

Gameplay is also vastly different between the games. It is still well worth your time however.

It was a major shift in tone that alienated fans on release and still feels a divisive title in mainline Final Fantasy games today. The game even opens up with the trio singing and dancing in front of a crowd of thousands, which really sets the stall out for the rest of this adventure. It is impossible to describe the story of the sequel without ruining the ending to the first game, but given all those points above, think the exact opposite for this title. Then, in a seismic shift of tone, Final Fantasy X-2 is a saccharine journey again through Spira featuring returning characters Yuna and Rikku, alongside a new character called Paine. Final Fantasy X’s story isn’t the most cheerful at the best of times, and it isn’t afraid to be that way. And just within the first game there are arranged marriages, racism, sports and fathers out for revenge alongside the more typical elements of love, death and everything in between. Of course, being a Final Fantasy game there are twists and turns aplenty. Whilst in Besaid, Tidus meets Yuna, a young summoner who has taken it upon herself to complete a pilgrimage across the world of Spira in order to defeat Sin and bring about The Calm – a period of time where inhabitants can live without fear of Sin. Wakka – who is drawn to Tidus for his resemblance to his dead brother – tells Tidus they are travelling to Luca for the blitzball tournament and he may find the answers there that he needs. He eventually arrives in a small coastal town of Besaid and quickly befriends Wakka, another blitzball player.

Tidus must figure out what happened and how he can get back to Zanarkand. Final Fantasy X tells the story of Tidus, a star blitzball player – think turn-based football played underwater – who is thrown 1,000 years into the future from his life and everything he knows when a hulking entity known as Sin completely levels his hometown of Zanarkand.
