One of my favorite Final Fantasy games, back when it came out on PS2 I was blown away by the graphics and I was definitely able to understand the story more so it stuck with me through the years. Just downloaded the HD remaster on my PS5 a month ago so I’ll get to it after Rebirth. Thanks for the video!
My memories "although vague" of Final Fantasy X comes with spending time with my stepbrother when we were kids, back then i didn't knew anything about the franchise, it was my first exposure to it though i started playing Final Fantasy when i was like 16 back in highschool. Final Fantasy X had a lot of things that really stand out and still hold up today, my favorite of those being the scenery of some places like Zanarkand, Killika, Besaid, Guadosalam, Bikanel and The Calm Lands. P.S Based Teedus.
@@RetroWarsuk The never ending war XD for me it will always be Teedus since in the game he's never called by it's name and since it got name dropped "to my knowledge" was in the Dissidia games and was called as such so it got stuck with me ever since. Same thing with Winona from Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire & Emerald though i always called her Winoa since i was a kid due to me always smashing the A button too fast so that what i captured from her name and has also stuck with me since then.
My personal favorite FF game of all time together with 8. Yuna is arguably the best written female character in all of fiction. The world and lore of this game is INSANE. And it's so enjoyable! I still launch it just to play blitzball once in a while, or to fight some tough monsters. Love it to death!!
Auron's return to the battlefield during the Blitzball tournament and then his speech at the Yunalesca boss battle cemented him as my top favorite. His stoicism, mixed with the occasional gruffness and his mystique made him one of the best characters, if not the best.
I’m enjoying your retrospective so far and I’m about halfway through now, just wanted to point out one additional detail about Wakka that adds to his hatred of Al Bhed. The sword he gives Tidus was the sword Wakka got for his brother, and it’s clearly a really good well made sword, yet, Chappu ditched the sword, took an Al Bhed weapon, didn’t pray like a good Yevonite, then died when his weapon didn’t save him. So Wakka also attaches the death of his brother to the Al Bhed which adds even more fuel to the religious fire.
@@RetroWarsukCan confirm it is. Can also confirm a new subscriber. Final Fantasy X was actually my first Final Fantasy game. It was also one of the earliest games to make me cry as well so glad that isn’t just me.
Absolutely sublime retrospective. Just started this gem of a game again and came across this video, very glad that I did. Time to binge the rest of your content and check out the podcast, cheers! 🍻
@@RetroWarsuk Just listened to the FFX episode and fucking hell, are you two gents ever speaking my language. Guess I've got a backlog to work through haha, that's my RPG grinding background audio sorted for the next fuck knows how long. Cheers! 🍻
@@RetroWarsuk .. You obviously failed to love or understand God the father, much less his enemies so horribly much.. But that lack of understanding doenst subtract from reality & The fact that Scientific proof DOES exist of them. & That he is the one remaining God of this world & His son who have SUCH control over it, That even fantasy worlds are theirs. Whether you like it or not. +
I'm with you... Games full of water... tide...... Tidus ...I'll join you on the massacre on this hilltop ...you can stick your teedus with your ket shee😂
Subjective of course but I still love it and consider if the last true gem of Final Fantasy. I enjoyed FFXII more as adult now than a teen but felt a bit more bogged down with plot and the characters and music weren't as memorable in my opinion. However I loved FFVII as much as anyone but VIII and IX along with X are absolutely some of my favorite games hands down even 25+ years later.
i think literally the only reason all of these 90s & 2000s FMVs look so good because they’re the lighting is extremely blown out & gritty… to this day this gritty realism has never been captured on typical cutting-edge PS5 in-game-rendered imagery… everything looks dark & manikin like
Final Fantasy X is an absolute MASTERPIECE, i remember back in the day i was very dissapointed with the art design, FF8 kinda dissapointed me with the story and 9 with the art, then came to love them, with 10 was the same, couldn´t stand Tidus as a main protagonist, i wanted every FF to be FF7, BUT once i played to the end i was SHOCKED, is a FUCKING MASTERPIECE perfect 10/10, characters, story, dialogue, music, graphics, system 10/10 absolute. The game was HEAVY inspired in SHENMUE 2, the asian theme, the music, the voices and vibe, they wanted too to show the power of Ps2 with the details vs the power of Dreamcast with shenmue. I recommend for those who are fans of FF that don´t like it, to finish it and then talk, the way Yuna and Tidus talk, are so perfect like teenagers, the characters are all perfect, i love this game
spoilers but the whole way yuna ends sin from being reborn is a crazy chance if auron didnt die that soon, tidus wouldnt have been brought to spira if seymour didnt kill his dad at that time, they wouldnt have questioned the traditions of yevon if the aurochs won a few games wakka may have not been that interested in befriending tidus cuz that mf dont look like chappu if everything wasnt a checkovs gun/ work of fiction yuna woulda just sacrificed her life and tidus woulda continued to have a semi normal immigrant life until ultimately killed by sin
A claim kinda is a good thing tho... means square has its an eye on this game which kind of eludes to the rumor being true that square has a ff x-3 in the works
@RetroWarsuk with their recent track record tho... idk not saying 15 and 16 weren't good but I dont find there to be as much replayability in the newer titles or maybe I'm just not into the stories anymore? I'm unsure but something just feels off, with that being said I've loved ff7 remake but mainly because of nostalgia I'm not sure why they decided to stretch the midgar section out as long as they did I also haven't played rebirth so I'm sure it answered alot of people's questions but 🤷♀️
Unfortunate thing about the HD Remasters is the character models are actually worse than the ps2 game because they lost the finished ones from the ps2 in an office fire and never bothered to fix them for the remaster It's the type of thing ehere you might not notice unless you compare them side by side or have played the original a bunch tho Kinda like how Halo MCC was originally built off of the inferior PC port of Halo Combat Evolved, with worse effects and graphics and such, until enough people pointed it out and 343 finally tixed it.
This game made me realize I don't really like JRPGs. I was blown away by the game at first, but when I realized there was no world map and the game was on rails I started hating it. Even the games with world maps are basically on rails with the illusion of freedom and I don't like that anymore now that I've played games like boulders gate and fall out. I kind of despise these games now because it's just excessive fashion and swords that look like they what a toddler thinks would kill a dragon. These games were good back when they were pushing the boundaries of RPGs, but I try and play them now and I'm bored to hell. The stories aren't all that great and they are extremely easy.
Final Fantasy 9 wasn´t even suppose to be a final fantasy game, it moved then to be one and they made it to be cliche retrospective of the classics, there were 3 projects at the same time, FF 9 for ps1, FF 10 for ps2 and FF 11 also for ps2, those 3 were announced at the same time, you can speculate that The Bouncer might have been a FF game that was cancelled and remade to be just a lunch game to show the graphics of the ps2., Squre-Enix used to operate like that., they announced FF 13, FF 14, vs 13 and Type 0 at the same time too in 2006
@@pharaohmonkey1616 Literally nothing stopping you from going watching something else. You don't speak for the rest of us when you said we don't give a damn
One of my favorite Final Fantasy games, back when it came out on PS2 I was blown away by the graphics and I was definitely able to understand the story more so it stuck with me through the years. Just downloaded the HD remaster on my PS5 a month ago so I’ll get to it after Rebirth. Thanks for the video!
Glad you enjoyed it. I am looking forward to jumping back into X-2
FFX’s FMVs hold up so frickin well. The First Sending lives rent free in my head. And I’m not even nostalgic for this game.
That scene is god like.....like one of the best ever in gaming
A new hour of Retro Wars, what a treat
You should listen to the podcast. It's never a treat
My memories "although vague" of Final Fantasy X comes with spending time with my stepbrother when we were kids, back then i didn't knew anything about the franchise, it was my first exposure to it though i started playing Final Fantasy when i was like 16 back in highschool.
Final Fantasy X had a lot of things that really stand out and still hold up today, my favorite of those being the scenery of some places like Zanarkand, Killika, Besaid, Guadosalam, Bikanel and The Calm Lands.
P.S Based Teedus.
We need a teedus tydus war
@@RetroWarsuk The never ending war XD for me it will always be Teedus since in the game he's never called by it's name and since it got name dropped "to my knowledge" was in the Dissidia games and was called as such so it got stuck with me ever since. Same thing with Winona from Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire & Emerald though i always called her Winoa since i was a kid due to me always smashing the A button too fast so that what i captured from her name and has also stuck with me since then.
My personal favorite FF game of all time together with 8. Yuna is arguably the best written female character in all of fiction. The world and lore of this game is INSANE. And it's so enjoyable! I still launch it just to play blitzball once in a while, or to fight some tough monsters. Love it to death!!
Of all fiction....that....that is big claim
Auron's return to the battlefield during the Blitzball tournament and then his speech at the Yunalesca boss battle cemented him as my top favorite. His stoicism, mixed with the occasional gruffness and his mystique made him one of the best characters, if not the best.
Yeh I have reheard that speech a lot through doing this recording, what a hero
I’m enjoying your retrospective so far and I’m about halfway through now, just wanted to point out one additional detail about Wakka that adds to his hatred of Al Bhed. The sword he gives Tidus was the sword Wakka got for his brother, and it’s clearly a really good well made sword, yet, Chappu ditched the sword, took an Al Bhed weapon, didn’t pray like a good Yevonite, then died when his weapon didn’t save him. So Wakka also attaches the death of his brother to the Al Bhed which adds even more fuel to the religious fire.
I only hope the second half is as good
@@RetroWarsukCan confirm it is. Can also confirm a new subscriber. Final Fantasy X was actually my first Final Fantasy game. It was also one of the earliest games to make me cry as well so glad that isn’t just me.
@@corevo7570 thank you that means alot . If you want more stupidity have a listen to the main show
Absolutely sublime retrospective. Just started this gem of a game again and came across this video, very glad that I did. Time to binge the rest of your content and check out the podcast, cheers! 🍻
Thanks mate, enjoy, new Final fantasy tactics advance coming soon, have fun with the podcast my friend, let me know what you think
@@RetroWarsuk Just listened to the FFX episode and fucking hell, are you two gents ever speaking my language. Guess I've got a backlog to work through haha, that's my RPG grinding background audio sorted for the next fuck knows how long. Cheers! 🍻
@@kingaurelian ha ha ha have fun mate
It’s hard to win a game when you don’t have an anti gravity water generation sphere to practice in, in your arm pit of a village.
No excuses.....they lack discipline
Literally go swim out in the ocean and practice
@@RetroWarsuk .. You obviously failed to love or understand God the father, much less his enemies so horribly much.. But that lack of understanding doenst subtract from reality & The fact that Scientific proof DOES exist of them. & That he is the one remaining God of this world & His son who have SUCH control over it, That even fantasy worlds are theirs. Whether you like it or not. +
It’s Ty-dus, I will die on this hill.
You may lose the battle sir
I'm with you... Games full of water... tide...... Tidus ...I'll join you on the massacre on this hilltop ...you can stick your teedus with your ket shee😂
I'm with you on this..games full of water.... Tide.... Tide-us ....tidus
Stick your teedus with your ket shee 😂
I hope the hill is a comfy resting place
Sorry bud, it’s Ty-dus. The voice actor, James Arnold Taylor, confirmed the proper pronunciation of the name 😂
Good timing. I just finished the game. What an experience. FFX is one of those genre defining experiences
I was just waiting for you to finish the game before releasing this. I will take the camera down now.
Subjective of course but I still love it and consider if the last true gem of Final Fantasy. I enjoyed FFXII more as adult now than a teen but felt a bit more bogged down with plot and the characters and music weren't as memorable in my opinion. However I loved FFVII as much as anyone but VIII and IX along with X are absolutely some of my favorite games hands down even 25+ years later.
I am looking forward to playing 12 again, although god knows when that will be
i think literally the only reason all of these 90s & 2000s FMVs look so good because they’re the lighting is extremely blown out & gritty… to this day this gritty realism has never been captured on typical cutting-edge PS5 in-game-rendered imagery… everything looks dark & manikin like
Final Fantasy X is an absolute MASTERPIECE, i remember back in the day i was very dissapointed with the art design, FF8 kinda dissapointed me with the story and 9 with the art, then came to love them, with 10 was the same, couldn´t stand Tidus as a main protagonist, i wanted every FF to be FF7, BUT once i played to the end i was SHOCKED, is a FUCKING MASTERPIECE perfect 10/10, characters, story, dialogue, music, graphics, system 10/10 absolute. The game was HEAVY inspired in SHENMUE 2, the asian theme, the music, the voices and vibe, they wanted too to show the power of Ps2 with the details vs the power of Dreamcast with shenmue. I recommend for those who are fans of FF that don´t like it, to finish it and then talk, the way Yuna and Tidus talk, are so perfect like teenagers, the characters are all perfect, i love this game
I am so excited to go back and start FFX2 to be honest
Gl homie
I don't know what GI means....but thank you...I am not with the kids these days
spoilers but the whole way yuna ends sin from being reborn is a crazy chance
if auron didnt die that soon, tidus wouldnt have been brought to spira
if seymour didnt kill his dad at that time, they wouldnt have questioned the traditions of yevon
if the aurochs won a few games wakka may have not been that interested in befriending tidus cuz that mf dont look like chappu
if everything wasnt a checkovs gun/ work of fiction yuna woulda just sacrificed her life and tidus woulda continued to have a semi normal immigrant life until ultimately killed by sin
Huge gamble....... beyond belief
A claim kinda is a good thing tho... means square has its an eye on this game which kind of eludes to the rumor being true that square has a ff x-3 in the works
I can kinda see FFX3 happening in the future....because...money
@RetroWarsuk with their recent track record tho... idk not saying 15 and 16 weren't good but I dont find there to be as much replayability in the newer titles or maybe I'm just not into the stories anymore? I'm unsure but something just feels off, with that being said I've loved ff7 remake but mainly because of nostalgia I'm not sure why they decided to stretch the midgar section out as long as they did I also haven't played rebirth so I'm sure it answered alot of people's questions but 🤷♀️
Unfortunate thing about the HD Remasters is the character models are actually worse than the ps2 game because they lost the finished ones from the ps2 in an office fire and never bothered to fix them for the remaster
It's the type of thing ehere you might not notice unless you compare them side by side or have played the original a bunch tho
Kinda like how Halo MCC was originally built off of the inferior PC port of Halo Combat Evolved, with worse effects and graphics and such, until enough people pointed it out and 343 finally tixed it.
Goat FF!!! Bahhhhhh! Goat@ bahhhhhhhhh!!!!
ooooooo that could cause a war
This game made me realize I don't really like JRPGs. I was blown away by the game at first, but when I realized there was no world map and the game was on rails I started hating it. Even the games with world maps are basically on rails with the illusion of freedom and I don't like that anymore now that I've played games like boulders gate and fall out. I kind of despise these games now because it's just excessive fashion and swords that look like they what a toddler thinks would kill a dragon.
These games were good back when they were pushing the boundaries of RPGs, but I try and play them now and I'm bored to hell. The stories aren't all that great and they are extremely easy.
@@wingusdingus9447 I just played Bucky o hare for the podcast....man oh man ...NES hard
Final Fantasy 9 wasn´t even suppose to be a final fantasy game, it moved then to be one and they made it to be cliche retrospective of the classics, there were 3 projects at the same time, FF 9 for ps1, FF 10 for ps2 and FF 11 also for ps2, those 3 were announced at the same time, you can speculate that The Bouncer might have been a FF game that was cancelled and remade to be just a lunch game to show the graphics of the ps2., Squre-Enix used to operate like that., they announced FF 13, FF 14, vs 13 and Type 0 at the same time too in 2006
oh no the bouncer........do not start with that. I covered that for episode 52 of the show to celebrate one year
err we just gonna skip 9?
@@pastaswithnosauce3621 ha ha I hadn't releases it on the show yet
Enough of these retrospectives!
Ok I'll stop now
@@RetroWarsuk great, thanks. I despise this trend of way too long videos that are a “retrospective” no one gives a damn
@@pharaohmonkey1616 Literally nothing stopping you from going watching something else. You don't speak for the rest of us when you said we don't give a damn
@@shaunmclorie5929 nah, the trend must end
I love these videos. It’s the lore and other peoples perspectives that I enjoy hearing. Apparently you do to because you’re here 😂😂