Final Fantasy X is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square, now known as Square Enix. The game was released in 2001 for PlayStation 2 and it is the tenth installment in the Final Fantasy series. This was my second encounter of the Final Fantasy series and my first encounter was Final Fantasy VII. Final Fantasy X is played through third-person perspective, with players directly controlling the main character, Tidus. Players navigate around the world interacting with people and objects. The most interesting part of the game is the combat system. Final Fantasy X uses the Conditional Turn-Based Battle (CTB) system. In CTB system, a player’s characters and enemies await their turn to attack. Basically, it is like Pokemon battle system where a player and other trainer take turn to fight. Thus, the CTB allows the player to select an action without time pressure. In the battle, the player can control up to three characters. It is important to choose three characters that will be on the battle field because this will determine the performance in the fight. Furthermore, the player can replace characters in the battle field with a character outside the active party through a swapping system.
Like previous series of Final Fantasy, the game features many minigames. The most notable minigame in Final Fantasy X is underwater sport “blitzball”, which main character Tidus is a star blitzball player. Also, the game contains many short clips that connect to make a story. This is known as embedded narrative, which all Final Fantasy series contain. The basic story is the main character Tidus navigates through the world meeting other characters to fight against enemies known as “Sin”. So far, I have only played up to the point where Tidus and Auron get sucked into the world of Spira. This is actually my second time playing this game since I was not able to finish the game when I played first time.
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