#13, by MachtnixFriday, 16. December 2016, 03:04 8 years ago
I played FF9 with a PS1 memory adapter - but it was ... let me say ... worse. I can't finish...
And then Final Fantasy X was a miracle. It has the most illogical story ever, the most stupid gameplay (with typical FF-fight music, the same all the time...), hours of boring cut scenes with nonsense dialogs, an average graphic, and the main character is an idiot and runs like a drunken chicken ... but we all loved it. I don't know why.
Maybe because it was new at that time. OK, the rendering movie scenes were great, state of the art. The world was big, colourful, and the characters were funny and talked a lot. I think FFX was like the old (the only!) Star Trek series - you must love it or hate it.
At the end you can fight against the "judge" (I think, he was only in the German version?) and it was a fight about three hours, the most stupid fight I ever did ... and you get nothing for it. Just for fun.
FFX has some side quests and missions to play it again and again. It wasn't - of course - an adventure game, but it has a tear-jerking story, seven main characters with own history, a lot of strange locations and a take-a-break fight system you can drink coffee if you need. It was boring sometimes because it was a mixture between adventure, movie and join-the-party-game, but this adventure part could be the reason to be so successful (so they made the FFX-2, but it was a flop, I think). If you take away the fighting part, FFX could be an useful adventure...
There are only a few games I would play again (Riven, Last of Us, Mass Effect, Portal, Bioshock, Monkey Island, Colossus), - but FFX is one of them.
edit: Please don't talk about Blitzball! DON'T!