FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster

Crashes a lot, so much green screen its crazy. then you have to download a patch from an unknown website to make it work, tbh should've done all of this in the first place.

FFX I actually finished one of these (2026: year of the JRPG?? Probably not, though). I don't feel equipped with the limited number of barely finished JRPGs under my belt to tackle their mechanics, but I feel this one is fine. Yunalesca was a towering achievement of boss design for this kind of battle system, and shows the strength of the CTB approach, too. What kept me going was, yes, the pacing but also the writing is tiiiight. I am a sucker for the everything is a metaphor and subsequently a meta-metaphor writing style of Nojima and Co. Cutscene direction is nice too. I think Kitase had a filmmaking background? If I ever replay this though, I might stick to emulation. Face models were big whoops.

Cried.

The best final fantasy game for sure.

Not only one of the best Final Fantasy games but one of the best games made ever. The port is decent - there's green screen occuring with some of the cutscenes after certain amount of hours (2, maybe?) but a quick reload solves the issue. The new remaster faces are not better than the original ones, I'm afraid, but the game looks good texture-wise and the music is still top tier. If you have access to the PS2 version, I'd say play that with the original faces and for the original experience but the remaster is not bad at all.

Play X, X-2 is absolutely garbage