The 2 youths who fight alongside Garik Ronso are vulnerable to Stop, so if your Songstress knows Brake-Dance, she can inflict Stop on them and take them out of the fight completely.
If you learn the accuracy and evasion sing abilities, each move gives an instant +6 stack for each. Every other song only gives a +1 stack. Might be helpful for Yuna’s doggo. Loving this series!
Definitely got lucky with the UA-cam algorithm by having your content be suggested. Loving the series. "What the boys are up to in the holes" killed me. 😂
Here's my thing: the Dark Aeons could've been a FASCINATING plot point. We know that the Farplane has been corrupted, so having the Fayth became so as well would have worked and provided for some extremely poignant moments of pain, reflection, and development for Yuna, as well as opportunities to expand (instead of defy) the world's lore and post-game evolution...but the developers utilized them as moments of action instead of emotion. Given proper contextualization, they could have made for some truly memorable and heart-wrenching bosses! But alas, we're left only to imagine better possibilities.
Your combination of memes and sarcasm really make these videos enjoyable and funny AF. I hope they remake X-2 in the future because you can see a lot of work went into the battle and transitions, but they just ran out of time to perfect the game. Probably wanted to ride X's coat tails as quickly as they could.
Hmm... I think if FFX had simply stood alone with no sequel, I would have been okay. Even with the teaser scene at the end with Tidus, I could have accepted it as a "leave it to your imagination" scenario. That said, I don't mind the base concept of X-2. Tidus is gone, Yuna doesn't quite know how to move on, the world is picking a fight with itself, and suddenly she sees a sphere that looks like him and this leads her to journey around for more clues - and of course, being the High Summoner, people are eager to wrap her up into their problems along the way. All of that is just fine for a plot for a sequel. I might have backed away from the whole, "the world is going to end" trope, because it doesn't *always* have to be the end of the world, but okay. Whatever. It's the whole pop music video feel that throws it all off. I'm not sure the audience would have wanted another emotionally-wrenching experience (especially if it couldn't live up to the first), but the fact that everything is a joke up until the last hours just knocks the wind out of the whole plot. Also.... the CommSphere chapter. Good lord, that absolute abomination of a chapter, forcing you to sit through endless dialogue and no gameplay. That's the kind of garbage you put in a game when you're padding for runtime - and what a dick move, making those scenes count for fractions of a percent of completion, and only if you sit through them fully. Just... wow. This is an example of something with a lot of good ideas in really awkward packaging. If Square had been given another year or two, I wonder what we would have gotten?
I kinda figured the dark aeons returning are like "there's a disturbance in the force" kinda thing since Vegnagun and Shuyin went into the Farplane, which I assume is where all pyreflies and Fayth went to in the Eternal Calm
I recently fired up my old X-2 new game plus save to try to max all the Dresspheres and aside from Gun Mage (because getting all the monster techs is just annoying) the Trainer is all I have left since it's so painfully easy to miss... I'm kind of dreading having 3 Trainers out in battle at once after watching this.
Just one question! Why don't you use the garment grids that give you access to other abilities and spells? Is it against your rules to change dressphere in battle to achieve all the bonus of the garments until you go back to the authorized dressphere? Btw, I know we all forget it easily, but Valefor's faith is a girl, so he is not a boy.
These are so fun to watch. I love that I’m getting a recap of this game, drag queen memes and reactions, AND a challenge. All at the same time! Keep it up! 👏🏽
Matador Song and Jitterbug (evasion and accuracy songs) don't even need to stack, they go to 10 stages instantly. It saves you a lot of time compared to doing darkness dance all the time to avoid attacks. Also Garick ad his guards are not immune to stop. you can use the stop dance as well on them and save lots of time.
I'd be fine with the dark aeons if they had a reason to exist, like the last remnants of the fayth fighting to not fade away, but we never really get that.
I have had battles where Kogoro is stuck in one attack animation for like 2 minutes. If the enemy moves so much as a hair the hit doesn't count, and if it's a fast attacker it is almost impossible to hit.
Just to say for the fight against the ronso that they can get weaker if you give good answer to the ransos on the first two chapters. I remember when i fought them there was only 2 of them and i’m pretty sure there was some ability that they don’t use and maybe weaker in strengh
FF is good at not telling you anything. Similar to Battle Cry, you can stack stat boosts in FFX. Cheer, Jinx, Aim, etc. They stack up to 5 times and really help in certain fights.
I played this about a month after FFX recently and didn't mind the reused assets. I enjoyed seeing the same places again and fighting the aeons. Of course there is a lot in the story I dislike but overall I enjoyed the game quite a bit. Just really like Yuna as a character in both games.
If I'm not mistaken, I don't think Paine had the issues of the pet missing as much in the trainer class. Since hers is a falcon and doesn't have to run. Glitching specifically. Idk if the accuracy changes.
Short thing on Shell and Protect: If it worked to reduce damage on an attack you have the effect showing up around the character as you could see with Thor's Hammer. But yea Aerospark ignores any defensive abilities like the original Dark Ixion did^^
I think it is both cool and lame that they brought back the aeons. I think they did a good job with the writing, and how Yuna is concerned about all of them - but it makes sense to me that the aeons would go crazy since Vegnagun is in the farplane, and the temples lead there.
I think Rikku is shocked because, even though it's not really made obvious with visuals, they said it fused with machina. So I guess that would look weird?
I've just replayed FFX2 after years because of your videos and I have to agree it's a lot worse than I remembered. Just lazy early 2000 design overall. But I have to admit I still enjoyed it 😅
In Chapter 3 you can buy level 2 elemental black magic accessories from the shops and in Chapter 5 you can buy level 3 rings so you could maybe use that to boost white mage damage output
We kinda wanted to fight the aeons let's be real but they did them wrooooong. No plot relevance, not really spectacular fights until maaaaaaybe Shiva and Anima (I don't remember precisely what that did).
Out of curiousity, what made you choose Yuna Trainer specifically? do you consider it the worst of the three? Since each character gets completely unique trainer skillsets and stat growths. though thinking about it myself a bit, don't think Ghiki and Flurry glitch/miss as much as Kogoro, though I always used Paine for trainer and its hard to miss with a bird.
It was mostly based on stats Yunas trainer had the lowest strength and agility of the three so thought that would make it more challenging The glitchy dog was just a nice challenging surprise
Rikku's pet can mug IIRC and Paine's pet has an insta death move, I know you're far into the game now but these changes might make the run a little easier for you.
I personally always liked tamer Payne, she was kinda usefull but It was soooo long ago, i dont remember very well, but i do remember that singer and tamer rikku where the absolute worst
the annoying thing about Shinra is he cheats the first time you do the spherebreak with him you can actually get him into a corner then he just pulls a chain out of his ass and wins. That's what I remember happening to me. unsure if I just got unlucky or if he's just a dirty little cheater.
I'll be honest, this run seemed too easy before since you had a solid DPS-Healer-Buffer lineup with the Gunner since guns actually do decent dps. There are numerous highend meta builds involving the infamous Catnip+Trigger Happy, even in later editions. Now the runs finally started the Trainer really does suck.
I think this whole aeon thing would have been a tiny bit better if things get explained a little. I can't remember but I think it never get's explained where the dark aeons come from and why they are appearing all of a sudden, especially after everyone thought they are gone forever after defeating Sin. At least that would make it a bit better for me. And I also agree on the fact that Paine is used way too little in this entire game. We know nothing about her really and she kinda lacks of personality too. She is still somehow my favorite together with Lulu but it feels like they tried too much making Paine a copycat of Lu with all the grumpy angry personality. But even Lulu showed so much more with game progression and Paine... did not really
I get to laughing at a lot of the X-2 fights because they can be cheesed with psychic. Give psychic all the eater abilities and most of the bosses and enemies become a breeze lol
I love the battle system in this game but the plot itself is really bad. I really want to have another game have this battle system because it was so unique and so much fun.
"Who wrote this?" The same guy that wrote the script for The 3rd Birthday. And that game had a terrible script. Gameplay was fine though. Just like with FFX-2.
The 2 youths who fight alongside Garik Ronso are vulnerable to Stop, so if your Songstress knows Brake-Dance, she can inflict Stop on them and take them out of the fight completely.
If you learn the accuracy and evasion sing abilities, each move gives an instant +6 stack for each. Every other song only gives a +1 stack. Might be helpful for Yuna’s doggo.
Loving this series!
Definitely got lucky with the UA-cam algorithm by having your content be suggested. Loving the series.
"What the boys are up to in the holes" killed me. 😂
Here's my thing: the Dark Aeons could've been a FASCINATING plot point. We know that the Farplane has been corrupted, so having the Fayth became so as well would have worked and provided for some extremely poignant moments of pain, reflection, and development for Yuna, as well as opportunities to expand (instead of defy) the world's lore and post-game evolution...but the developers utilized them as moments of action instead of emotion. Given proper contextualization, they could have made for some truly memorable and heart-wrenching bosses! But alas, we're left only to imagine better possibilities.
Your combination of memes and sarcasm really make these videos enjoyable and funny AF. I hope they remake X-2 in the future because you can see a lot of work went into the battle and transitions, but they just ran out of time to perfect the game. Probably wanted to ride X's coat tails as quickly as they could.
Aerospark, as listed by the wiki, deals damage equal to 5/8 of the target's remaining HP. So basically a Demi spell that you can't do anything about.
Ahh I see! That makes sense
Hmm... I think if FFX had simply stood alone with no sequel, I would have been okay. Even with the teaser scene at the end with Tidus, I could have accepted it as a "leave it to your imagination" scenario. That said, I don't mind the base concept of X-2. Tidus is gone, Yuna doesn't quite know how to move on, the world is picking a fight with itself, and suddenly she sees a sphere that looks like him and this leads her to journey around for more clues - and of course, being the High Summoner, people are eager to wrap her up into their problems along the way. All of that is just fine for a plot for a sequel. I might have backed away from the whole, "the world is going to end" trope, because it doesn't *always* have to be the end of the world, but okay. Whatever.
It's the whole pop music video feel that throws it all off. I'm not sure the audience would have wanted another emotionally-wrenching experience (especially if it couldn't live up to the first), but the fact that everything is a joke up until the last hours just knocks the wind out of the whole plot. Also.... the CommSphere chapter. Good lord, that absolute abomination of a chapter, forcing you to sit through endless dialogue and no gameplay. That's the kind of garbage you put in a game when you're padding for runtime - and what a dick move, making those scenes count for fractions of a percent of completion, and only if you sit through them fully. Just... wow.
This is an example of something with a lot of good ideas in really awkward packaging. If Square had been given another year or two, I wonder what we would have gotten?
Agreed, don’t even get me started on the commspheres!
You’ll hear aaaaall I have to say on that next episode
"Crimea" omg I lost it 🤣 I think you were trying to say Chimera
I think so too 🤦♂️
so lucky that YT suggested your vids (FFX challenge) and really enjoyed it haha. love your humor.
Loving this series! Makes me want to try to 100% this game again.
Let's not push it 😂
We need an Alyssa Edwards dress sphere DLC.
AMEN SISTAH!!!
Im letting you know but leblanc and her goons are the best thing that happened to this game. Its SUCH a good meme
I kinda figured the dark aeons returning are like "there's a disturbance in the force" kinda thing since Vegnagun and Shuyin went into the Farplane, which I assume is where all pyreflies and Fayth went to in the Eternal Calm
I recently fired up my old X-2 new game plus save to try to max all the Dresspheres and aside from Gun Mage (because getting all the monster techs is just annoying) the Trainer is all I have left since it's so painfully easy to miss... I'm kind of dreading having 3 Trainers out in battle at once after watching this.
X2 was my introduction to the series, so I just got a great game with great characters, rather than a soulless cash grab. It also led me to X!
Every youtube video needs more Alyssa Edwards. just like this one. Delightful. Super fun video!
I love your commentary, I would love to see your wits play out on other nostalgic games like Zelda!
So happy that the algorhythm pushed your videos. Can't wait for the next part 💖
I love that you make jokes about the questionable pronunciation instead of like re-recording your voice over. So FUNNY!
Just one question! Why don't you use the garment grids that give you access to other abilities and spells? Is it against your rules to change dressphere in battle to achieve all the bonus of the garments until you go back to the authorized dressphere?
Btw, I know we all forget it easily, but Valefor's faith is a girl, so he is not a boy.
These are so fun to watch. I love that I’m getting a recap of this game, drag queen memes and reactions, AND a challenge. All at the same time! Keep it up! 👏🏽
I dont dislike that the Dark Aeons are in ffx-2, I just wish they went into why they came back instead of nothing
Shame you didn't know the songstress' stat buffs could stack. I never get tired of Paine saying she doesn't like that dressphere.
Why is it so good when the cute ones suffer through games I like? Thanks for putting yourself through this for my enjoyment 🙂
Matador Song and Jitterbug (evasion and accuracy songs) don't even need to stack, they go to 10 stages instantly. It saves you a lot of time compared to doing darkness dance all the time to avoid attacks.
Also Garick ad his guards are not immune to stop. you can use the stop dance as well on them and save lots of time.
I'd be fine with the dark aeons if they had a reason to exist, like the last remnants of the fayth fighting to not fade away, but we never really get that.
I’m so invested in this!
I have had battles where Kogoro is stuck in one attack animation for like 2 minutes. If the enemy moves so much as a hair the hit doesn't count, and if it's a fast attacker it is almost impossible to hit.
Just to say for the fight against the ronso that they can get weaker if you give good answer to the ransos on the first two chapters. I remember when i fought them there was only 2 of them and i’m pretty sure there was some ability that they don’t use and maybe weaker in strengh
FF is good at not telling you anything. Similar to Battle Cry, you can stack stat boosts in FFX. Cheer, Jinx, Aim, etc. They stack up to 5 times and really help in certain fights.
I played this about a month after FFX recently and didn't mind the reused assets. I enjoyed seeing the same places again and fighting the aeons. Of course there is a lot in the story I dislike but overall I enjoyed the game quite a bit. Just really like Yuna as a character in both games.
Me too!
Yuna is such a well written character
If I'm not mistaken, I don't think Paine had the issues of the pet missing as much in the trainer class. Since hers is a falcon and doesn't have to run. Glitching specifically. Idk if the accuracy changes.
Short thing on Shell and Protect: If it worked to reduce damage on an attack you have the effect showing up around the character as you could see with Thor's Hammer. But yea Aerospark ignores any defensive abilities like the original Dark Ixion did^^
Loving this series !
If you ever do another run for this game you could do only magical or physical damage.
I think it is both cool and lame that they brought back the aeons. I think they did a good job with the writing, and how Yuna is concerned about all of them - but it makes sense to me that the aeons would go crazy since Vegnagun is in the farplane, and the temples lead there.
I think Rikku is shocked because, even though it's not really made obvious with visuals, they said it fused with machina. So I guess that would look weird?
Or she’s shocked because the djose temple is full of lightning?? :o
(That was terrible, I apologise)
You were probably thinking of the Chimera Brain that was in calm lands in ffx
I think I was too 🤦♂️
I've just replayed FFX2 after years because of your videos and I have to agree it's a lot worse than I remembered.
Just lazy early 2000 design overall. But I have to admit I still enjoyed it 😅
This series is sooooo fun. We love our girliessss
Oh gosh. I don’t give out many compliments on UA-cam but I’m loving this series and you’re doing a fantastic job. Very entertaining.
Really enjoying these :)
In Chapter 3 you can buy level 2 elemental black magic accessories from the shops and in Chapter 5 you can buy level 3 rings so you could maybe use that to boost white mage damage output
They sure know how to do racy lacism. It's stupid and I approve 👌
An Aeon!?!?!? :O :O
mans braver than the US marines doing this challenge run fr
I had to use the super dressphere to beat yojimbo…. And this was after leveling up all the dressphere. Dude has never been balanced.
I think I remember Aerospark being a % base health damage attack so I don't think anything affects it
Listen. Ifrit is hot, so I'm fine with the Aeons coming back. 😅
the girls are fighting 💐
Logos is prof. Snape
We kinda wanted to fight the aeons let's be real but they did them wrooooong. No plot relevance, not really spectacular fights until maaaaaaybe Shiva and Anima (I don't remember precisely what that did).
They should've made a faction that recreated the aeons as machina instead. For no other reason than... mecha-bahamut
Out of curiousity, what made you choose Yuna Trainer specifically? do you consider it the worst of the three? Since each character gets completely unique trainer skillsets and stat growths. though thinking about it myself a bit, don't think Ghiki and Flurry glitch/miss as much as Kogoro, though I always used Paine for trainer and its hard to miss with a bird.
The worse for each character
It was mostly based on stats
Yunas trainer had the lowest strength and agility of the three so thought that would make it more challenging
The glitchy dog was just a nice challenging surprise
Rikku's pet can mug IIRC and Paine's pet has an insta death move, I know you're far into the game now but these changes might make the run a little easier for you.
Well some of the side content may be impossible with this set up, but the basic mandatory events, should be fine
love u jamsac
While you haven't mentioned it, have you been doing the side quests that let you get the skill books for the hidden dancer skills in chapter 5?
I did not 🤦♂️ this game has far too much missable sh*t
That's certainly true. The Den of Woe is important enough that it shouldn't have had that chance. Thankfully, it's harder to miss the Experiment.
I personally always liked tamer Payne, she was kinda usefull but It was soooo long ago, i dont remember very well, but i do remember that singer and tamer rikku where the absolute worst
the annoying thing about Shinra is he cheats the first time you do the spherebreak with him you can actually get him into a corner then he just pulls a chain out of his ass and wins. That's what I remember happening to me. unsure if I just got unlucky or if he's just a dirty little cheater.
I'll be honest, this run seemed too easy before since you had a solid DPS-Healer-Buffer lineup with the Gunner since guns actually do decent dps. There are numerous highend meta builds involving the infamous Catnip+Trigger Happy, even in later editions. Now the runs finally started the Trainer really does suck.
Finally 3rd part 😊
Shoutout to Cute making a cameo in the video
your channel is great ❤️
I think this whole aeon thing would have been a tiny bit better if things get explained a little. I can't remember but I think it never get's explained where the dark aeons come from and why they are appearing all of a sudden, especially after everyone thought they are gone forever after defeating Sin.
At least that would make it a bit better for me.
And I also agree on the fact that Paine is used way too little in this entire game. We know nothing about her really and she kinda lacks of personality too. She is still somehow my favorite together with Lulu but it feels like they tried too much making Paine a copycat of Lu with all the grumpy angry personality. But even Lulu showed so much more with game progression and Paine... did not really
Will you do the Bevelle Labyrinth too?
I wasn’t planning to
But I can if people really want it!
I get to laughing at a lot of the X-2 fights because they can be cheesed with psychic. Give psychic all the eater abilities and most of the bosses and enemies become a breeze lol
Woooo part 3*
Diva
Wooow 🎉🎉
Crimea😂😂😂
200 is the highest in the game? Wait until you see Alchemist skills... Elixir costs 999 to master
I love the battle system in this game but the plot itself is really bad. I really want to have another game have this battle system because it was so unique and so much fun.
"Who wrote this?"
The same guy that wrote the script for The 3rd Birthday. And that game had a terrible script. Gameplay was fine though. Just like with FFX-2.
Valefore is a she!
Yeah, it’s a little lame.
Mind you, I did enjoy the game….
Still the worst FF game imo.
you complain a lot
I do, it’s true