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| Final Fantasy X-2 - Reviews - #1 |
Another year, another Final Fantasy from Square....not? Nope, this time we have the first release the merged 'Square-Enix.' But will it live up to the expectations of the old fans of traditional Final Fantasy's?
Turn on your Playstation 2 and put in your newly bought FFX-2 disk and what is the first thing you see? a scantily clad Yuna dancing on a stage, to what I must say is terrible music. You might ask 'what happened? Nobuo Uematsu is usally a music genuis!' But it turns out that Nobuo Uematsu didn't work on music for this game, and you end up with what you see before you.
The opening sequence is a huge let down from Final Fantasy X, instead of the fast pace blitzball and the heavy metal background music, you are greeted with thousand of people cheering on Yuna who is singing a J-Pop song.
You are now introduced to each character in turn, in a 'cartoon show' kind of way. At this point, I was thinking "was this really worth £44.99 of my money...?"
After this, is what i must admit is a cool sequence, showing Yuna firing her guns and landing next to Paine and Rikku. Now you turn and face your first battle against your archi-rivals, a skinny know it all and a fat bumbling oaf? What happened to the time when evil masterminds such as Sephiroth were your archi-rivals.
Further on into the game you meet the rest of your 'crew' onboard the aptly named Celcius. You learn you are part of a Sphere Hunter group, which as you might have guessed..hunt spheres.
One of my main gripes about this game is the lack of purpose, there is no real storyline, and playing through it you will see this for yourself. 75% of the missions in this game are irrelevant to the story, ranging from delivering 10 ballons to 10 people in an area, to solving a the mistery of what has been attacing the machina on the Djose High Road. But there is nothing to keep you glued to the screen as there were in the past FF's, your only feeling of acheivement is watching the percentage counter increase slowly.
Another thing i have to comment on is the clothing, what kind of audience where Square-Enix actually targeting? Teenage boys by the looks of it. Just look at the way Yuna and Rikku are dressed and how some of the dress spheres are designed. Surely they must realise that a wider audience than this buy their games and that their games are bought for gameplay and graphics, not for observing half dressed characters.
All that aside, the game isn't terrible, its just lacking what the previous releases did, which makes it a letdown since you have come to expect so much from the RPG giants. Maybe released by another RPG company it would be classed as a 'good game' but we expect more from Square-Enix. Or maybe this is a sign of the influcence Enix now have on Square, maybe we are in for more of the same, personally, I hope not.
It took me a long time to complete this game as I kept leaving it for periods of time, which didn't seem right as past FF's kept me playing all the time. But as i continue to play some of the other pervious titles, FFX-2 lies on my shelf, gathering dust...probably never to be played again.
- Written by ~D~
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Last Updated Thursday, September 7th, 2006
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