FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster

I've been playing the Final Fantasy games backwards from FFXVI and FFX is the most impressed I've been so far. The story starts out fast, dropping you right into the action before taking many steps back to introduce Spira and the cast of characters you will be spending 50+ hours with. The story itself is excellent from start to finish. There aren't really any high or low spots, it just delivers consistent good story all the way to the end. There are so many powerfully emotional moments in this game. This is easily some of the best content in the series for me. There is some beautiful music in this game. The Remaster offers classic and "arranged" sound tracks. I recommend the classic sound track. Every new combat encounter is its own little puzzle. Most bosses provide interesting arena options or otherwise have a fun gimmick. Multiple camera angles are offered for every fight. The enemy designs are great. The summons are EXCELLENT. The bosses are EXCELLENT. Lots of cool weapons and armor to collect. My favorite part of the game (besides the story) was the grind for all the special weapons and the payoff. The weakest part of the game for me was the endgame content. There is no postgame, so you have to do it all before the final area, which is fine, but it is so inaccessible compared to the rest of the game. Hours upon hours of farming are required just to be able to attempt the endgame content. What's worse is you are offered a "delete button" for certain fights which defeats the purpose of this content. For those who are truly dedicated to the grind, I've been told there are some very interesting fights. For me, it was kind of like getting to the end of FFXIII-2 and going "nah, I'm not gonna do these fights" again. I will return when FFX-2 is done...

One of the best final fantasy games, unfortunately this is a terrible port of the game. Most of the cut scenes go to a solid green screen which is incredibly disappointing as the console versions show how beautiful this game is. People have different preferences on older games being ported to PC, but for me personally i'd like to see all cutscenes the same as they appeared on console and especially the fact that this game is $35 (off sale) in my currency i'd expect it to have a decent port. Only pro is the cheats you get which can be helpful early game but honestly it definitely doesn't outweigh the cons. If you have literally any playstation from ps2 or above just use those to play it, it is truly a much better experience. Each to their own though :P

awful bro just awful

Esse jogo é uma obra prima

buh

great

This game is a classic for a reason--almost everything about it holds up, and those pieces that don't hold up so well are easily correctable with features supplied by the remaster or with mods. The plot, dialogue, voice acting, and pacing are still great. The dialogue can sometimes feel a bit too constrained and I'd have appreciated an in-scene fast forward similar to Crimson Desert's, but there are vanishingly few cutscenes that aren't pretty good. The battle system and character models are my only real complaints. Each character must be used in a battle in order for them to gain experience. In practice this means you need to switch between each character in each battle, even if that means you are artificially extending the battle's run time, in order to level each party member. Kind of annoying, but the fast forward feature for battles makes it less of a pain. But the character models are atrocious. I can't believe these were allowed to ship. I hear that Square lost the original high detail characters models, but there is no reason the final versions here should have been acceptable. They are a blight on the title and if they weren't fixable I wouldn't recommend this version of the game under any circumstances. This is a character driven RPG with a ton of cutscenes in which facial animations sometimes play an important role. The original game's models sometimes exhibited finely controlled motions which these abominable botox versions completely miss. Thankfully, you can mostly correct the issue with the noble work of Vyacharin's "Restore PS2 [character] but fully refined" mods, which aim to create an HD version of the original PS2 high detail models. If a modder could do this, why couldn't professionals? At any rate, you CAN fix this problem, so buy the game--it's a beautiful story. I didn't replay X-2 this time around. It was fun when it came out originally, but I have no desire to go back to it.