As a little kid when I played this game for the first time this opening sent me. Not only did I like looking at the pretty girls but the way the world looked I was completely immersed in the fantasy.
Finally someone commented it I just notice this question mark after watching it like 5 times in a row its amazing never notice that when im 13 yrs old now im 27
I remember seeing this scene for the first time in 2004. This was the first game I've played on the PS2, and I was extremely impressed by the realism of the graphics, to the point that I thought that they were real people. Little did I know that consoles would raise the bar again.
I used to and still know most of the choreography that "Yuna" does on stage. I'd always sing along and dance around to the opening, and when I later found it on UA-cam I replayed this damn scene so much! I got the game when it first came out and still adore it. My first ff game was ff x so while this game gave me whiplash, it was still so awesome
Ffx caught you off guard with that amazing blitzball cutscene with the hard rock in the background. You play ffx2 and this cutscene catches you off guard too and its bopping.
you know whats crazy? This is happening two years after she rather publicly helped topple a religion she herself was a firm believer in until like the day before. Basicly in two years this land went from a machine fearing theocracy. To holding pop concerts with guitarists riding flying platforms.
This was the first final fantasy game I ever played (the marketing was genius) and I got it as an easter basket present; so it has a very sentimental value in my heart forever. The feeling of seeing how amazing this opening scene was, I'll never forget ❤
When this game was released I remember I was very sick, about 10 years old, home from school for two weeks in bad winter weather. This game changed my life, nursed my way beyond a full recovery. Thank you Square
Tbh, when I started FFX-2 right after FFX, my first reaction was disbelief. Like from the bittersweet and melancholic ending of FFX, to this... pop comedy intro. The change in tone was so jarring. I mean looking back I get why things are different. Some maturity and age has taught me that change happens and it’s not surprising nowadays for people and places to change so drastically when something equally drastic has happened (Sin’s death). Sadly after finishing FFX-2, I never replayed it even as I continued replaying FFX.
This goes to the category of “English dub than the original dub.” They even got 1,000 words right while adding more effects to the scene and I felt the emotions! The voice dubbing is very good too.
I'd call English and Japanese songs for this game on par. Which is pretty huge praise. Love both versions of this and Thousand Words. Only other game I have that with is Kingdom Hearts 2 and its opening track Sanctuary/Passion
You know… it just dawned on me. Rikku should be a legend at this point, especially at a “Yuna” concert, she shouldn’t be so rudely asked to leave/intimidated by security.
@@NLaos I disagree. There were plenty of guys that bought it just for the eye candy of Yuna and Rikku. There is a lot of provocative attire throughout the whole game though.
so what gt you that way? abuse, anime, it was something, if you can be even the slightest bit honest with yourself. Also this is a perfect example of stuff you don't need to say to anyone, ever, especially since you implied you aren't in the closet anymore. Oh good Ole facebook and anything similar getting everyone to use comment sections as if they were a diary. Honestly suprised there hasn't been a massive uptik in tourretes (probably misspelled) since everyone just says or airs any thoughts that enters their mind AS it enters it..... but yeah needless to sat you have other issues, as do all who are "similar" to you. Very sad
I have been thinking about this game, and this song in specific for a couple of weeks now and today was in my recomendations. Loved the game many years ago!
This was technically my first FF game aside from what I saw in KH. My best friend and I both got copies of FFX2 from a GameStop for like 4 bucks and popped it in to see this opening. Holy shit, what a gateway drug. I’ll never forget that night LOL
what i love about the character cutout shots for yuna, rikku and payne, is that yuna has that ? that slides faintly behind her name. having that double meaning of "how the heck did yuna, THE SUMMONER FROM THE PREVIOUS INSTALMENT OF 10, just do this magical girl transformation sequence" and the fact that this isn't even yuna to begin with
I am a proud homosexual that can literally describe everything that happens in this scene as it plays while blindfolded closed just listening to the audio. I fucking LOVE this game
Started FFX-2 for the first time today. Nearly lost the first battle because I expected it to be turn-based like FFX and I'm over here searching youtube for this song instead of battling
This game was actually the first one I played on ps2 i think. I was attracted to the cover (as i saw beautiful yuna) and begged my parents to buy it. I love this game so much. I could changed outfit so many times and the songs..damnn. Then I realized that i watched part 2 of a story so I bought finally fantasy X after that. I realized not much people like Final fantasy X-2 but for me it was revolutionary.
F or a long time I was very mixed on FFX-2 but then I learned to appreciate this what I would call very 2000s spice girls girlpower energy the game had.
This is the BEST opening song from any of the FF games. The title theme to FFX-2 is also one of the best pieces of orchestral music I have ever heard ... I wish there were lyrics to it.
I thought Final Fantasy X-2 was Charlie's Angels. Then I finally got to play X and I realized that X-2 is still weird, but I'm happy Yuna found happiness...
Before UA-cam was a thing....I would restart the game over and over to hear and watch this video because it was so awesome!
Same. I remembered this song vaguely until I found it here.
Same honestly
My sis and I did the same together 😂
I love how unapologetically girly this one was
haha yup. Good ol 2003 days.
Glad I wasn't the only one. 😅
Curse of this song, no one can ask me "what can I do for you?" Without me hearing this song.
Shit, I thought I was the only one! 😂
Thank god there’s others
Try being in customer service
Almost 10 years of that feeling!
I think about barkeep asking me that so I can take a nap
Same ahahah i remember playing at age 11 and I’m 29 now and this song gets stuck in my head to this day
remember holding my phone to the tv to record the song on my flip phone LOL good days
The song, the fit, the choreo... Yuna was serving!!!
Leblanc 👀
@@drfudge208exactly! Yuna did shit. 🤣🤣🤣 This was all Leblanc, “remember that name well, loves”. 😂
This was Leblanc in dressspere
But in the end it wasn't Yuna it was an imposter
I thought it was Lynn?
Lmao tb to when my little sister would literally make me start the game all over just for this scene in particular. Nostalgic
I did it too xD 3 times. What can i say? Is a addictive song
@@diegosalazar793 I used to restart over and over just to listen to this song
As a little kid when I played this game for the first time this opening sent me. Not only did I like looking at the pretty girls but the way the world looked I was completely immersed in the fantasy.
This was me making my brother play it over and over 😂😂
Mine did it too lol
This intro is so iconic. Also, the subtle hint that wasn’t really Yuna with the “?” mark popping up at her intro screen? Genius.
With the actual Yuna or this one? Because this one doesn't have it.
@@Zonefire15 it pops up here right after it shows her name
And the black outfit! Feels too dark and brooding for Yuna
Finally someone commented it I just notice this question mark after watching it like 5 times in a row its amazing never notice that when im 13 yrs old now im 27
Wow. Played this game when it came out and never noticed that question mark lol. IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW
“I can’t hear you, I can’t hear you!” Boom. Title very well done
This was my first final fantasy I ever played! The memories...
Same
Same
Same
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Starting with X2? Genius. Must be confusing
Really, we should be thanking Leblanc for this opening. She put this concert together and did it herself.
Yeah she sings and dances better than Yuna apparently
Thank you ! I thought I was the only one who was saying this 😂
Come to think of it what did she do all that work for?
@@ginae.7422to steal the dresssphere grid
@@ginae.7422for the drama
I remember seeing this scene for the first time in 2004. This was the first game I've played on the PS2, and I was extremely impressed by the realism of the graphics, to the point that I thought that they were real people. Little did I know that consoles would raise the bar again.
Fun fact: part of that realism is that they did mo-cap of an actual person dancing for the dance Yuna does here.
@@marhawkman303Let me guess: the mocap was done by the singer Jade from the band Sweetbox?
@@rmnhn No, Koda Kumi, the lady who sings the original Japanese version.
@@marhawkman303 Ah. Her
It's crazy how SE continues to raise the bar with the graphics. I can even see a massive difference between FF7Remake and FF7Rebirth.
I used to and still know most of the choreography that "Yuna" does on stage. I'd always sing along and dance around to the opening, and when I later found it on UA-cam I replayed this damn scene so much! I got the game when it first came out and still adore it. My first ff game was ff x so while this game gave me whiplash, it was still so awesome
You mean Leblanc
I wish this version was on spotify
Koda Kumi version
NOT AS GOOD BUT WELL TAKE IT@@robertoquintero5200
just use a youtube to mp3 converter/downloader
@@robertoquintero5200I just looked. The lyrics are totally different in the game
Ffx caught you off guard with that amazing blitzball cutscene with the hard rock in the background. You play ffx2 and this cutscene catches you off guard too and its bopping.
This opening really went off like that so iconic 🖤🖤🖤
This is still one of the best intros for a Final Fantasy game ever made.
you know whats crazy? This is happening two years after she rather publicly helped topple a religion she herself was a firm believer in until like the day before. Basicly in two years this land went from a machine fearing theocracy. To holding pop concerts with guitarists riding flying platforms.
@@MrUsoutlaw Music gets people unite, i guess? lol
I KNOW!!!
this is still one of the best things in the world
100%
Honestly this would be a badass concert idk I think I’d go to this.
This was the first final fantasy game I ever played (the marketing was genius) and I got it as an easter basket present; so it has a very sentimental value in my heart forever. The feeling of seeing how amazing this opening scene was, I'll never forget ❤
My first FF game was the og FF10, but it was an Easter Basket present like FF10-2 was for you. Such a huge key memory!
Oh boy…this is peak childhood for me. What a time to be alive
When this game was released I remember I was very sick, about 10 years old, home from school for two weeks in bad winter weather. This game changed my life, nursed my way beyond a full recovery. Thank you Square
Man, I wanna cry from Nostalgia, remembering a time where I didn't have to worry about every little thing as a kid.
one of the best openers for a video game
This was always so fuckin hype when starting a new game 😅
Tbh, when I started FFX-2 right after FFX, my first reaction was disbelief. Like from the bittersweet and melancholic ending of FFX, to this... pop comedy intro. The change in tone was so jarring. I mean looking back I get why things are different. Some maturity and age has taught me that change happens and it’s not surprising nowadays for people and places to change so drastically when something equally drastic has happened (Sin’s death). Sadly after finishing FFX-2, I never replayed it even as I continued replaying FFX.
This goes to the category of “English dub than the original dub.” They even got 1,000 words right while adding more effects to the scene and I felt the emotions! The voice dubbing is very good too.
1000 words absolutely kills me. If I watch the video of that scene instead of just listening to the song, I _will_ tear up. Every time.
I'd call English and Japanese songs for this game on par. Which is pretty huge praise. Love both versions of this and Thousand Words. Only other game I have that with is Kingdom Hearts 2 and its opening track Sanctuary/Passion
Ya know I first thought to myself "Since when did YUNA start taking up popstar singing?!" lol
Well, what else is she gonna do? Oh wait, loads of things now that she's not high summoner.
Mar Hawkman she IS a high summoner. The only LIVING high summoner in the world. High summoners are those that defeat sin.
@@rachelmoney4730 Well, I'd argue that she is a FORMER High Summoner, since she didn't use that special job class to defeat Sin.
@@marhawkman303 Well true that, except that was NOT really Yuna, which was a shame too cause she did have talent! lol
@@gibbs615 Hmm technically true, but apparently Leblanc somehow copied Yuna's voice, and we know Yuna can sing since she does 1000 words alter
2:06 This was always my favorite part of the song!!
Me to
The chorus? Okay.
The nostalgia... I've been remembering this for years 😭
OMG I USED TO BE OBSESSED WITH THIS WHEN I WAS YOUNGER SJNHNJNN
Never noticed the "?" above Yuna's name at 1:34 until now!
Ah, thats because it wasn't Yuna. It was Leblanc, she had stolen one of Yuna's dress spheres
@@andrewvelazquez7179 I know. But I didn't know until then about the "?"
@@forklift1712 oh ok makes sense
Yeah you have to pay attention before it disappears since it's only there for like a second
I can't say how many times I replayed this part in the game💛
Considering the amount of time the devs had, they produced an absolute masterpiece
One of the most underrated openings in a game I think
@PhantomXero1x true
I unironically think the drumbot is the coolest thing in this entire clip.
Drumbot is just Vegnagun after chilling out for 1000 years
The fact that even the lyrics have depth --- everything in this intro is PERFECTION.
We just don't make art like this anymore.
You know… it just dawned on me. Rikku should be a legend at this point, especially at a “Yuna” concert, she shouldn’t be so rudely asked to leave/intimidated by security.
The Chad Final Fantasy X opening with Otherworld vs. The Chad Final Fantasy X-2 opening with Real Emotion
Both songs slap
I also had Yuna as my background on my Xanga back then, LOL!
1:33 always love the ? sign to show it was not Real Yuna.
i love this so much i remember getting this game for christmas when it came out and playing it all night. ah nostalgia
Rikku: It’s showtime girls.
Me as a kid: *gay mode activated*
This game was created for the girls and the gays 🤪
@@NLaos I disagree. There were plenty of guys that bought it just for the eye candy of Yuna and Rikku. There is a lot of provocative attire throughout the whole game though.
Cerd71 its a joke
@@C71-m1l r/whoosh
@@NLaos Not really, it was created for Japanese FF fan boys and Idol fans.
I was a closeted gay boy on my 15's. I would lock myself in my room and do the choreo flawlesly.
so what gt you that way? abuse, anime, it was something, if you can be even the slightest bit honest with yourself. Also this is a perfect example of stuff you don't need to say to anyone, ever, especially since you implied you aren't in the closet anymore. Oh good Ole facebook and anything similar getting everyone to use comment sections as if they were a diary. Honestly suprised there hasn't been a massive uptik in tourretes (probably misspelled) since everyone just says or airs any thoughts that enters their mind AS it enters it..... but yeah needless to sat you have other issues, as do all who are "similar" to you. Very sad
I have been thinking about this game, and this song in specific for a couple of weeks now and today was in my recomendations. Loved the game many years ago!
The gag is Leblanc put on a killer show as Yuna!
THE FULL GAG!!!!
Gagged, snatched, gooped and pooped
It’s the gag of the season!!!!
@@revostepify
It's the gag of a lifetime
Even now I still don't understand why she did that XD
Years later my middle school heart still loves this song + game
This was technically my first FF game aside from what I saw in KH. My best friend and I both got copies of FFX2 from a GameStop for like 4 bucks and popped it in to see this opening. Holy shit, what a gateway drug. I’ll never forget that night LOL
This was my first Final Fantasy game.
I still love this game after all these years and love this music video! I have this song and the 1000 years one saved to my UA-cam playlist 👍🏻👏🏻🎶💕🔥
what i love about the character cutout shots for yuna, rikku and payne, is that yuna has that ? that slides faintly behind her name. having that double meaning of "how the heck did yuna, THE SUMMONER FROM THE PREVIOUS INSTALMENT OF 10, just do this magical girl transformation sequence"
and the fact that this isn't even yuna to begin with
Thank you for the wonderful fanservice, Leblanc!
she ate
Yuna said category 2 in 1 high summoner pop princess realness !!
But that's not Yuna 🤣
this game always makes me sing every time ❤
It's Showtime Girls :D
"Y, R, P. In position." God I loved this game. My brothers gave me endless shit but I just threw on my ultimate dressspheres and shit on them ;D
The marketing for this game was perfect. I don't remember any other English tv ad for a PS2 game other than this one
man the memories from this one was the very first game i ever played
It's the last one I played.
Tetsuya Nomura presents:
Cid's Angels.
Who's listening to this song in February 2024?
👍
Sept 2024 here lol
October 2024
19 October 2024
Soooooooo much memories.... My brain....
21 years later and i still love this. Rikku still be my crush haha
i loved this as a kid
Y’all, I just finished FFX on steam and about to start FX2. Thanks for reminding me this is what I have to look forward to.
i needed this its been awhile
Wasn't really prepared for this after ffx opened with Otherworld but I am, was and always will be here for it
Amazing
one of the best video game openings ever and then from then on there jsut a really fun game
We need another remaster for this
Ikr
Rikku is Bae
Don't care what people say, FFX-2 is a great game
yes, one of the best or the best FF game for me.
FFX was a great game.
A dancer so good she will send you straight to heaven.
10 and 10-2 were such a trip back in the day
I am a proud homosexual that can literally describe everything that happens in this scene as it plays while blindfolded closed just listening to the audio. I fucking LOVE this game
Do you really need to mention that you're a homosexual?
Lmaooooo
It’s the “it’s showtime, girls” for me
@@edgaredelweiss this opening was a cultural reset for the gays, so yes.
Yuna threw the first brick at stonewall
this is by far the best opening for any final fantasy out there this song rocks big time
Yunaaaaaaa. It's been so long. 💕
Leblanc MOTHERED this so hard
Iconic
This deserves a movie
Such a good intro omg i still remember this game
What an OPENING
Started FFX-2 for the first time today. Nearly lost the first battle because I expected it to be turn-based like FFX and I'm over here searching youtube for this song instead of battling
Paine! Was and is still my favorite member of the Gullwings!
Love how great the graphics were. Even in 2023, it look like it could of came out yesterday.
This game was actually the first one I played on ps2 i think. I was attracted to the cover (as i saw beautiful yuna) and begged my parents to buy it. I love this game so much. I could changed outfit so many times and the songs..damnn. Then I realized that i watched part 2 of a story so I bought finally fantasy X after that. I realized not much people like Final fantasy X-2 but for me it was revolutionary.
F or a long time I was very mixed on FFX-2 but then I learned to appreciate this what I would call very 2000s spice girls girlpower energy the game had.
This song gave me, and then cured my cancer.
Final fantasy 10 and 10-2 were the best I swear.
I revisit this several times a year but played the game 18 years ago (I’m 24),, why can’t I get away from this song lol
Idk.. Are you gay like me?
Final Fantasy X and X2 was PEAK Squarenix
Love this scene
1:55 I find it amusing that in the middle of the stakeout Rikku can’t help but vibe along
It's riku we're talking here, of course she would be vibing
A camp classic
This is the BEST opening song from any of the FF games. The title theme to FFX-2 is also one of the best pieces of orchestral music I have ever heard ... I wish there were lyrics to it.
This song was my childhood gay awakening 😂
Reallllll
This game turned the freakin' frogs gay.
It was my first love as a child. I didn't know how to explain what I felt, but that was it.
I fell in love with una
I thought Final Fantasy X-2 was Charlie's Angels. Then I finally got to play X and I realized that X-2 is still weird, but I'm happy Yuna found happiness...
The game was mid asf but this song lives rent free in my head
I think this opening sequence may have been my gay awakening. T'was indeed a slay as they say
Sweetbox such a underated group. They did songs on this and silent hill 3
I remember this
This should be a SuperBowl half time show.
There's something so beautiful about ps2 graphics, I can never explain it but sometimes it just beats the PS3 and 4, maybe it's the nostalgia
THIS GAME IS ICONICC 😻
Ts still amazing after all these years