the game with it all: great story, attractive characters, a bit of fighting and some fantasy aspect (Final Fantasy X (PS2))

Member Name: hannahgibbins3

Product:	Final Fantasy X (PS2)
Date:	25/10/09 (11 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: story, gameplay

Disadvantages: graphics nowdays

Final Fantasy is one of the biggest names in console gaming! Being female, I am not particularly attracted to war type or particularly masculine games, and prefer some of nintendo's favourites- zelda, mario kart, super mario games and also GTA. There isn't a very wide market for girls who play games - unless you count insults such as brainless pink games which are about shopping or makeovers!- rubbish!
When I discovered the final fantasy games i was instantly enthralled! I picked up ff12 from gamestation for a fiver and couldn't stop playing. Though as I hadn't played any of the previous games I wasn't sure how to use certain things like the sphere grid, where you 'spend' tokens you collect from fighting to progress through a grid and get more attacks and stronger features for your character.
The best thing about final fantasy 10 or ffx, is the storyline, you play in the character of Tidus, a 'blitzball' star, a sport played in water similar to basketball. When 'Sin' the raging monster comes to destroy his town, he gets sent 1000 years into the future and meets new characters, who you can play as when fighting, who generally aim to defeat Sin.
The graphics, nowadays aren't great compared to newer ps3 games, but there is a lot of colour and the characters are interesting and different to each other.
The imagination used to create this game is good, there are lots of sub plots and ideas for characters used.
The fighting style is conditional turn based, there is no time limit or pressure, each character takes it in turns to select an attack or use an item on who ever they want to. There are special attacks with differnet characters and 'Overdrive' and 'Limit Breaks' are used in special circumstances.
Overall it is a great game and something for everyone!

Summary: everyone should try this