Sunday, May 10, 2009
My reviews about final fantasy X
Here is a video on Youtube(which I didn't make)that has the orchestral version of "To Zanarkand". It shows a lot of the good scenes in it.
Enjoy!
I just bought FFX for like about a year of so, and started playing'em on the last 3 months and finally beat the whole thing.
Personally, I really think that it is a great game to play.
That's why i love the Square Enix games, not only they have all those graphics and music and fighting scenes, they also have a touching yet insightful plots.
And I think that's why that they would go worldwide and still be so popular.
It's not like those violent fighting games that people are addicted to and fighting their eyes red, this game actually sent a churn in my stomach and made my throat croak. It was too touching.
I mean, I am a fan to romance stories, and I've read a lot of them, in many writing styles. I always love the chemistry between those two people more than the hot n' heavy physically R-rated stuff.
But the romance between Tidus and Yuna was way out of the scale.
A dream that didn't even exist in the beginning fell in love with a girl who was intending to save the world from the monster Sin by sacrificing her own life.
In the end, either Tidus has to disappear, or Yuna has to die.
If Tidus disappears, the world would be in peace forever.
If Yuna dies, the irrevocable cycle of death-Sin is going to come back again. The people would still be in danger.
It's either him, or her.
They couldn't be together what so ever.
That's what makes it sad.
A lot of fans were whining:"Why does Tidus have to disappear?!?!?It's so unfair!"
However, if you really contemplate the story, Tidus disappearing might just be the best choice of all.
Firstly, he is just a dream, he doesn't have a life to lose in the beginning.
Comparing to Yuna losing her acutal life and not able to come back, this is better.
Besides, the world would be happy without Sin forever.
The best strategy to do that was to make him disappear.
In the ending, when the hostile feelings between Tidus and his father was solved, and all the eidilons were disappearing by the effect of Yuna's beautiful dance, Tidus was watching her, and watching himself becoming transparent bit by bit.
According to the rhythmn of "the Fayth's Hymn", Yuna's body was twirling on the airship.
When Yuna dashed out to Tidus, attempting to embrace him but fell down, I felt acid rushing from the inside of my eyes.
What really made me burst into tear was the scene when Tidus placing his transparent arms gently around her, as if he could really feel her warmth(which he couldn't). That moment, "To Zanarkand" suddenly rose in climax, making the moment sadder than ever.
The oxymoronic feelings of happiness and sorrow really made my heart ache, especially as Tidus leaped into the sky, high-fiving his dad.
This game didn't really show the development of feelings between Tidus and Yuna, because they were suppressing themselves to not fall in love with each other even though they already did at the first sight, until that long, slow, 2 minute under water kiss.
They were each other's comfort.
I was happy to find out that you are able to make him come back in Final Fantasy X-2.
Anyway........If you're playing this game(or played it a long time ago...), I'd really love you guys to share your comments with me.^^
This is really an awesome game, I wish I can play X-2.
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Very nice post, I've got to agree with many things mentioned in your(blog). It is true that many people complained because the main character(tidus) had to...well what can we say? Another point proven in saying that the story line was great. To emphasize that, I would say it was completely stunning. The gameplay, the music, the battle sequence was by far much greater when comparing it to the previous FINAL FANTASY. However, comparing from your perspective of the game to mine, I have a very different point of view. I personally find what intrigues me the most in any FF game is the music. Most of you would probably wonder 'why the hell music?' Simply put, its because im a music type of person, but it just simply makes it easier for me to understand the concept of the story, and how the storyline is being introduced. If you look at an another game done by Square Enix, there is an another game called Chrono Cross. It was hard for me to compare the two outstanding games done by Square Enix, but I eventually chose one. I chose FFX because of its storyline,character and music. Once again, having mentioned the outstanding music, I just simply cannot compare it to any other game. True that many people are into the now 'XBOX 360' with his First-Person shooters that is now a popular thing among many people that live on our Earth. However, most of the games are poorly made and some storylines are very loose. FFX however, simply blew me away. Sorry for being repetive and going off topic for many parts of this comment, but I just had to express myself as short as possible in order for people to actually take interest in this post. An overall grading by me for Final Fantasy X for it being an outstanding FF, I grade it an A+ not only for its storyline but because it exceeded anything that was made by Square Enix since the days of FF. Oh and sorry for typing so MUCH LOL. Also FFX 'To Zanarkand -OrCHESTRA' is awsome. Also sorry for my poor grammer. I never edit my stuff so it sucks >.>
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I also played FF10, and personally I was devastated that Tidus disappeared, since he was finally a cheerful character other than Cloud or Squall from ff7 and ff8, he is personally my favorite (with Zidane as well). I loved this game, great story, amazing game play, though sometimes the fights might seem repetitive...
ReplyDeleteYou should try X-2 by the way, since it concludes the romance with Tidus and Yuna, but story amazing again! Cheers!
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ReplyDeleteThis is too sad.
i've never even played it..
though I'm tempted to steal the game from you.