A lot of DEAD people make cameos as well. Kamari is now elder of his people,and is as silent and useless as ever. Wakka is the same dumb,disgusting ya beefcake.Just with his dead brother's girlfriend. She's SUBMISSIVE now with a baby from her dead boyfriend's brother. Lulu who I hated from X is back,but her personality does a 180. Characters from X have cameo appearances. The little plot that was in here was about her and her friends.Very little was about Shuyin,Lenne,or Yuna. She looks like Lulu,is silent like Kamari and when she does talk it's like Auron. So in essence Yuna on X-2 acts like Rikku from X and Rikku on here acts like herself from X times a MILLION.Paine acts like Lulu,Kamari and Auron. Well now on X-2 you have that same Rikku just two years older and MORE hyper like SPEED mixed with RITLAN hyper. Well if you remember from X Rikku was this 15 year old hyper active stereotypical dumb blond with a capital on the hyper part. Characters: Submissive, damsel in distress Yuna from X is gone (which is a very good thing),but what's in her place is not good at all. Ohh and throw in MUSIC CONCERTS that some how quell the fighting between two political factions,getting NUDE in the heat of battle to try ON CLOTHES, fighting another scantily clad dim-bulb sphere-hunter and her cronies,and some childish stereotypical girl dialog and you have the *plot* of X-2.
You probably think okay jokes over now review the REAL plot. All the while they search for little glowing balls called spheres that 99 percent of the time hold NOTHING of importance. Plot: 2 years have passed and Summoner Yuna(High Summoner now)from X and her very annoying ADD-induced cousin Rikku and a girl named Paine try to find her 5 minutes I'm in love with you DEAD lover Tidus and also try to reunite another insane DEAD boy (Shuyin) and his DEAD lover(Lenne). Note: I HATED Final Fantasy X(It's predecessor)so I had NO expectations that it's sequel was going to be anything but garbage and I was right. And who misses her boy a lot, underneath it all.Ī friend of my sister let her borrow this game,and I watched her play a while and I decided to play out of boredom and a detached curiosity. Yuna's voice actress in particular once again does a stellar job, conveying a nervous, self-conscious, but determined Yuna who can't help wanting to save people but wants to learn to have fun, dammit. They bring a richness, subtlety and depth to the story that older games could only reach for. As for the voice acting- Yuna, Rikku and Paine's voice actresses all deserve medals, as do several of the other more minor characters. It's also quietly desolate in places, and some of the repeated themes are just beautiful. Finally, the music and voice acting in FFX-2 is just fantastic.
I really enjoyed the development of the inhabitants of Spira- what retired summoners do, the fact that the fiends of Spira encourage even grandmothers to be competent- the game starts out extremely easy, although it does get harder later, and this is clearly meant to reflect not only Yuna's experience in Final Fantasy X but also the world's experience with wandering monsters. It's also a game where you repeatedly run across signs that Yuna and company aren't the only adventurers and explorers in Spira. It's not only a game where you have to explore in order to find more story, it's a game where you can't see and get everything on a single playthrough. However, I feel that the Square-Enix team has used the previously created world of Spira very well, taking advantage of players' familiarity and interest in the world to weave engrossing stories about not just the protagonists but many of the characters encountered in the previous game. X-2 is a game where you definitely have to explore and poke around everywhere in order to squeeze every bit possible from the story if you only follow the big clue hammer plot points, you will indeed only get the barest sketchings of a story and maybe even finish it in 15 hours.
I clocked in at 77 hours, gaining the Normal Ending a replay is definitely in order and I'm glad they've included New Game Plus in order to make it easier to get the story again. Instead, it's on the characterizations of the protagonists and her allies, and it does an amazing job of it. Like Final Fantasy VIII, the focus of Final Fantasy X-2 isn't on the worldsaving- though worldsaving does, of course, appear.