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Final Fantasy X complete!

Final savegame before the showdown(s) with the Ultimate Bad Guy(s): 44 hours 58 minutes.

As with the other Final Fantasy games I’ve played over the past few months, there’s a lot to like about the game. The presentation is top-notch and there’s certainly plenty to ooh and aah over in the complex world Square created.

But there’s also a lot about the game that’s unappealing. Comically overblown and overlong (and unskippable!) cinematics seemingly directed by a 12-year-old, a hero with daddy issues, a crackpot villain with mommy issues, secretive characters with secrets they’ll only reveal 12 hours after the player has guessed them, jejune commentary on the hypocrisy of religion, another new set of hoops to jump through to get the same set of spells that are utterly useless against bosses who just won’t stay dead …
Continued…