Welcome to our second bi-weekly mega thread aimed at discussing a particular game in the Final Fantasy franchise. Our last megathread was all about Final Fantasy VI, you can still view and contribute to that here. This time we’re skipping a console generation and opening up discussion on Final Fantasy X!


Final Fantasy 10 logo and logotype

Synopsis

The story revolves around Tidus, a Blitzball player in Zanarkand. During a tournament honoring his father, a legendary player who went missing ten years ago, their city is attacked by a massive monster, and Tidus finds himself transported to the unfamiliar world of Spira. He joins forces with new friends, including the summoner Yuna, who is on a quest to defeat the monster known as Sin. Tidus becomes one of Yuna’s guardians and learns that his about more about himself and his past along the way.

A scene from Final Fantasy 10

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Review Scores
Site PS2 PC PS4 Xbox Switch
Metacritic 92% 83% 84% 85% 85%
Opencritic 83%
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Post Prompts

  • Do you think the game still stands the test of time?
  • Where do you rate this game among others in the franchise?
  • Is there a piece of music that stands out for you?
  • If there is one thing you would change, what is it?
  • Do you think they should have left it as a single game? Or should they even make a third?
  • @garrettz
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    41 year ago

    X is an interesting one for me. It ‘reintroduced’ me to the series. I grew up on VI, VII, VIII, & IX. X came out in middle school for me and I never picked up a ps2. Fast forward ~20 years, I meet my wife and X is her second favorite which got me to pick the series back up. Aside from sentimental, I enjoyed it. I wouldn’t say it’s top of the list for me, but it’s good game play and story. I think the sphere grid was a cool concept. The temples felt misplaced to me.

    Unpopular opinion, but I think the voice acting was good considering it’s the first for the franchise and what else was being put out back then.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Unpopular opinion, but I think the voice acting was good considering it’s the first for the franchise and what else was being put out back then

      For sure. This was still at a time when anything better than “tolerable” voice acting was extremely rare in games. I certainly was not sold on the idea when X came out. It was bad by today’s standards but good enough to justify its existence, at least.

      The list of PS1-era games that were actually made better by voice acting is very short. PaRappa the Rapper, Mega Man Legends, and…uhh…maybe that’s it.