers ahead:
The three girls go around hunting for these dress spheres. Sometimes, they find these spheres of this guy who looks just like Tidus, except his girlfriend doesn’t look very much like Yuna.
It’s her dressspheres we’re finding, so when Yuna puts them on, sometimes she can’t help acting like her. The girl (i can’t bloody remember her name) was a songstress and a summoner, too.
Anyway, the girl is also going to have to die (being a summoner), only the Tidus-lookalike absolutely won’t have it. He awakens some kind of ultimate weapon that Bevelle has hidden in the back room, to try and save her.
Somehow the present overlaps with the past. There are some very moving cutscenes of the Tidus-lookalike and his girl running away from the guards, escaping Bevelle, getting killed.
You go into the Farplane to hunt for him, and discover more and more about his past on the way.
Lulu is pregnant.
In the end, you fight the big-ultra weapon that he released from Bevelle. Then you fight the Tidus-lookalike, who has attacks exactly like Tidus.
At the end of the movie, the credits roll. If you have completed a certain percentage of the game (an easy number), you get an extra scene in which Tidus wakes up in the waters outside of Besaid Island, and swims to shore. He looks up to see Yuna’s ship coming down. Before it even fully lands, she leaps off the ship and into his arms.
If you complete 100 % of the game (which I never managed) you get one more romantic scene between them in the ruins of (mind blanked) the city! Zanarkand, that’s it.
In the middle of the game, there’s a whole fucking chapter where you just sit on your damn ship and look through cameras at the world. This is something like 20 % of the game, and it’s soooooooooo boring I could never finish it.
There’s also a lot of light-hearted singing and cheering, all very girly stuff.
On its own it wouldn’t have been horrible, just eye candy, but I was PROMISED it was “The Search for Tidus” and instead you search for this other asshole. Aargh.
After reading that summary, I’m glad I never finished the game either. I liked the dress sphere system (and especially the new looks and designs), but the actual game seemed really directionless - After playing for about 20 hours, I found that I just didn’t care about anything I was doing, and there wasn’t even really a plot in action, so I gave it up.
VCO3, I played it specifically so I could replay FFX at times. Because, since it got so depressing to replay FFX since you knew that Tidus was going to disappear at the end, I wasn’t able to replay it.
So I kept playing and playing X-2, expecting Tidus to come in, and come in. I was greatly disappointed, but at least I can replay FFX now, which is a great game, since I knew there was a happy ending. Even if it wasn’t in-depth.
