The Biggest Game Project on this Planet

Final Fantasy X

That's the Roman Numeral for 10, doncha know?
It's not a desperate attempt to make the Final Fantasy series sound cooler or more mysterious or anything. Although I think I did see a chocobo with an eyepatch somewhere.

Well, this is it. The end of the Final Fantasy series is drawing ever closer, only FFX-2 to go after this one, and that's pretty short and has largely the same environments anyway. I was kinda hoping to start playing FF 12 immediately after finishing all its prequels, but it seems that's not going to happen, since Square is taking a royal amount of time to complete this one. They haven't been showing us anything but FMV so far, so I'm figuring the actual game doesn't even exist yet.

Still, I can always play FFX very very SLOWLY and take my time, cos it's pretty big.

In this game, we play as Tidus, a feisty young Whippersnapper, who is an ace-player of the Zanarkand Apes or something, which is a famous Blitzball team. Don't know what Blitzball is? Well, count your lucky starts, cos you're not missing out on anything much.
Did you see Star Wars Episode 3 yet? Remember that scene where Senator Palpatine is watching this really weird display of big silver watery balls with lots of strange things jumping out? Well, THAT is pretty much what Blitzball looks like, only possibly less scary.

One day however, whilst Tidus is playing a match, the city of Zanarkand is attacked by a Huge Watery Monster Thingy, known as [Sin] which starts tearing up the place, possible because he's a hooligan, but we don't know.
Anyway, at the end of it all, Tidus is whisked away through some kind of dimensional time warp thingy, like the ones you get when you go to visit your grandparents, and he ends up in.....the exact same world, only a thousand miles to the south. *gasp*
Fortunately for him, the water is very warm!

But wait! There's more! It may be the exact same planet, BUT!!!! IT'S 1000 YEARS LATER! Man, I hate when that happens! Think of all the back payments on taxes you owe!

So Tidus starts looking for clues and a way back to his own time, and he meets lots of people on the way and fights monsters, falls in love, kills religious leaders, you know, the usual. Man, sometimes a day goes by WITHOUT stuff like that happening to me.

In any case, this is the first FF on PS2, which brings some changes with it, but I'll tell you about that in my end-of-game review, as usual. Aren't you lucky?

But until that time.....

最期かもしれないだろ？だから、全部話しておきたいんだ。

posted by Ingen! @ 11:59 AM