A Very Underrated FF Game.

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A lot of people judge FFX-2 on appearances, but after playing it through almost twice (during my first play i had to restart 3/4 through due to PS2 malfunction!) i really found a lot to like about this game. It has a bit of a girlish element to it at first, considering the only 3 characters you get are Women, and at the very start they seem to be singing for a living which i thought was lame. But After you get about 20 minutes in it is just like FFX but it expands upon things and finishes the story. There are some brilliant elements to it such as the spheres you can find throughout the game, these add depth to this story and also to FFX's story, there are parts of the world that you were unable to explore in the first that are open in the second. It wraps things up for the story, explains a lot of odds and ends, and it is a challenging game.
It is the first FF to show you a percentage of how much of the game you have managed to achieve also, certain parts can only fully be done by playing the game under New Game+ But the bulk of it can be done in one play through, you get rewarded with extra scenes, and a better ending the more effort you put into playing it and eventually get to find out what happens between Yuna and Tidus. You also get to play the game in the particular order you chose in some cases, as more often than not you are faced with a list of 10-20 different places you can go, and each one will add a little more to the story, give you a little more work to do, and add more to your % of filled games. There is a hell of a lot to this game, and you can play it as quick or as in depth as you like. Perhaps some of the concepts used in this could have been better used in other final fantasies, as its usually the style to never revisit the same ideas often, so in that case it is a shame that this game gets the small respect it does, as i think they had something with it, its equally as special as all final fantasy games are, just not epic or stand alone.

7/10

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Added by RB6K 9 months ago on 6 March 2008 05:57