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#9. Final Fantasy X-2

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I just played through this a couple weeks ago for the first time in twenty years. I originally picked it up in 2003 when I was 13 years old, and I HATED it lol.

But now as a 33 year old, I'm like... damn this gameplay actually kinda slaps.

Theres actually a lot to like about FFX-2. They experimented with the usual formula and it actually worked - the world is opened up right at the beginning, and the story is mostly non linear, and the player can experience as much or as little as they want. And on top of all that, the choices the player makes can actually affect the story.

And the combat is just crazy good. Like, possibly the highest culmination of traditional FF combat. I like how FFX pushed shit forward by letting you switch party members mid-battle, but FFX-2 takes it a step further by removing the middle man and just straight up letting you job change mid-battle. I was constantly coming up with out of the box/broken combinations.

For example, one time my whole party got confused and used every single Ether and Elixir I had. So I trained everyone up in Black Mage to learn MP Absorb. Then any time I needed MP, I would just switch to Black Mage and back. MP became a thing of the past.

And the combat is active time, and stronger moves take longer to cast, so if a character goes down, you can start charging Curaga, and then use a Phoenix Down after which will come out faster than Curaga, and have someone back up and to 100% in no time.

Also Sphere Break is pretty great. Just putting that out there.

And people complain about how annoying the girls were, but really, it made sense that Yuna became more confident and adventurous, considering Tidus brought her out of her shell in the first game. It's nice when character arcs actually push characters forward for a sequel (unlike Cloud in Advent Children, where he somehow went backwards.)

And Paine just rolls her eyes when the other girls are acting silly. And who could complain about Rikku? It's Rikku. It's Tara Strong at her best.

And sure, the story has hiccups, and a lot of the side content and mini games are pretty dumb, and the dungeons are a bunch of nonsense, but overall really solid game on its own. And that perfect ending... just really hit me in the feels, especially seeing it for the first time 20+ years after playing FFX.

8.5

Ancient people of Spira: "lets create a machina with enough firepower to destroy the entire world and have it be controlled by piano notes"

The ranking so far
#9. FFX-2 - 8.5
#10. FF12 - 8.5
#11. FF11 - 8.4
#12. FF7R - 8.4
#13. FF1 - 8.3
#14. FF15 - 8.0
#15. DoC FF7 - 6.0
#16. FF2 - 3.5
#17. FF13 - 3.0