Sonic colors ultimate countdown1/13/2024 The ending also benefits of Uematsu bringing his A-game. The way the game slowly widens Tidus’ understanding of the world and his attachments to his party members (and Yuna) is beautifully paced, and for my money this is the Final Fantasy with the most emotionally poignant final-boss gauntlet and ending in the series. Tidus is our PoV character but Yuna is our protagonist, and while both are nominally in a quest to defeat the immortal world-wrecking kaiju Sin, they are both actually fighting against the legacy of their parents. Since character switching made battles easier, the game rewarded you for overkills on enemies - battles became not a matter of surviving but of figuring out how hard you could own the enemy. The abscence of time allows you to queue several commands and the game will execute them without having to wait for the next character’s turn to come up, which made battles go as fast or as slow as you wanted. This was the first fully voiced Final Fantasy (but it still allowed you to name its protagonist, which led to some really interesting script gymnastics to keep his name out of the dialogue).īut in the biggest overhaul since FFIV, the ATB system went out the window, replaced by the Conditional Time Based System - time no longer flows in battle, and you have a detailed breakdown of when it’ll be somebody’s turn you can also switch party members at any time without losing a turn, and each party member has a specific skill that enemies can be weak to. Still no floating camera (that privilege would belong to XI) but the use of polygonal backgrounds allowed Square to do camera tricks that would have required FMV before. After the popularity the series acquired with the PSX, Square threw everything at this one - it was one of the most expensive games of its time, with a staff of over one hundred people (back when that number was impressive) and the result is, frankly, mind-blowing.īesides the obvious character upgrades, the series got rid of pre-rendered backgrounds. X was Final Fantasy’s triumphant entry into the PS2 era. Highest rank: #1 (Conchobhar, Estragon)Ĭomposers: Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzu and Junya Nakano.
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