Final Fantasy X

Ok so I just finished Final Fantasy X and honestly the game is amazing.  It's a beautiful game with some very powerful messages themed around family and the sense of loss.  FFX is a game that plays with your emotions; and trust me when it ends you will be smacked in the face with "the feels".

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So FFX is a Role-Playing Game in which, as is the norm with Final Fantasy games, you control a team, or party, of people and progress through the game levelling up, getting new abilities and saving the day.  Although you don't level up in all RPGs such as Legend of Zelda.  In the case of FFX you level up but not exactly.  You get experience and grow Sphere levels which you can then use to increase your stats.  Whereas in the long run this is good and dandy, increasing sphere levels is pretty easy and long before the final battle you can make your characters strong enough to not find any enemies to be a threat.  Other than that this is a pretty standard RPG.

Now with the story and why I consider this an amazing game.

You start off as a character called Tidus, who lives the life of a blitzball star.  Blitzball is like football......but cooler (boy am I gonna get hate for that). One night during a blitzball match Tidus' city of Zanarkand is under attack by a giant whale like creature who's called Sin.  This monster sends down parts of it called Sinspawn to attack our main character and his protector Auron.  After the attack Tidus gets washed away and wakes up alone in some ruins, and after a run in with a monster is saved by a group of people called the Al Bhed.  Sin attacks and he loses his new friends waking on a shore near the town of Besaid.

There he meets summoner Yuna and her guardians, Wakka, Lulu and Kimahri.  A summoner is a person who goes on a pilgrimage to enlist aeons, powerful beings created from the dreams of the fayth.  The fayth are people who willingly had their souls sealed in stones so that they could continue dreaming.  Spira, you could say, is a place where dreams come true.  As the pilgrimage continues Sin attacks the party multiple times, Tidus finds out that the monster Sin that has been terrorising Spira for hundreds of years is his long lost father, the Final Aeon will become Sin upon it's death, the main religion are the Teachings of Yevon and the maesters (kind alike the popes) of Yevon turn out to be assholes.  All of them being unsent which are basically zombies....kinda.  Maester Seymour in particular has the party accused of treason, attacks the party, is killed and then tries to become Sin in order to kill everyone on the planet so they can stop grieving about death.......logic? The fuck is logic?

After the entire Yevon religion has been brought into chaos, find out that Tidus is a dream who will disappear when Sin is destroyed for good and Tidus and Yuna have a small makeout session (about 7 minutes with a japanese folk song "Suteki da ne" playing under the full moon) they move on to the ruins of Zanarkand and meet Lady Yunalesca who admits that the summoner must have one of his/her guardians become the Final Aeon by being sacrificed.  The Final Aeon would then become Sin over the course of the next 10 years thus continuing the spiral of death. After Lady Yunalesca is sent to the afterworld (aka the faplane) the party makes a plan to destroy Sin once and for all.  From the inside.

Once inside Sin they find his core.  Defeat Jecht (Tidus' father) and enter the final battle after a long heartfelt goodbye.  Yuna summons her aeons one by one as Yu Yevon, the one behind the Teachings of Yevon, who is the real mastermind and the real form of Sin, takes over each aeon, planning to use them to kill the party and make a new Sin to continue terrorising Spira.  The party defeats the aeons one by one until only Yu Yevon is left who, without an aeon to hide in, falls easily to the party.  The battle over the main characters must say their final goodbyes, as Tidus fades away. The last thing Yuna tells him being that she loves him.  The first and only time she had said it.  Tidus realising that Yuna truly loves him, attempts to hug her but can't as his body is dematerialising.  He then disappears.

Spira celebrates as the monster who destroyed their homes, their families, their hopes and dreams is finally gone.

Honestly this game was so sad and yet so amazing.  It reminds me why I love Final Fantasy.  Yeah the endings aren't always happy but the stories are always the best.  Final Fantasy X truly delivers in that department with an expected yet sad ending.

This game does however have it's faults such as methods to obtaining the ultimate weapons being a huge pain.  But hey the story is worth it.

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Honestly I love this game.  The gameplay isn't out of this world but it's familiar and a traditional RPG style, the story itself while not a masterpiece is simple and entrancing, the graphics for it's time are gorgeous (although it has been remastered for the PSVita with even better graphics).  This game honestly deserves the utmost respect and truly lives up to the name of Final Fantasy.

Rating: 9/10

Would I play this game again:
Not only will I play it again I would advise others to play it too.

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