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Anonymous09/16/25, 10:46No.3845163Final Fantasy X-2
Is it worth playing?
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Anon09/16/25, 10:54No.3845165
it's a rare example of a "what happens to the world after the jrpg plot has ended" story. you might not like the change in tone but it's silly and fun.
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Anon09/16/25, 10:58No.3845166
First half hour is torture, after that it's just a JRPG with a few good ideas.
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Anon09/16/25, 11:09No.3845170
No. In fact it will ruin your experience of the original game by completely changing Spira and actively trying to rewrite X´s ending. The dynamic class system was an interesting spin on the combat mechanics though. That´s probably the game´s sole salving grace but it´s not really enough to merit anyone´s time.
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Anon09/16/25, 14:06No.3845205
Having 100%ed this game about two or three times, Final Fantasy X-2 has a fair number of good things going for it. It's also a completely befuddling mess of a game that tries its damnedest to hide its best foot by putting its actually interesting ideas behind missable side content and instead having absolute nonsense as the focal point for a lot of the plot.If you play it, I recommend using one of these to experience the good content:https://lpix.org/sslptest/index.php?id=166376 (Long)
https://lpix.org/sslptest/index.php?id=166501 (Short)
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Anon09/16/25, 14:15No.3845209
Is it worth playing?
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Anon09/16/25, 15:59No.3845239
You already know what the consensus is, why not try it for yourself and see if you agree?
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Anon09/16/25, 20:16No.3845331
Downside > I loathed the story and most of the characters. I don't care about your rebel faction or whatever they were
Upside > The combat. The dress sphere (dynamic class system) is pretty darned cool and definitely my favorite part of the game. Its unironically one of the best combat systems amongst all the FF series
Also, if you're a complentionist then you have to play it on new game + as some things can only be acquired based on the faction you choose to support
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Anon09/16/25, 21:08No.3845345
It's not a good followup to FFX, and it's generally inferior to FFX. However, judged purely on its own merits, it's still a decent JRPG.
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Anon09/16/25, 23:29No.3845415
Its alright. Played it on release. Never hated it like everyone else but I think its because I had the strategy guide which was full of pictures and charts and broke the game down much easier to understand.
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Anon09/17/25, 13:17No.3845700
Keep in mind that X-2 does a weird thing where most of the big or late game enemies from X are little babies now while the generic palette swap enemies will push your shit in. Almost all of the coyote enemies have an instant death skill and start to come in packs of three around the middle of the game, for example. There's also the Coeurls that use an instant death (or HP to 1) skill every other turn.
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Anon09/18/25, 01:41No.3846032
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Anon09/18/25, 15:25No.3846248
Yeah it's alright.
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Anon09/20/25, 14:51No.3847179
Its a direct sequel but if you've played X then yeah its excellent. Its only real flaw is its 'we gotta sell strategy guides' mentality to its completion rate.
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Anon09/22/25, 14:01No.3848425
>by the time of X-2, Yuna is only just starting to learn Al Bhed
>Wakka, meanwhile, has become completely fluent
How does this happen?
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Anon09/26/25, 23:13No.3850530
This is the most Guide-Dang-It RPG in existence.
>Oops, you didn't talk this this minor NPC in the corner of the map in chapter 1
>That's -10% from completion
I've NEVER gotten into the Den of Woe.
Every playthrough I somehow miss a crimson sphere, because I do something out of sequence.
And I've played this like 10 times. So I'm confident when I say it's bad design.
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Anon09/26/25, 23:22No.3850531
Fuck Sphere Break.
Fuck the Calm Lands Promotional/Matchmaking.
Fuck the long-ass Cactuar Nation sidequest.
Fuck the Crimson Spheres.did I forget anything?
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Anon09/27/25, 05:27No.3850634
The gameplay is fun and the three actually have really good chemistry so they're entertaining.
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Anon09/29/25, 17:16No.3851660
Is the ff13 trilogy worth it? I'm considering buying it for the visuals alone but i wanna know if the other aspects of the game are alright.
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Anon10/07/25, 13:39No.3855388
I wonder why this game went out of its way to make the main antagonist feel so inconsequential. Not only Shuyin barely showing up outside of optional cutscenes, but even the way Vegnagun is handled.>Sin
>shown to have city destroying powers
>has a reputation of being borderline undefeatable by conventional means for 1000 years
>only able to be defeated by one method, which more or less immediately revives it
>can shed smaller monsters, mess with your memory, and use gravity magic strong enough to be seen from space>Vegnagun
>was never deployed in combat because it was programmed with anxiety
>literally compared to a frightened child
>spends most of the game hiding in a hole
>capabilities are extremely undefined beyond having a big cannon and maybe the ability to revive/mind control the Aeons
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Anon10/07/25, 13:50No.3855394
Depends if you want the "happy ending". It's a continuation of the original...
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Anon10/11/25, 13:39No.3857317
which is the bigger coomer game, X-2 or Lightning Returns?
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Anon10/13/25, 16:40No.3858117
Combat's fun, minigames story and characters are absolutely retarded
I remember the white haired guy (Baralai?) kicking my ass a lot
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Anon10/18/25, 14:48No.3860638
One thing that I remember about this game that there was a boss an ultima weapon in some kind of maze dungeon, that I never defeated, and I remember to make a lot of damage with the girl with the guns like 9999 for shot.
Someone defeated that bastard?
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Anon10/18/25, 22:50No.3860947
I liked it.
The main plot thread is retarded, but everything else is actually quite decent.
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Anon10/19/25, 04:21No.3861088
Try to play it as a separate game, using FFX as it's IP.
With how serious FFX was, I'm glad this was much more random and ridiculous. Spoiler of true ending kind of made it feel like all the work in FFX meant nothing, but with the story being Sin comes back periodically, I guess it didn't mean much.
Some of the minigames are so tedious that I had friends help me grind them out.
Getting 100% completion in this without a guide was also fun, but I'd use a guide to play this game again.
It's all about preference though. Some will say bad, and like me, I like it and have played through 5 times 100% completion.
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Anon10/19/25, 13:09No.3861254
What the fuck was with Wakka's voice shift? It's still Joe DiMaggio, but it feels like he's going for completely different inflections with Wakka now, to the point that half the time it feels like a soundalike is voicing him instead.