With complete honesty, I can tell you I couldn’t tell the difference between the songs here and the ones in my memory. While the voice acting is the same as it ever was, the songs have been remastered for this edition. FFX-2 mirrors its older brother, but loses some significant coherence while gaining some shining individual moments. While the facial expressions and emotional range of character models may not be impressive today, they still show where the cinematic ambiance of modern RPGs comes from. That being said, while individual characters may not be the strong suit, the overall narrative and storytelling remain strong. The issues with FFX’s story remains - Yuna has terrible dialogue and a fairly wooden voice, Tidus is much too whiny, and Kimahri really doesn’t do anything.
There have been no changes to the story and dialogue in either game - with the exception of the addition of the “International Edition” content for both games, alongside an audio drama - so both games are straight out of the early 2000s. It’s significantly more light-hearted than its predecessor, but also a little less awkward.
Its sequel, taking place years afterward, follows Yuna on her journey after FFX with the Gullwings, an all-girl Sphere Hunter team full of spunk, looking for - you guessed it - spheres that record the history of Spira. It’s a fairly dark journey, but it introduced the modern cinematic RPG in style. Joining up with the Summoner Yuna, Tidus ultimately discovers exactly what’s going on and - you guessed it - tries to save the world. The question remains, though: after such a long development time, does this collection do what it needs to do? Unabashedly yes both PS3 and Vita owners should be happy to add this to their collections, even if there are a smattering of issues in both games.įor those who didn’t play FFX or X-2 on PlayStation 2, the rundown is simple: The first game follows Tidus, a Blitzball (think underwater soccer) player who seemingly came from 1,000 years in the past to the world of Spira to fight against Sin, a giant whale-like being that regularly destroys portions of human society. Fortunately, Square made good on their promise and both the Vita and PS3 versions of Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster launched to much aplomb. It seems like it’s been 1,000 years since Square Enix said we’d get to see Tidus and Yuna in HD.
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