Bout time Spoony.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

Yaaay been waiting for this one for MONTHS! Funniest start ever..

I was jokingly thinking that something would be posted today on my birthday but turns out I was wrong. Thank you, Spoony, for the best gift ever.

its fun trying to guess how long you were filming by how dry your shirt was by the end.

It took you four hours to get through the Thunder Plains?

Ohh, someone’s been dodging lightning bolts for the Venus Sigil. :)

Thank You Spoony its awsome as usual.

aww come on spoony, it WAS a happy firework! :V

I seem to remember seeing a clip of the cutscene with the grind boots on TechTV (or whatever it was at the time) right after playing the demo of Sonic Adventure 2.

Funny.

lol @ vuvuzela joke

Wow… amazing coincidence. I was JUST watching sfdebris’ (sfdebris’s?) review of The Wrath of Khan before coming over to watch this. At first, I thought just the poster behind Spoony would be the end of the coincidence, but I never realized how much the two can tie in… freaky coincidence overload…

Finallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, FFX HAS COME BACKKKKKKKKKKKKKK to SPOONNNNY Experiment!

Pity you didn’t play the Tidus’ and Yuna’s laugh from earlier in the game when you were making fun of Seymour’s proposal.

Great review, as always. I’m confused though as to why Black Lantern Spoony requires aid in casting down Clone Spoony, especially considering that it was Linkara that defeated him the last two times (and with a SWAT shout-out of all things). Maybe Black Lantern Spoony has been infected by whatever got the writers of Final Fantasy X.

You forgot to mention that that dessert is impossible. A dessert cannot lead out from a shore like that. There has to be SOME plant life around that area.

I hate you Tidus.
And now your alive again.
Great….

Someone’s on a Lemmy kick lately…

Ugh this game’s plot makes my balls ache.

Awesome review, Spoony.

Oh man that was awesome. Cannot WAIT for the finish now!

I always had the theory about X and XII that someone at Square wrote the story and was like “Fuck.. we made a girl the main character. Our demographic is 18year old male nerds.. shouldwe rewrite it?” and then someone else said “Oh, throw some annoying blonde twatmonkey and say he’s the star. They’ll never notice.”

Dr. Insano threw his son! How mean.

Awesome review, man.

I got it right. Look, one “s”.

I don’t think you know what “moe” means. It’s basically a kind of “taste” and attraction concepts actually, at least initially. Even though it is now mostly used to refer to pandering to very weird crowds, think of it – is it really strange of people who make entertainment products to cater to audiences? I think not. But that’s not the problem. Be careful with generalizations, please. There is some weird shit going on with Japanese entertainment industry, hell, world’s entertainment industry as a whole, but it’s just a part of it. There will always be talentless hacks and great artists. One has to use discretion and not just bash those media formats (in broader sense) relentlessly, that’s just as stupid.

And no, the target demographic you’re talking about does not have that kind of money. They are teenagers and NEETs god damn it, not Rockfellers.

B-But… Oasis should have vegetation around it too! I know there is a reason why those games make my brain melt in a bad way – the sun in the desert is just too hot!

Well, maybe the Japanese fans don’t…

But that theory really makes sense.

Great video.

By the way, will we get to see Spoony dressed as Tidus next time? =D

That would be funny as hell!

Great screening and effects on that last part. I can’t really place what you used for the Farplane; it looks familiar though.

You’re right, since FFX it seems like the games have trouble deciding who their main characters are; and the protagonists they have aren’t exactly easy to relate to. Look at FFXIII: I assume the main character is supposed to be Lightning or Snow, but it’s hard for the average gamer to relate to either one – especially since there’s no real ‘jumping on’ point for us. They already know everything about their world so there’s no natural way to clue the player into anything that’s going on, and their character is already developed. Okay, yes, there was SOME development through the course of the game, but Lightning just becoming less of an asshole isn’t good development.

Oh man, Wakka trying to cheer Rikku up after the destruction of her home makes me cringe every time I see it. Not that either of the characters were the least bit likable in the first place, but that just makes Wakka more of an ass.

I guess he used for the fairplane scenes from the movie Constantine, isn’t it?

The best of your latest videos, really liked this one. + really good effect in the end there. Way to go. + Motorhead always makes a video more awesome.

(L) the black lantern spoony bit.

Yeah, that’s what I figured, too.

Oh great, Tidus reincarnate. Time to get out the lube! Satan isn’t done ass fucking us yet with this character. I hope this doesn’t take too long like last time. I’ve got items to sell in the Auction House on DDO.

Hey Spoony, keep up the good work! Love the review! Update real soon!

Grind boots were in Sonic Adventure 2 before Ratchet and Clank.

Excellent review! Totally taking it to the next level. I love the fact that rather than a simple “I loved this game/I hate this game” review, you actually created an engaging narrative with a freaking cliff hanger. Can hardly wait for the next installment. Plus, Dr. Insano…ummm…father of the year? When he said “Spoony you ignorant slut” I nearly choked on some water I was drinking. Too funny. We almost can’t call these “reviews” anymore, as they seem to be taking on a new life as hiliarious comedic short films. keep up the good work.

I agree, the Cosplay sequences are always “Squee” moments!

If the story ever gets to hard to comprehend just use the excuse ” Magic ” it solves everything.

Not only that, but since Oasises (I think that’s the plural.) are in the middle of land masses, that implies that Tidus fell from the sky to get there… Ow! My brain, balls, and fingernails hurt. Damn you, Final Fantasy X! I’d hate to see how Spoony deals with Final Fantasy X-2. I couldn’t imagine it being any more lazy and rediculous… Oh, god.

The ending might have been just about one of the most epic things ever.

He needed a new basketball net but getting a whole Tidus costume just for that one elbow turned out to be cheaper.

Even though I like the game and have good memories about it I have to agree with most points made – especially concerning that twatty Tidus. I hate this guy. C**ksucking wuss.

Hmm.. okay, correct me if I’m wrong:

1) In your joint Youngblood review with Linkara, Black Lantern Spoony is transformed by Linkara’s Phoenix Down back into Original Spoony, though Mekakara kills him again and he reverts back at the end.

2) In Linkara’s Power Ranger Comic Review and Mekakara conclusion, a ressurected Black Lantern Spoony gets enraged by Linkara’s “You’re in my way, sir” comment and removes his Black Ring in disgust. Again, Original Spoony.

I did gloss over that Original Spoony (God, I didn’t think I was this much a nerd, but here I am) confronted Clone Spoony and was so disturbed by the item Clone Spoony was reviewing (I forget what it was, there are so many) that Original Spoony killed himself and reverted to Black Lantern Spoony AGAIN. But on the scorecard, that leaves Linkara with two wins. I can’t really give Clone Spoony a win because Black Lantern Spoony didn’t stick around to fight – the confrontation was between Clone and Original Spoony (Dear God, this is on par with a Marvel Crisis Crossover event).

Am I wrong here? Is there an video I missed?

Joy to the world, the Bard is back.

Seeing you do the Seymour battle reminded me of just how horrible it was. Granted I did somewhat like Seymour’s come back to Tidus after using the talk option. Maybe it’s me but a) the voice actor did a half decent job (for once) and b) Seymour’s comment and tone of voice actually seemed somewhat witty, which Tidus couldn’t properly comprehend or hope to counter, thus screaming “SEYMOUR!” back. As for the battle itself, I remember having to grind for about a week or two before feeling ready to take him on (not enjoyable, and I didn’t mind the Sphere Grid that much…). I also found using steal on his stylists seemed to take their reserve of potions, allowing you to take them down and focus on Seymour.

And the bit at the end with Black Lantern Spoony was AWESOME! I loved Blackest Night (granted not as good as it could have been, but still an enjoyable story), so every time he pops up, I smile. Granted I was half expecting BL Dr Insano to pop up (due to CR’s video) but this looks like it’ll be just as awesome :D And is it me or did the ring have some highlighting on it, as I felt the symbols to stand out more?

Oh yeah, one more thing. I completely agree on the whole Al-Bhed angle. You wanna know what I call it when ONE summoner gives her life to destroy the ultimate evil in the entire time-space continuum?
A rational transaction. One life for billions!
The Al-Bhed are idiots!

Once again, epic editing at the end. Can not wait for the next vid in the series. Keep em comming!!!

So let me get this straight. Spoony now owns a Squall costume AND a Tidus Costume? Cmon Spoony fess up you love all Final Fantasy games and are just trying to repress it with your open hatred. Kinda like gay guys sleeping with every chick they can find to deny that they are gay.

YES THE REVIEW CONTINUES AND NOW I AM STARTING TO AGREE WITH SPOONY!!! Never really cared in the begining. Z:P

Vaan and Penelo were NEVER meant to be in FFXII; originally Basch was supposed to be the hero, but half of the development team (who were the team that designed FFIX; the other half was the FF Tactics team) threw a HUGE tantrum to the point that the director, Matsuno, said “Fuck you, I don’t have to put up with this” and left. Explains why XII’s plot was such a mess and why Vaan and Penelo are so out of place (heck, even Ashe is a bit out of place)

Best Ending to a review ever. I can’t wait for the final part. Black Lantern Spoony rules.

You refrenced Hurricane Katrina in a video which was posted on the same day of it’s fifth anniversary. Either you are a great planner, or the planets have just aligned. Also, am I the only one who actually noticed this?

Finally!
Great stuff! I think you’ve overused the counter gag, but hey.
Your let’s plays and game reviews is what makes me come back to this place.

The laughing part really got me.

LOL, great intro. I love Blitzball. :3

THIS REVIEW WAS HILLARIOUS!!!

I just remember where I got stuck in FFX. Seymour(s)

Can I get my Negator with metal spikes to defend against blitz balls?

Spoony’s eyes just look dead inside when I see his face.

Stop doing this, man, it’s killing you!

The wait was long, but oh so well worth it :D

Awesome video!
it was worth the wait….

the ending was epic….

To be concluded?! awww, and i was just starting to really get into it :(

to be concluded?! awwww and i was just really getting into it :(

It just occurred to me… Auron may have been trying to kill off Tidus with the excuse of fetching a sphere from the forest.

” Hmmm, if Tidus dies I can be the main character. ”

Making stupid unrelatable characters purposefully is not an excuse for making stupid unrelatable characters. You can say “oh, no one is perfect,” but that’s a cop-out at best. You can have characters confused and stunned without being complete dumbasses. Yuna’s trained basically her entire life to perform ceremonies like the Sending. So why didn’t she default to her training that has been drilled in to her brain to Send Seymour? Because she’s an idiot. Tidus shows absolutely no glimmer of basic comprehension, with the “I’m on the Zanarkand Abes” in the earlier video DIRECTLY AFTER HE WAS TOLD NOT TO MENTION ZANARKAND. So your fake main character and your should-have-been main character are both complete morons purely to drive the plot forward. That’s bad writing. It’s terrible writing. If at any point in your narrative, you rely on a character performing an absolutely pants-on-head-retarded action in order to proceed, and completely fail to justify taking that action, then you have completely and utterly failed as a storyteller. This is an indisputable point.

As for “[Tidus] was a “cool blitzballer” with no thoughts about his life and after one second he is driven into a world of darkness and fear. His reactions must be seen under his strugle for his past.” No, his reactions must not be seen that way, they must be *shown* to us that way. And they’re not. If the narrative doesn’t make the effort, it should not rely on the observer to conjure up the framework on his or her own. But that’s exactly what you’re doing. The game hasn’t extended any form of effort to show how Tidus is trying to figure out a place in this world that he may be stuck in, or much concern for the world he left behind. Hell, he just jumps straight back to playing blitzball. Which, after 1,000 years, has apparently undergone absolutely no rules changes that matter, despite every sport in our world undergoing rules modifications nearly yearly, so someone from even a decade ago would need to be brought up to speed to play professionally. It would have actually been an amazing story point and moment of character development if he’d tried to play blitzball and then discovered it wasn’t the familiar sport he was so good at. Hell, it’s not given any marked importance to him at all. You don’t even get a vibe from Tidus of “Well, my world is crumbling, everything I’ve ever known is gone, and my life is in danger, but at least I can still turn to blitzball as a rock.” Tidus absolutely fails as a character of any depth.

Over-used the counter? Not at all. He’s only got two different counters, each one showing something different and terrible about the game, exactly like the original fuse box counter gag in the Thing review. Now we need a counter count to keep track of all the different counters he’s had in all his videos. Then it might be an overused gag. :p

From people I’ve talked to in various forums, I’m fairly certain that no one who uses blip ads has any control over which ads show, it’s simply opt-in and opt-out. You can pick what kinds of ads (pre-roll, post-roll, pop-over), but that’s it. Being able to pick individual ads would be much more difficult on blip’s end, and would likely reduce revenue shares by an excessive amount, so I can understand why it’s done that way.

That said, I’d suggest using a different browser in those circumstances. I’ve heard from many firefox users that Ad Block Plus stops blip’s ads, so using that temporarily would probably be a good idea. Personally, I use Opera, and I’ve never had any issues with any of the ads, so that’s an option as well.

I did the ultimate weapons, but I never bothered with most of the sigils like the 100 lighting dodges.

Only good hing is that the Ultima Weapons get some extra effects anyways.

Spoony should play FFIX, if only to make some sense how Garland and the 4 Fiends are in it :P I know every FF game isn;t connected with eachother, but he could tie the FF1 time loop with it :P

I bought this game and played it all the way through, yet none of this seems familiar to me. That’s actually pretty cool, i just remember that i really fucking hated this game, and that blitzball is the most ridiculous thing i’ve ever seen.

It really does amaze me that i just dont remember any of this bullshit. There truly is Nepenthe my friends.

I loved this. Really looking forward to the conclusion with Black Lantern Tidus. Although I don’t know why Tidus is dead. Speaking of Tidus, I have to admit I think he looks pretty hot, probably because he almost counts as a girl. Even then he’s still annoying as all hell.

Spoony you are NOT going to dress up like Tidus in the finale, are you?

PLEASE GOD NOO!

Oh god you’re dressing up as Tidus aren’t you!?

The horror awaits, also this has to be the most confusing bloody story for a game so far.

ummm spoony please never do that dead thing at the end where you have the weird voice, IT FUCKING TRIPPED ME OUT. I think i’m actually scared of you now. No seriously I need moar! great fucking job!

The vuvuzelas at the start! I had to restart the video three times it was too funny!

GGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Thank you Spoony! AH today is like Christmas!

Am I about to see Spoony dress up as Tidus for the finale? This is gonna be AWESOME!!!

Win. I can’t believe I forgot all about Wakka’s need for sensitivity training. And why the heck didn’t Insano plan ahead for Blitz Balls? Honestly, that’s the first thing you should always plan for in any product. That and ferrets. Because they will get up in there and wreck that.
Now.. someone call a White Lantern! This has to stop before Spoony is lost forever!! Of course it may already be too late if he dresses as Tidus…

Oh, God; I HATED the Thunder Plains. And yes, I did dodge the lightning 100 times, because I was an idiot >_>

Great review, and I cannot wait for more. Btw, the distortion effect on your Black Lantern voice is much, much better than in the first one.

Ah, yes, NOW I remember why I muted the TV every time the cut scenes came on. And why I finally said fuck it and stopped playing this game.

That movie was not bad!!! :(
He could have been stuck in Twilight.

Geez with my temper hotter than a rabid wolf I would not be able to tolerate these halfwits known as the heroes of FF 10 especially the chick Tidus. By the way Black Lantern Spoony is bad ass, awesome demonic voice as well.

Y’know… Not to be an ass or to offend here, but I gotta kinna call bullshit on the ending.

“Black Lantern” Spoony and “Rat Brain” Spoony already went through this earlier when the lantern was off. Spoony killed himself and re-gained his black lantern form to get away from the show after the clone Spoony was giving him the show to get away from reviewing FFX in the first place. Heck, clone Spoony offered the show to him, so why would the original, after rejecting the show want to kill the clone to regain it when he could have done so earlier without conflict?

Still… it’ll be interesting to see the final battle.

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Fuck yeah Motorhead! m/

Some damn good green screen this episode! Bravo. Very funny.

Thanks for mentioning that whole stupidity with the Thunder Plains dodging lightning crap for a reward thingy, Spoony. I don’t know if you got the idea from my comment about it on the first part of this series or somewhere else. Either way, I thank you for doing that. Means a lot.

Great stuff Spoony. Can’t wait for you to turn your sites on ff13, That game had horrible story telling and bland game play. I liked the combat system but it wasn’t enough to prevent it from becoming a tedious grind.

Ever read DC comics all they ever do is whine about how they can’t kill villains or they will be on the same level as villains. Like I understand the moral high ground but for a while there I swear every DC comic I read was about that.

now im a little pissed off, i like your videos Spoony , but you suck my good man.
let me refrase, you suck at this game, you have no clue about the story, the gameplay shown here must be by someone new to gaming and your knowledge about the game is clearly from an 2 paragraph Ecyclopedia Dramatica page.

first of all: Tidus is the main character, its his thoughts and feeling we know throught the game as he narrates them to us, and he has a HUGE influence in the story, without him the story would have ended with Yuna summoning the final Aeon and dieing. He is a man from a different world, that doesnt like the current traditions, the sacrefice of summoners and the corrupt Yevon clergy. He is whiny, but thorwards the end og the game he have finaly gone past that (this happend graduelly, btw, like any in good story telling the characters develops, and even though all of them develop [not so much Lulu, Khimari and Rikku but do they develop] but Tidus more than anyone, which is a sign that he is the main character, he changes as the audience understanding off this world changes).

Secondly: Seymore is supossed to seem untrustwotrthy since we se him through Tidus view, and he thinks of Seymore as a douch because he is going after Yuna. When Seymore dies the Guado gards (note this word, the GUARDS) comes in, if yuna tries to send him, they will attack her. and not everybody that dies continue living in their normal form, only the few strong willed people who cling to this world too fufil a task live in their normal form, most who stay become fiends, and Seymore’s motivation comes in the form that he wants to become Sin to take Spira’s sorrow and pain away, this is because of his death (duh) and becasue he as a young summoner had to sacrifice his own mother to create the final aeon, that fucked him up (again, Duh).

Thirdly: when Sin took them to Bikanel, they didnt get teleported by the toxin, but sin knocked them out and carried them to Bikanel.

fourthly: When Tidus discovers that Yuna will die, you dont mock the fact that he is sad and angry, put yourself in the same possition, say your girlfriend is going to die and everybody knows it, but none of your friends said anything to you before you found out by a third party.when that happens can we come and mock you!?

And to finalise i have to comment on the “difficult” boss in Macalania forest, that boss is easy, every boss up to the second time you face Seymore. and Thunderplains and the other places you mentioned doesn’t take that long time, at leat if you aren’t goffing around looking for “Ass-Shots”, and this is comming from someone who usualy explores everywhere at my first playthrough.

sorry for the harsh tone but man this is just some of the signs of someone who played the first three hours and read a badly written synnopsis without details for the rest.

You know what helped with the story in this game? Well a couple of things but honestly you can’t even attempt to face FF X without properly armoring yourself against its seething awfulness, its unholy lack of heart and soul, its foul stink of everything that is wrong with J-RPGs.

First I tended to just take every area of the game as an “episode” in a very, VERY episodic anime. I’m an anime fan you see so it wasn’t all that hard to trick my brain into inserting opening and closing credits, complete with themes every time a new area or scene just seemed to happen. I know some people call that Acute Sudden Onset Schizophrenia but I call it a Survival Tactic! So Delusion is the first piece of armor I suggest if you decide to tackle FF X.

Second, I tended to devote no less than 7 hours of play time to the game each session. I was in college when this game first rose from the Stygian depths and I didn’t have a lot of time to play it. However when I did have the time I made sure to devote my day fully to it, like a sacrifice to whatever unhallowed dire gods Square-Enix worship. In this way I felt I was getting somewhere in that M.C. Escher painting of a storyline, devoid but at the same time stuffed full of plot. So your second piece of armor is Weekends. If you’re going to waste your precious lifespan with FF X might as well fully devote yourself to its satanic orgy.

Third, a change of consciousness. Okay I don’t want to be “that guy” the one that brings up Marijuana all the time and thinks he is cool because of it. I’m not cool, hell I’m a terrible geek that sit around playing video games all day. But… Pot helped, it helped a whole hell of a lot. It made the otherwise paper thin but still invincible wall of force that is the plot of FF X at least seem more interesting. It wasn’t more interesting of course. Oh it also helped with the violent nausea that FF X is known to cause in 4 out of 5 players (if you experience blackouts, muscle tremors, explosive diarrhea, or death please stop playing FF X immediately and consult a your doctor.) So the third piece of armor is something to change your state of mind, whatever you can do to dull your perception is a must.

And Lastly, Share the Pain. Nothing helps more than finding someone to share the pain with, either through being in the same room with your whilst you’re playing FF X or at least do what I did. A friend of mine wanted to play FF X but didn’t have the cash for either a PS2 or the game itself, so we kinda Share-cropped the whole “experience”. He borrowed my system during the week and I took it back on the weekends. We had an arrangement so neither of us would get ahead of the other so we could share our “feelings” on the game at our weekly D&D group without spoiling anything…not that it would have mattered, rotten is as spoiled as it gets and FF X is well… Hamlet put it best “Something is rotten in the state of Zanarkand.” I paraphrase of course. So the last piece of armor you’ll need is proper usage of pain sharing. Nothing makes torture more bearable than knowing a close friend is also getting their finger nails pulled out just like yourself.

Kuja is damn evil. His character isn’t hair brained in the least bit. He kicks the living shit out of the party like 3 times. He destroys an entire planet. Hes always like 2 steps ahead of you the entire game up until the end. Hes a badass, even if he dresses weird. And even in the end, you find out that he is just as human as everyone else(well, not literally). He doesn’t have a voice actor, which is great because video game voice acting is atrocious most of the time anyways. His dialog is also true-to-character, and his intentions are pretty clear throughout most of the game. And he kicks your ass too, alot. That more than makes up for his creepy sense of fashion.

And whats neat is how they faze him into the game at a later point, in fact for the first part of the game, you think Brahme is the antagonist(up until you visit the Dragoon chick’s home city) and she does a really good job painting the picture.

And most of the side quests like Mog-net turn out to be worthwhile, considering that they add clarification to what is happening, assuming you follow along with delivering letters as the story progresses. Vivi’s grandpa side quest would be another example of it. Chocobo Hot-and-Cold is alot of fun too, and is key in accessing the superboss.

Most people don’t even bring up the Active Time Event system; It was genius. It gives you a real feel for the characters and adds a 3rd dimension to the narrative. They should have included it in every successive Final Fantasy, but didn’t for some idiotic reason. I think it was Sakaguchi progressively becoming less and less involved with Square that fazed it out, along with most of what made the series great; he was the real mastermind behind Final Fantasy.

I mean honestly, the game is a masterpiece. Its my personal favorite in the entire series, and the last ‘great’ Final Fantasy, along with being a homage to the entire series.

The score is amazing(like every score Uematsu has done) and probably the most diverse composition that Uematsu ever did. I mean, compare the feeling of ‘Dark Messenger’ to ‘Crossing the Hills’ to ‘Vamo Alla Flamenco’ to ‘Black Mage Village’ to “Melodies of Life’. Its amazing how much flavor and originality was put into the soundtrack for the game. In fact, if you can name one game with a more diverse and masterful soundtrack, I’d certainly like to hear it. Uematsu said it was the best score he ever did, and was favorite to compose and be a part of, out of every game he ever worked on(30+). I would recommend the game just to listen to the sound track, if anything. Its a true masterpiece.

The weakest link of the entire game is Tetra Master, but its alot better than Triple Triad. Its bad, but not terrible. Second to that would be the toned down difficulty. I really wish it would have been more difficult.

Whats a crying shame is how overlooked the game is. It deserves more respect.

Well I tend to agree what Spoony is little harsh on the game I just have to say a couple of things…

Tidus might be the “Main Character” of the game but is most defiantly by proxy. Think of it this way; if Tidus was never summoned into the world what would have changed? No really, think about it for a second. I know there are fans of the game and, as a term I’ve coined lately; “you can’t fight the fanboy tide” but you have to admit that Tidus only adds himself to the storyline. Without Tidus Yuna’s party would have been down one character. The game would have likely be a lot different granted but Tidus isn’t truly a singular force driving the story. Without him the world would have ended up worse but otherwise really couldn’t they have created ANY better character to insert? I played the Japanese version and I can tell you it doesn’t make Tidus any better. But I do agree, the story is told from his point of view that creates a false sense of importance. Plus Female main characters haven’t worked well for Square in the past so Tidus was a must have, given that 80% of RPG players are males between the ages of 13-24.

Then there is that whole Sin thing. Okay fine, Sin used toxin to knock out and “carry” the group to the desert, that is fine. But it is terrible story telling!!! Deus ex Machina of the worst find. I make my living writing (ignore the grammar and such, how many of you do your job outside of working hours?) and I can tell you if I brought a manuscript with as many plot holes and maguffin (thank you Hitchcock for such a wonderful word) I’d be laughed out. I be doing rewrites for a month or maybe even lose my contract all together. In short, it doesn’t even make sense of Sin to have magical knockout toxic fumes that don’t kill and it makes even less sense it would bother to pick up everyone and move them to the desert unless you count “it moves the story along” which is maguffin of the highest caliber.

Lastly, yeah that boss was cake. In fact FF X was the easiest RPG I had played at the point of its release, I didn’t ever, EVER see the game over screen. I have no idea what it looks like and could care less. Spoony’s was being hyperbolic I think so he could point out how silly that home movie, in the form a sphere was. But I do agree with you overall, he is being a little more harsh to FF X than many would enjoy. But I see the reason. We, as the consumers, have the RIGHT to demand better storytelling, better gameplay and better quality from our video games. They want to call them art? Then there, Video Games are art and thus subject to the most snarky of critics.

LoL, the vuvuzela-part was just classic !

If anybody needs a recap, CR did a pretty great job cataloging all the times Spoony has died and been raised in his Dr. Insano video on TGWTG. When will these fluctuations in hyper time end?! WHEN?!
Also I think Linkara’s magic powers are just that great that he can stare down a black lantern like it’s not a big deal. A powerful ally indeed.

There is one other thing I’m angry about. Just as I was about to submit my patent for the Portable Anti-Magic Field Generator, Insano beats me to the punch. Maybe we can collaborate and he can endorse my anti blitz ball technology. Those things are nearly unbeatable but I will prevail. With SCIENCE!

Final Fantasy 10 isn’t the first Final Fantasy where the main character has nothing to do with the story… The famous Final Fantasy 7 also has this, Cloud is there ONLY to kill Sephiroth and on the like last hour of game he says he doesn’t care about the world in a game about saving it.

I no longer need a dongly thing for my flying magic negator! Thank you Dr. Insano for making my life that much easier.

The Al Bhed capturing the summoners, I don’t recall them really looking for an alternative to the final summon, their plan was pretty much 1. Capture summoners, 2. Stop them from killing themselves 3. ??? 4. World saved!

Because… Guado took the body? I didn’t make it that far in this game, but wouldn’t it be logical for Tidus, Auron and the crew to STOP them from taking the body? Isn’t that gaping logic hole exactly what Spoony tries to address here?

So very true! I’ve never been the biggest fan of FF VII myself and I’ve said just the same thing before, although FF X Tidus is much more of an non-entity than Cloud ever was. Cloud at least add some motivation and was part of putting the group together in a small respect granted but he was there.

I can hardly think of a moment in FF X where Tidus add anything to the story besides well himself. Yuna could have easily been the main character and the story would have happened almost just the same. That goes for Tifa too, but female leads weren’t good for marketing in Japan in those days. That has changed but given FF XIII’s terrible reviews I’m guessing if Square does make another Final Fantasy, called FF XV which they are already making *sigh* we’ll see if they go back to sexist men do all the winning. I’m against sexism by the way, I care about the personality of the characters and I normally ignore their gender unless it is their whole character *cough Lulu cough*.

Yeah plot holes like that are universal in Final Fantasy, I can’t think of a single games since the series started to have a plot that there aren’t giant plot holes that are never explained.

Also, sin causes them to drift makes more since than he carries them as someone said at some point. But it is still impossibly lazy and bad writing. Sin (who is the major maguffin of FF X) appears to whenever the plot seems to dead end and fixes it. This happens like…six times in the game at least by my memory.

I’m guessing step 3 is, 3. “Sin goes on a rampage, all die (even had it underlined)” 4. World saved! (by proxy of no life remaining .)

WAKA: “So what, Titanic? It’s a waterslide, ya know?! BOOOM!”

Fair enough. hat doesn’t change the fact that the summoners sacrifice is ultimately a futile one, and in the end Sin will wipe everything out regardless. I presume the al hed were trying to think of another way to beat it. I recall them palying a big role in operation Mihen.

I just saw this comment. I have to ask how Cloud isn’t the main character, given his relationship with the central villian, and said villian using Cloud as a puppet to accomplish his goals. Not to mention two of the bigest plot twists centering on him. Namely the one in the crater where Sephiroth reveals his false memories, and the lifestream sequence where he rediscovers his true self. Add to that he killed Sephiroth and it seems to me that he is definetely the central character.

Vuvuzelas make everything better.

World saved! = Profit! in this case.

The relationship with Aeris kinda push the game foward regards to the motivation on defeating Sephiroth, and in this game like in a lot of other JRPGs the story is partially driven by emotional based factors, not really by a rational plot.

Also, while Cloud may not be really involved in the main plot, he is just like a generic american RPG “custom character”, he basically doesn’t talk and his decisions are made by the player, so like a lot of american RPGs he is that “hero” that pretty much kick the ass of everyone, but doesn’t have much importance in the plot. And I think he is a very good one.

It don’t work…. I get the advert for the Car…. (is it meant to be a still advert?) and then it goes black and stays black…. FOREVER :(

Final Fantasy X can’t hold a candle to even the worst of the Tales Of series. Especially since that series never did turn based fighting.

Like the review series, very entertaining. Some of your problems with the plot looked a lot like you just weren’t paying attention. I saw the plot tying together as it went, such as Rikku being the one who gave away Yuna’s position and Sin’s ability to send people whereever whenever being well-established. Yuna didn’t send Seymour because the Guados dragged him out before she could even say “Aeon.” The placement of Jecht’s spheres WAS annoyingly arbitrary, and I always hate the obvious villain never being called out. Seriously, all Final Fantasy villains have the same exact face with minor cosmetic tweaks. And don”t forget the long hair, FF13 is the only one I’ve seen to break that rule so far.
The main characters did seem inanely stupid at times, but-and I don’t know why for sure-I felt drawn into the story and empathised with Tidus. Maybe because I was in the middle of a breakup, who knows? I actually liked the game, liked it lightyears more than 12. But once again, it’s only that weird empathy that keeps me playing FF games other than 7. The story may be stupid, but… I like it… does this make me a bad person?

One major thing you seem to be deliberately avoiding at this point is that the dead don’t always just pop back up.

Most people who aren’t Sent become the fiends you end up fighting along the way. It takes a strong will to become an thinking undead in FFX.

And with the first Symour “kill”, they believed him to be dead at that point, and they thought that the church would eventually send him (Which turns out to be wrong in the end, but that was a major conspiracy by the church hierarchy).

We also don’t know the difference in time between the event beneath the temple and Titus waking up again.

For the Al Bhed knowing where Yuna is, Cid probably found out where she was, and possibly had something watching to transmit back while planning a rescue. Yuna probably only got the chance to send Seymour at the wedding.

Almost certainly… but they don’t look like it. Then we have issues with the directing of the cutscene. Any reaction out of the heroes? Any “Hey, stop, what the hell are you doing here, guys, we just beat your leader ass” or anything? Anything? I admit, I never actually seen this scene before, but I can easily see how it would be either written or directed poorly to confuse the hell out of people.

That’s actually the whole problem with those pseudo-subtle schematic narratives employed by many JRPGs and many pseudo-intellectual japanese animated films. Some events happen, there might be some explanation given in a completely different place, or there might not be a solid explanation at all, but fans will look through and come up with one, or maybe not just one! The game didn’t seem to bother to explain many things to the player (like Farplane, or logic of battle in the temple of ice, or INSTANT DESSERT) so even if those events somehow all make sense, this only brings up another problem.

Damn, it’s true, they like explain the fiends thing several times in the game.

I have to agree with H.R. I admire your ability to follow the games story that closely, but I just read your initial response and none of it makes sense to me. How closely do you have to follow a story in order for it to actually make sense to the player? How many hours of game play do you have to spend in order to figure out ever single facet of the games universe so it makes sense to you? Granted that is a strength to these JRPGs, their ability to suck you into their world and intrigue you with their mysteries so you want to find the answers. The problem is these types of stories have been done to death. I have seen so many games like this with lavish, ridiculous, anime inspired settings, needlessly complicated plots, nonsensical sci-fi and fantasy concepts, and phoned in philosophy that is disguised as depth. This plot is no deeper or profound than Debbie Does Dallas but it’s disguised to look like something really amazing is happening. The Final Fantasy series has been stagnating for years now. They have recycled the same themes and conventions over and over again and it has just gotten old. They have been phoning it in ever since 8 because they know they have a built in audience; why try when you know the fan boys are always going to pick up your game. These characters look and act so far removed from any normal person that they are impossible to relate to, at least for me. Their world is so bombastic and ridiculous that it does not intrigue me as I have been with the previous games. I am not being taken in by a mystery, I’m being bombarded by bright lights and flash colors and ridiculous concepts. To put it simply, the magic is gone.

I’ll admit it is not the worst entry in the series. Their is some good content here and the parts that are stupid are laughably so. But the simple problem is this: 12 years ago when I played Final Fantasy 7, I did cry when Aeris died. I was so moved by the story in a video game, the same medium that gave us an italian plumber who jumps on turtles, that I did weep. Final Fantasy 7 was a master piece and it showed the world along with many games of it’s era such as Silent Hill and Metal Gear that games are not just a form of entertainment but a work of art. Through a video game you can take a person on a journey that is not just entertaining but also says something about the human condition. And while the video game industry has continued to evolve and producing excellent games which have pushed and explored gaming as a story telling medium, Final Fantasy has continued to hash out the same crap every couple of years. Now Final Fantasy is just a bunch of moogles and elves playing grab ass in a field while looking at lights.

But maybe it has moved you in away that I was moved by 7. But me, brother, I’m done. All I can do is laugh at it now. After all we are talking about a story where volley balls are deadly weapons and everyone dresses like their in a Lady Gaga video. But hey, who am I to judge.

True… I’ve never missed a Tales of game so far and I’d always recommend them over even the best Final Fantasy games. Also the early Star Ocean games… the Snes and PS1 version… after that they kinda went insane.

I can feel you there… There was a point when I was playing through FF X where I found myself, for reasons I shall not and can not explain, standing on the top floor of a multi-level parking garage in the pouring rain. I was staring blankly out at the ocean from my birds eye view and pondering; “Why isn’t the boss showing up…?” I can’t explain that thought or how it got into my head but I blame FF X more than my less than causal drug use at the time.

FFX suck, The real reason, it spawned FFX-2. Abomination!

Oh my God! Dude! Giving the villain a doomsday device is totally contributing to the story!!!

Man, I totally disagree. Cloud totally drives the plot to that game. He is completely involved in it. The entire game is his own personal quest. Along the way he overcomes obstacles both externally and internally. His actions affect the world at large, he interacts and connects on some level with every character in the game, and we explore his own history and psyche. His has to be involved with the plot because HE IS THE PLOT!

Unlike Final Fantasy X, 7 really is Cloud’s story. It’s not his alone, the game is really an ensemble performances. But he is the central focus and that’s why he is the man character.

Tidus on the other had really adds nothing. He kills stuff. I guess but other than that he’s just obnoxious. In X the player genuinely explores Yuna and Auron in my much greater detail. That coupled with the fact that they are much more interesting characters even with their flaws and one does have to ask…….why the fuck couldn’t they be the main character instead of Dumass McTidus?!

Howe long have I’ve been waiting for this… Finally Episode 3. Thanks Spoony.

I would actually argue that Auron stays “sane” for the one reason that he really hates Yunalesca and the whole cycle of summoning. It feels like to stay human after your death you need a purpose, otherwise you turn to a monster. As far as we seen, most characters that are unsent feels they have a higher purpose and they don’t die. Seymore I don’t remember exactly (probably take over the world *of course*), but you have the summoner who teaches you how to fight because she feels she owes it to the living and *spoilers* the head maester feels he need to guide his flock (or maybe he just like the power) *spoiler ends*. Hell, some even argue that the wandering sage (Machean???) also are an unsent due to his nature of popping up everywhere and his reason for living is to talk about the history of the world.

DAMN SAAB!
I get that too, but if u keep reloading the page it will stop trying to play & u can get on w/ enjoying the Spoony goodness : )

did you just call him a twat? OH MY GOD i think he turning british D:

While I do disagree with the addition of Vuvuzelas to Blitzball, I do agree that an announcer like Andre would make it a better game. Just like the Gieco commercial says, he can make any sport seem interesting.

still, sacrificing a summoner to give the people 1-2 years of Sin free peace is better then saving a summoner and having the same 1-2 years consist of Sin wrecking shit.

Not saying there goal to find a permanent end to Sin is worthless, but if I lived in Spira I would prefer having at least some breathing space of Sin less time now and then till it´s found.

A very fitting final song!! Great episode, when I bought this game when it was first released I wondered why on earth it frustrated me so. You have set my mind at rest that I was perfectly rational to disagree with pretty much everyone else I knew who played it.
Loved the Black Lantern ending. Keep it going, you always cheer me up!

Have you completed the game?
by that i mean; found all the secret Aeons, completed the monster arena side quest anhd neat all the Dark Aeons.

One of the elements that have been showing up in the later Final fantasy games (7-13) is the fact that the main story isnt that hard.
this way those who play for the story are not stopped a few hours in, while the sidequests and hidden bosses are hard as all shit. this rule especially aplies to FFX.

Once you try beating Nemesis and Penance, you realise the level of strategy and preperation you need to complete this game.

Most epic intro EVA!!!! Vuvuzela! GOAL!!!!

Actually, you’re wrong Spoony – removing Van -would- need changes to the dialogue, like every single time idiotic bullshit comes out of his stupid mouth. Like, “Oh hey how old are you Fran lolol?” Ugh.

But this makes me realise that Square is also trying to make their male ‘heroes’ relatable ever since FFX as well, and has been failing utterly. Because not only do they need to be relatable, they still need to be a) likeable, b) heroic, and c) motivated. The only male lead who had these qualities was Reks from FF12 and they goddamn kill him in the prologue. Reks at least had a brave, noble motivation of trying to save his country; Van -openly admits- to having no motivation whatsoever.

Not to mention the problem that both FF10 and FF12 had two ladies who would be far more logical leads for the story, but they went with guys instead. Uh huh. *side-eyes Square*

Actually, you’re wrong Spoony – removing Van -would- need changes to the dialogue, like every single time idiotic bullshit comes out of his stupid mouth. Like, “Oh hey how old are you Fran lolol?” Ugh.

But this makes me realise that Square is also trying to make their male ‘heroes’ relatable ever since FFX as well, and has been failing utterly. Because not only do they need to be relatable, they still need to be a) likeable, b) heroic, and c) motivated. The only male lead who had these qualities was Reks from FF12 and they goddamn kill him in the prologue. Reks at least had a brave, noble motivation of trying to save his country; Van -openly admits- to having no motivation whatsoever.

Not to mention the problem that both FF10 and FF12 had two ladies who would be far more logical leads for the story, but they went with guys instead. Uh huh. *side-eyes Square*

Just because something’s aimed at kids doesn’t excuse sloppy writing. Batman: The Animated Series is one of my all-time favourite TV shows because the writing is so stellar, but it’s aimed at young audiences. Also, FFX got a T rating; it wasn’t aimed at kids per se.

And we all know how well THAT turned out. They were dealing with a giant sky-whale, and yet they contributed nothing aside from a few cannons against a being that, personification of the world’s sins or no, is nearly indestructible. Mi’ihen pretty much consisted of the Crusaders charging at it and then getting spectacularly curb-stomped.

I did just have an image of the Al Bhed rushing Sin wielding nothing but rifles, though. “We’ll succeed where the Summoners who’ve trained for years failed! FOR SCIENCE!”

The thing is, this might actually be considered humorous in Japan…

well there was one thing good about it, the combat system, though the story is really insipid

i’ve only read the first part and nothing but i have to say this: play Phantasy Star Universe, it opens and closes like an anime every chapter, like it really is an anime, the voice acting sucks though :P

You know, I played this game like, right when it came out. I think it was actually the last Final Fantasy I played. I didn’t finish it, but I didn’t think I’d gotten that farther into it either. I didn’t hate it, but it was completely forgettable. I have literally been watching this series of videos with that niggling sense of deja vu. I remember NO specifics about the game whatsoever, none of the plot points, but every time one of those ridiculous boss battles pops up, I go, “Oh, yeah, I remember grinding levels to beat that stupid thing”.

It’s kind of disconcerting that I lost apparently hours and hours of my life to gameplay of this thing, but the only aspect of it I remember is how frustrating some of the boss battles were. Man. People really enjoyed this? It’s like Cique du Plothole. I’m sure the original Final Fantasy games I played and enjoyed were much the same, but SERIOUSLY. Seriously?

Fight wimpy guards now, uber-undead Seymour later. I see the logic in that. -_-

how the hell did sin get underground.

wow your covering ground more quickly then your ff8 review. And yes tidus is annoying but he isn’t entirely pointless. He gets yuna to start looking for alternatives to the whole sacrificial lamb/messiah idea that doesn’t really work. the fayth made him for this purpose, because he’s not as bound by the teachings. And I read that the reason they didn’t do the badass protaganist was because the last effort failed miserably.

Umm Square Enix is NOT trying to make their main characters more relatable. They came out anc said when Final Fantasy XII was being made that they are no longer have a single main character. Final Fantasy 12 and 13 or clear examples of this ideology. Both games do not have just one main character. All character are equal in importance. Yes Van was pointless but in reality so was Lightning in 13 the only two important character was Fang and Vinnel.

The pieces of destroyed city the party was sitting on under the temple were the one’s you see sitting on Sin’s head. Since Sin can apparently appear anywhere in the world it wants, it was able to transport them to the desert before they fell off.

I just figured that out. It’s the only way I can, kind of, rationalize it.

By the way, the end scene of this review was quite possibly the most badass, hardcore thing I have ever seen.

Amazing! This might even be better than your FFVIII review.

Holy shit!

You’ve outdone yourself this time, Spoony!

Saw Constantine in theaters, got it on DVD, freakin’ love it. Recognized the Constantine version of Hell on sight. :D

the reason why i didn’t comment on the story part was that i realisedthat he didn’t understand what i said about Tidus and other elements; tidus is the link between Zanarkand and spira and if you take him away, Sin (Jecht) wouldn’t care if he destroyed the boat from Besaid and Kilika, and Yuna + party would be killed there, game over.there are hundreds of elements like if tidus was left out, Auron would be left out.
Would Yuna ever stand against Yevon’s teachings if Tidus didn’t affect her, what about Rikku? would she be a part of the team? would Wakka be less trusting off the measters? would Jecht let them get a chance in hell to kill him?
Tidus is more than a proxy for the male player demographic.

and if i would like to see you try to find all the items to create the best equipment to be able to take down the biggest foes, like finding the bribe amounts for the right monsters to get the right items while your “brain” is off. when i first got this game i didn’t have my own computer and no real internet access so i could just print out a walkthrough and go into auto-drive.

Ah, Final Fantasy X – - – I remember loving this game after it came out, but in retrospect of Spoony’s review – - – This game does not hold up at all. In fact, for all the bitching I did, and alot of other people did when Final Fantasy XIII came about how “linear” the game was, Final Fantasy X was just as linear, we were just fooled into thinking it was more open ended because of Blitzball.

And I never won a single damn game of Blitzball, it was fun to play, but I could never win the damn thing. I hate you Blitzball. I think the real problem with these JRPGS is that they are still constantly falling behind what american and european game companies are doing with their RPGS. Mass Effect 2, hell anything by Bioware, Bethesda, any of the smaller open world RPG guys, there really changing the idea of what ROLE PLAYING really is, not just building stats for some whiney emo git, (I’M LOOKING AT YOU HOPE FROM FINAL FANTASY XIII. MY TREE GROW OUT YOUR ASS!).

Spoony, another great review, keep up the good work. I hope my reviews could be as awesome as yours. I KNEEL BEFORE SPOON.

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I think the problem Mike, is that for some odd reason, this game is held so close to many people’s heart, just like Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII. Like bagging on FFX is like somehow insulting someone’s most sacred religious icon, and is punishable by death.

So many FF Fans, hold X in this sacred light, that they demanded a sequel to X, and we got the unholy abomination of X-2. It was the most unneeded sequel since Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore.

However, what’s really funny is that despite how much peole go apesheet over FFX, they lothe, I mean lothe, Final Fantasy XII, which I thought was a much stronger game in terms of freshness and innovation.

I almost died here.
“Happy festival fireworks.”
That was too much for me.

I always find myself to be surprised by Wakkas stupidity.

However, bad plot writing was not the main problem I had with the game. For me it was the main reason, that I could not bring up any sympathy for the characters since they were so boring and stupid.

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No more Tidussssesss.. Nooooezz! D:

YOU DID NOT BUY A TIDUS COSTUME! gosh I think i’m going to die if I see you in those lederhosen XD. Anyway, good review, I must say that I didn’t really see all those things that were wrong with it when first playing it (probably because I was much younger and didn’t really get it) but I started noticing in XII that the story was and especially the protagonist were weird, don’t get me started on XIII, I seriously HATE the characters. 20 hours in the game and I still don’t feel it.

YOU DID NOT BUY A TIDUS COSTUME! god, I think I’ll die if I see you in those lederhosen. Great review, and you certainly have some valid points. I played the game twice (yes, I did like it) and half of the things you commented on I hadn’t noticed. But I was much younger when I played it and I guess I liked almost anything on my playstation 2, since I finally talked my mom into giving one for my birthday (she was a huge Nintendo fan, but even she had to admit that most of the gamecube’s games weren’t that good). So I think I was a bit biased ;).

i know for a fact that yuna says when she jumps “I can fly”
it would be funny if you put a Mazes & Monsters joke there

Haha, I wander how many people understood that…

FATHER?! Thanks for giving away the chance to make a star wars joke

LOL most of the referential jokes you made would not have been relevent wen you did your first FFX review. Also their should be a white lantern Spoony that turns the black lantern spoony into happy sunshine and brings everybody including Aqua-man b ack from the dead.

HES BACK BABBY!!!!!

The church conspiracy is that ALL the leaders of the church were undead, something they kept to themselves to keep in power and prevent others from knowing that they were essentially immortal.

We don’t know how the guado found it, but then again we don’t know how long it was between the sin encounter and waking up. In the long run, it doesn’t matter. And they had no reason to expect the party would show up there. With later revelations in the game, it makes sense that the church would try to stamp out the non-believing Al Bhed just as they slaughtered a good portion of the Ronzo when their leader decides to leave the church.

For finding it, there is the possibility that some ship found Yuna and reported it and the Guado force found Home when they were looking for Titus and took advantage of the situation.

Jesus man, before you try and defend something, try using proper grammar. Whether you speak English naturally or not, you surely have heard of commas and periods; you’re whole post is a gigantic run-on sentence! It hurts to read! Besides, he’s a freakin’ critic! Tearing things a part for the fun of it is what they do; whether they like the subject matter or not. It’s all in good fun, so take some medicine and calm down.

Personally, I like X more now than I did back when it came out since all the more recent FF’s (X-2, XII, and XIII) all sucked horribly. X’s story was pretty sub-par, but trust me, after playing the more recent ones, you’ll actually start looking back on this one more fondly. Kudos for the great review; I’m looking forward to the next installment, whenever it may be.

If you say so. I would stunning if it was Basch. He is a much more interesting character and have a bit more of importance in the plot. So bad that they turn down Basch, damn hipster influences.

Ugh.

There’s a difference between snarky and bitchy. You’re WAY too bitchy lately.

Think I’ll go watch the FF8 review again…that was better.

Someone, quick, tell me how to get on Lulu’s “list”!

Yes! I’ve been waiting so long. And it’s so good. Spoony, you rock, and you’ve opened my eyes to how lame Tidus really is.

Let me translate this mess:

Hello Spoonyone, I enjoy your videos on Final Fantasy X, but you are beginning to anger me on your inability to understand how great this game is. Yes some of the voice acting is off, however at the time this game was produced Squaresoft was new to having voice acting in their games. Also, while I agree with some of your criticism, I contend that most of them are exaggerations.

For example, Wakka comparing the slaughter of Rikku’s home city to happy fire works. He was only trying to cheer her up and people often accidentally insult those they are attempting to cheer up. Yuna not sending Symore directly after the battle is simply a result of her being in shock. She was a dedicated Yevon worshiper and the sudden revelation it was all a lie caused her to stop thinking momentarily, thus giving Symore the opportunity to escape from right in front of everyone. Think about it, this world is dominated by a religious theocracy. She is completely unable to act after discovering her whole life is based on a lie and that’s why she didn’t finish him off.

These are only a few examples, do not mess with me and Final Fantasy games. I love all of them save Final Fantasy XII, and I will defend them religiously.

(Please put some thought and effort into your attempt to rile up controversy next time mister Callum Stanley-DeathsHead419)

Blarg, I finally got all of the best weapons in the game a while back, and you know what? Ruined the game. I had nothing left to achieve, I had done it all. Dodging the lightning and getting the Jupiter sigil/crest/goddamn blitzball one were the hardest things to do in the entire mini-arc. Getting 0 seconds chocobo racing was nothing next to dodging lightning and once you know the trick it’s ALL boring. What was left, beating the monsters at the ranch? Sorry, but I don’t have a personality capable of grinding. I still haven’t broken level 200 on Disgaea 1 OR 2, and I can pass 10,000? Nope, have a life, thanks. FFX2 is the same, I simply don’t have the patience necessary to max the dress-spheres or complete the Via.

Well, I was going to leave the secret to dodging lightning only if someone asked, but Spoony , you brought it up so prepare for PAIN! The trick is actually INSANELY easy, all you need are a piece of equipment with “no encounter” on it, you find one in the game for Rikku, and a nice little map found at Gamefaqs that shows where lightning strikes the most per minute. Equip the armor, go to the spot and STAY THERE. Keep a tally for lightning dodged, I usually make a mark for every ten, and once you hit fifty PAUSE. Get your ass up, get out, and do something else. Read a book, go for a walk, stare at the wall, something. Come back ten minutes later and repeat, you’ll have your 200 dodges hassle free in about an hour, I promise you.

As a South African I am ashamed that the Vuvuzela was created here.
Although it probably would make Blitzball make more sense.

Saaque si quiere ganar. Pero lo digo o no lo digo? Patido liquidado Don Niembro. El problema es que el arbitro va a suspender el

Damn. I find myself more intrigued by Black Lantern Spoony’s story than anything Square is throwing at me.

Still gotta say, Spoony, you should give FFIX a go, if only for the sake of playing the only 3D Final Fantasy game that features a main character that isn’t a) an emotional trainwreck who is either whiny or so emo and introverted that nobody really gets why the party gravitates to him as a leader in the first place, b) actually assumes the role of leader for the group and acts as the cohesive which keeps everyone together in the first place, and c) actually chases poon, as opposed to.. well.. all of the other 3D protagonists. The story is also a lot more coherant, and the technology makes sense and isn’t just inexplicably random, and the main villain is the second-most successful Big Bad in Final Fantasy history since Kefka.

haha you stole that baby crying part from redlettermedia, you sneaky bastard.

Seriously, how can you not like Zidane, hes an effortless womanizer, adventurer, always full of energy and grounds out almost every character. He teaches Vivi to stand up for himself, teaches Steiner to use his own judgement, along with inadvertently being his role model, teaches Eiko to be strong along with being the object of her fascination and lust, Amarant’s role model as the careless, cool, mellow and down-to-earth wander, Quina’s frog catcher extraordinaire, Freya’s spiritual comrade, and Dagger’s protector. He has every quality of a natural leader, doesn’t whine or bitch about things, has alot of initiative and enough intellect to premeditate his actions, is emotionally strong and stable(Uhm, Cloud and Squall anyone?), and has a meaningful relationship with all of the main characters. Not only that, but hes cool as hell and is very easy to relate to.

FF9 is my personal favorite out of the entire series. Its the only FF that has an incredibly strong replay value to me. And I’ve beaten every FF up to 11(First FF game I beat was FF1 when I was 5 back in 93, I didn’t look at the first half walk-through in the manual either). I feel like playing it through again, actually.

We need to start a petition or something to get Spoony to play and review 9, since no big name reviewer has done it yet.

ow ow

hey

I think I’m the only person that finds vuvuzelas amusing and kinda wants one so I can annoy my friends with it >:3

Am i the only one who’s terrified of the implications that in the next video we are going to see either spoony, miles, or another TGWTG presenter in a friggin’ tidus costume with a meg ryan wig on? a very human chill just ran up my spine.

Man, it boggles my mind how many people still defend this game. but then again, people still defend star wars and that is so far down the toilet it’s renting an apartment with the goldfish you flushed when you were 7. people will stick by anything if they can muster up enough nostalgia about it i guess. I, for example, can always find something nice to say about tranzor z or ultraman, despite the fact that i am completely aware it’s dog balls terrible.

well, you might be right that tidus is in fact a driving force to the story and important to the plot, but it really doesn’t matter because that story and plot…are terrible. it doesn’t really make a difference that tidus is more integral to it than spoony made out if the plot he is driving is complete cliche’d garbage. yeah things happen to characters, they develop, they change, but is any of it good? are any of these characters worth a shit in any of their incarnations? do they ever become anything more than the vapid, whiny, boring, poorly dressed, rediculous haird cardboard cutouts they were that i didn’t care about when the game started? is any of it worthwhile storytelling that makes you feel like you didn’t just waste 100 some hours of your life? no? then it’s still a pretty big fail, whether or not it’s the particular flavor of fail spoony said it was.

I hate to sound this juvenile, but it comes down to this. if your characters are stupid and ugly, and your story is crap, i don’t care how many twists and turns it takes, it’s still crap, regardless of how intricate. you mix one gallon of shit in with 99 gallons of ice creams, what you end up with is still a hundred gallons of crap nobody wants to eat.

holy shit….you’re right!!!! …tidus is so fucking useless, so annoying, so vapid and unpleasant, so downright hideous that, by comparison, he makes SQUALL look…compentent…. and likeable…and a stylin’ dresser…and EXTREMELY mascuiline…

….my mind is blown…

That is an awesome outlook on life. And damn it, I WILL keep thinking about meyer drunk on paint thinner! At least the one thing I know is that I can be persistent and hopefully (fingers crossed) one day I’ll get a break (I may start hoarding luck charms just to be safe… also maybe try to find the addresses of a few ancient gods of fate and blackmail them into helping me).

I can see how tough it must be to be a comic artist in this day and age, though. I mean, the thing about manga is that it really is an entirely different industry with a very different ethos from the comic industry, but it still gets mixed in with all graphic novels and makes it difficult for artists and writers on both sides of the page. It gets marketed and franchised similarly, and there’s such a large import of japanese manga (with a lot of the crappy shonen stuff getting in and leaving the good quality seinen stuff out in the cold) that it almost crashes the market and the results are mostly poorly translated (I read manga and I have to look for fan translations to actually get the right dialogue). When people like the fucking ULTIMATE WARRIOR can get comics published which are pure undiluted crap (as well as disturbing… poor santa) there is really something screwed on the scales of reality.

Here is my take on all the FF games, hoping to generate some sort of response

Final Fantasy 1 – 10/10 (I must have beat it half a dozen times.)
Final Fantasy 2 – 8/10 (The leveling system was HORRIBLE, but everything else was awesome!!!)
Final Fantasy 3 – 8/10 (Great game, few complaints, nothing too severe)
Final Fantasy 4 – 9/10 (Awesome game! Kane and Cecil pwn!)
Final Fantasy 5 – ? (never played it T.T)
Final Fantasy 6 – 10000000000/10 (Oh my god it’s full of stars… Q.Q)
Final Fantasy 7 – 7/10 (it’s a competent enough game, I was just bored playing it)
Final Fantasy 8 – 6/10 (boring, but playable)
Final Fantasy 9 – 9/10 (Awesome game ^.^)
Final Fantasy 10 – 9/10 (idk why I think so, i guess it’s nostalgia, but i think this game is just epic)
Final Fantasy 10 2 – 1/10 (only reason why it retains that 1 is because it isn’t Gundam SEED)
Final Fantasy 11 – ? (refuse to play it)
Final Fantasy 12 – 7/10 (same as FF7)
Final Fantasy 13 – 5/10 (uggh, dull as hell)

yeah! finally

I am in total agreement. The combat system was unique… problems was all clothing changes. The game would have been better with much more minor changes. See ’cause I hated most of how the classes looked on all of the girls so I couldn’t bring myself to use them, which made the game play so slowly. So I often ended up just throwing the controller down with bored rage and going outside… and I hate outside.

Good to know there are other artist that struggle under the oppression of the current lack of good sense and taste that is the current fiction environment. I had to sell my soul to get what little I have published and was forced to even take up a much less creative job (proofing, eww…) which pays strangely well. I might even decide to throw my hat into the editor pit fight one of these days. Although I have to second the never give up! Comics need fresh faces and styles, more now than ever. Although, hehe, I’m Japanese and still agree that most Manga and anime is made of shit and inked in urine. But there are always diamonds mixed in… which is a very disgusting image, I think I need to wash my brain out.

That’s because there is no argument about the story needed, either you love it or you don’t. From the view of someone that lives on the virtue of storytelling I found it lacking. And of course I do agree that nothing in FF X was really hard to find, defeat or otherwise slaughter.

Heh 5 is the one I’ve replayed the most.
It’s short and the job system gives it great replayability imo.
Think I’ve finished it up to 6 times now.
It’s not my favourite though. That would probably be IX or VI.

OMG~! Quick Spoony~! I want to see you dress up as Tidus~
I’ll will Screenshot the shit out of it and print them so i can paste them on my wall and dream about you~
>_<~♥

Hmm, I liked FFX but i have no idea why i liked it… I need to play it again…
Just because Spoony is reviewing it and Lulu’s big funbags~

But I heard that many people in Japan love the story and they don’t talk about the game mechanics, despite the fact that they know Tidus is dum whiny kid. I saw lets play of this game in order to check out the story, and even though I noticed not all what Spoony said are correct, there are still awkward and non-sensical moments in this game.

P.S its alright, I’m not a native speeker either.

I think, if you dodged the lithning 200times you got some armor for Lulu. Best time in my life…..

I was talking more about Hope than I was about Tidus. Even the fact that he’s their pawn because he has a reason to kill Sin is worthless when we have Auron, who also has a reason – to finish the task he failed at the first time and bring peace to his friend. That would have been easier to follow rather than all of that “living dream” bullshit that I foolishly tried to wrap my head around in the wee hours. Tidus doesn’t even fill the role of “swordsman”; Auron has that down. If they had to have him, let him take Wakka’s place as the Blitzballer. He’s meant to be a natural at it, and you get rid of another annoying prick. Win-win!

Yeah, sometimes you gotta make some shitty compromises to get your stuff out there, and that never feels good, but you gotta just sort of look at it as “this is me paying my dues, this is me putting up with all the shit so that when i get my break and i get some money, I can start making the rules about what goes out and what doesn’t”. it seems hollow to say when you’re a long way off, but just remember, if you hang in there long enough, you’ll eventually be in a position to start making decisions, and fixing all the industry problems that plagued you when you first started. that’s my goal, and it’s taking time, but i’m making progress. it will happen

and about tossing your name into the editor hat…you should really think about it. editors are the guys who get the final say (at least in the major industries, some of the smaller ones are more democratic it seems) and that’s the position you need to be in to start making real changes. I’d been reading through your comments up higher on the list about FFX and you sound like a smart guy, who at the very least knows a good story (and by proxy a bad one with plot holes so big you could fly the highwind through them) when they see it, and people like that are the ones that need to be making the final calls on this stuff, not douchebags who consider pokemon to be the height of japanese media output for no other reason than it has sold the most lunchboxes and backpacks for the little urchins over here. we need people who are more concerned with telling a story and putting out a good product than they are about tieing in a trading card game and a mcdonalds happy meal toy.

the last time they tried the badass the game flopped. they didn’t want a mistake so from marketing it wasn’t a horrible point of view

WAAHH WAAAAHHH WAAHHHHHH!!!

The plot of FFX doesn’t make sense to me either, and I’m pretty sure it’s not some kind of cultural gap that “you obviously don’t understand neither it, not what is this is about”. Uhhh…huh.

Hell yea, FF6 BEST FF GAME EVAR!

I would like a Spoony FF9 review but it would be too good and won’t be as funny. Maybe it could be a Vlog review where he can give it major props would work for me. ^_^

X-Death’s funniest side is that he is basicly… a tree. But when he makes his appearance, it’s a rather epic scene. And throughout the game he has the whole “You are no match for me!” thing going on.. and he has all the right for it, untill the final fight of the game, they only managed to injure him. And one his minions has become a legend and a recurring character.

Well, your opinion is your own. Don’t see why you’d feel the need to say sorry for it. Protip: Not every fan is a shrieking moron like FF7 and FF8 fans.

Hey, wouldn’t it be awesome if Seymour’s last name was Butts? No? FUCK YOU GUYS!

*runs off crying*

I love you.

Good…I was getting tired of those dongly things not working and clogging up my closet.

Black Lantern Spoony is one evil bastard for bringing us Tidus.

LOL But I don’t like FF X-2 and I like original Spoony (even if clone is doing the same thing) =)

Final Fantasy is the funniest of the Spoony series, if you don’t appreciate it you either have no sense of humor or are coming to this website for the wrong reasons.

Boo hoo somebody is picking on my game that i have a boner for, so what, i hated the Final Fantasy series (except 7) and this is good therapy for me because growing up in a world where all your nerd friends think FF8 is a great game can be infuriating.

The games suck, bro, they usually have a retarded plot with retarded characters and seriously i don’t understand why people would throw their time away playing this garbage.

All that aside it isn’t like Spoony hasn’t given bad reviews to things i liked, and yet i didn’t bitch about it.

imagine that.

Trust me, I can ramble on for literally hundreds of pages (and I have *wince*). But damnit, ranting is good for the soul! It stops you from re-enacting the Manson murders… Ouch! My keyboard just jumped up and hit me!

I really can’t stand to see what the western market does to comics, anime, manga, and hell, just visual and written media in general. I mean, if you’re reading manga, then you MIGHT have a chance at getting something close to the original once it’s been processed through marketing, but if you’re looking for anime… do I even need to go into the kind of murder 4kids has done to shonen and shoujo-type anime? They have taken ENTIRE arcs and plots, dialogue and ideas and re-worked them to fit into some kind of shoddy “western values” crap that is really only about indoctrinating kids for some fucked-up ideology that makes less than no sense (because obviously what spin the corporate executives put on series at a moment’s glance is so much superior to what the creators have spent months and years working and thinking about). There are so many things that are just BUTCHERED. 60% of my favourite anime and manga were teeth-pulling hard to get because a lot of the really good works that can easily stand on their own on artistic merits are brushed aside by the companies that import and translate anime and manga in favour of 300 episodes of Naruto filler (… I’m not even going to go INTO what I hate and can’t stand about that because I may just bash my own head in over it). Forget even trying to get copies of light novels without needing a japanese-english dictionary, a chart of kanji, and a romanised translation *facepalm*.

Aaaand then we come to english written mediums. Science-fiction/fantasy (which is, unfortunately, where all my writing and manuscripts fall into) is… the entire genre is sinking under the weight of crappy faux-goth vampire fics marketed entirely to fourteen year old girls! I mean, for fuck’s sake! At my local Borders bookstore, the entire ground floor level used to be devoted to sci-fi/fantasy… now HALF (literally half!) has been taken up by titles such as “The Vampire Diaries.” And god-forbid you try to get these kids to read a vampire novel halfway decent (like, I don’t know, the old Anne Rice? The original Dracula? You, know, books WHICH HAVE A POINT! (which, by the way, are all stuck in the corner under “horror” where no one actually goes)). You see writers like Philip Dick, Ian Banks, and Arthur Clark shoved around the side, and it is painful. My little sister has Twilight posters but doesn’t know who George Orwell is (and she’s now 17). At this point, I’d be happy if she read Harry Potter. It may be badly-written, childish, and commercial but next to the self-pitying, purple prosed, mary sue, author insert, brain-killing drivle that is twilight, it reads like Dostoyevsky. I even understand that reading some light-hearted, fun, trash is great once in a while… but twilight is pathetic, stupid, and celebrates such shallow, emo, weak and superficial writing that it makes me want to burn every copy in existence. Every fiber of my being is screaming to KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE! And, unlike Buffy (which even the show itself admits is cheap, action-flicky, comedic and generally harmless (if annoying)), twilight takes itself seriously. It’s obvious that meyer actually thinks this is what good writing looks like.

It seems like there’s a race going on between the different visual and written mediums to see who can reach the lowest point first. It would probably be possible to set up a betting pool and at least make some cash off of the slumming of our respective mediums. I suppose we all just have to remind ourselves that throughout the history of the human race there has been popular trash, but it hasn’t lasted through the ages, and it won’t stand the test of time.

… I am going to be so pissed off through if I die before any of my stuff is sold. I swear if that happens I WILL come back from beyond the grave and haunt the fuck out of every single publishing house on the planet!

His son is an ultimate lifeform (experiment). It’ll come bouncing right back up on it’s little feet…tentacles..thingy…

haha yes, i love FF6 with a passion!

Dear Jesus, is their anyone else that haven’t commented?!

He must mean the Guado guards that facepalm into Tidus’s sword and die in 1 hit. And I’m still gonna call him Tie-dus, not Tee-dus, just like I call the protagonist from FF5 Butz and not Bartz. They did a bad job translating it, and its what I grew up calling them. Whoever is doing the translating needs to learn english first(wait… no, nevermind. I just thought of Zero Wing… lol disregard that)

Why does everyone always say “you don’t get it” when you don’t like something that they do? as if the only possible reason in the world to dislike it would be a complete failure to grasp it as a concept, that there couldn’t possibly be any fault in the original product, therefore YOU are the one with the problem for not liking it, for not being able to fully appreciate the cosmic wonder that is this stupid fucking thing they hold so dear.

well, i got news for ya. People can hate something because sometimes it’s bad, sometime’s it makes no sense, and sometimes it just isn’t your speed, all of which are valid reasons and do not require me to “understand” some little piece a shit because someone else happens to like it. You wanna like it, fine, but don’t tell anyone they are stupid for not agreeing with you, and for the love of god, don’t tell people what they do or do not understand

I don’t like cabbage, that doesn’t mean i “just don’t get what cabbage is all about” I just fucking don’t like it.

Is Spoony saying “Seymor is an obvious villain” in terms of his appearance or what he has done so far? Seymor acted out like a good guy in order to hide his true nature and rule his people without being noticed about his plan. The attack of Anima was for killing those monsters, which released by himself. He told to the protagonist’s group that he is perusing for piece around the world. I got to admit that he looks evil and his tone makes us to think like he is up to something no good, but that is not going to be an evidence to prove Seymor’s sin. We just can’t say something like “I don’t like his appearance so let’s kill him” right?

I went through Phantasy Star Universe, if for no other reason than I loved the Mega Drive games. Err Genesis I guess… I keep forgetting that the world couldn’t make up their minds and agree on what to call system back in those days.

*feeling his already sizable Ego grow three sizes this day*

Working in proofing is like being a sewage worker, I clean up shit all day. Most Editors don’t even do their own reading anymore, not in big publishing firms, they have us slobs to do the dirty part of the work. That is reading some manuscript that has never seen a spell check, which in modern computer word processors is baffling, and then pass on a copy with all the little mistakes outlined. I’m in the same building as the editors when I go into the office but not the same floor, if you get the joke and image.

Oh and I completely agree with you, art isn’t about money. It is about…err… *ponders for a bit* Art I guess? Tis the sad fact these days that art somehow needs to equal money in the minds of modern thinkers. Look at movies for one, if they win a bunch of Oscars then they must be good right? But like most other awards Oscars are bought rather than won. Which is sad.

That last bit with Dark Spoony was better acted, better produced, better written, more dramatic, and far more entertaining than this entire game combined.

Hi I’m a Japanese American, born in Japan and relocated to America. I also hate Final Fantasies VII, VIII, X, X-2, XII and REALLY hate Final Fantasy XIII. I find them to be insulting the intelligence of the player with plots that tend to dead end and then sudden whatever Deus Ex Machina appears and uses its magic wand (toxin, Mako, whatever) to get the plot moving again for another 4 to 5 hours until it grinds to a halt again.

I hardly ever play the English Version of any of these games so I can safely say it isn’t a language thing either, not really anyway.

But calling all those “American” games trash is a bit perplexing since a good portion of the Ultima games were made in Canada. So were Wizardry and “Magic and Magic” from what I recall. Are you just saying that all games made outside of Japan are garbage? God of War was garbage (well a little in the later games but…)? How about Fallout? Fallout 2? These are all great games without the plot issues that main of the Final Fantasy games have had.

Japanese RPGs are basically very complex Manga or Anime you see. Interactive Anime without all the naughty sex that comes from other interactive forms of Anime. Final Fantasy hasn’t, for at least the last 10 years, been the best JRPGs have to offer. The wonderful Tales of (insert world name here) series is a must play for fans for both anime and JRPGs. Final Fantasy can’t compete was that series in storytelling so it has gone for Graphics.

You see when an RPG series starts to focus on the visual rather than the Storytelling it suffers and insults your intelligence at the same time. “HEY! Look at the shinny keys! Ignore the man behind the curtain! Look Bloom effects! Wow look at all the flashing colors!” Not that having poor graphics makes your game good… I’m looking at you Resonance of Fate!

IDK why but when Dr. Insano said “The wheels of science are always turning!” I laughed like an idiot. XD Rly nice work Spoony. Only problem, you make us wait too long for a new part to the review. Try to make em weekly or every 2 weeks or w/e.

While funny I think there are some point being left out when reviewing a game such as this. From the remarks made you are assuming that the characters we are playing as come from the same society from us when that is clearly not the case. It’s sort of the sense of ignorance most of society may have today basing their belief’s on another culture without getting a full idea of that culture.

With regards to Tidus, honestly how composed could you be if you yourself were thrown into another world and everyone you ever knew just disappeared aside from Auron. That’s what Tidus has to deal with so while people may say he’s bitchy and whiney there really is a reason behind it. The character would be kinda flat if they were the heroic oh I’m in a new world time to save the world deal. Tidus is basically a foreigner in a new land attempting to cope with his situation as well as understand the customs of the people. From his mindset a lot of what he sees he may deem obscene but in the eyes of the other charcters, because of their culture and beliefs accept it for what it is.

No matter how goofy Seymour may look, to the other characters he’s seen as a leader figure, as ones who may not have liked Bush, or to nations with Communistic leadership while we may not like it here to the people they either pay no mind to it or deal with it. Though in terms of communism they lived more in tyranny where some do seek refugee however when it comes to the world of Spira, from what I remember there really was no sense of tyranny. If I remember correctly the whole ideal of Spira was a land that basically lived in peace and at times when Sin came the people had no need to worry as the Summoner would handle it. Though even with the summoner handling it there are those who still try to fight Sin no matter how futile it may be.

Even though one may say the needs of many outweigh the needs of one, it’s still hard to accept when it’s closer to you. In terms of Rikku, the reason why she wanted to stop Yuna was because they were family(even though they do use some aggressive tactics to try and take her which in itself is funny cause then they end up shedding more blood just to save the one girl). That again comes to putting yourself into the mindset, how accepting would you truly be if you were aware that by sacrificing the one you cared for the most would save the lives of many.

Again everything comes to the ideal of cultural differences, just because we may find something to be batshit insane and wonder wtf they are thinking, you have to remember they come from a different culture and have to realize the mindset they are in. Wakka lost his brother cause of failed machina, while silly in itself there have been odder moments of grudges made from others lol. Wakka also has a dedicated belief to what he does and even if he himself may not like the idea of Yuna being a sacrifice he still accepts it because it’s in his faith, which could be drawn back to how sacrifices would be used to please the gods, while some may backlash like Rikku and say “no don’t do this” on the otherside you’ll have Wakka who has the same ties as Rikku may have in terms of how close they are to Yuna accept the fact that the needs of many outweigh the needs of one.

The part with when they could’ve sent Seymour to the otherside is odd but it could also be seen as a conflict of feelings. On one side you have Yuna dealing with a situation about the marriage proposal and how it would’ve united Spira more and at the same moment the Guado come to take their fallen leader away. It was only Auron that tried to get Yuna to perform the sending it probably could’ve been handled better to avoid him into coming back to bit them in the ass. in that sense though i think Auron realize that at that point to perform such a sending would put an even huge damper on their reputation then they already had which is why in the end they didn’t forcefully try to get Seymour sent.

I will agree with you though no matter what view you may take on the destruction of Rikku’s homeland/town the way Wakka handled it was pretty bad.You do have to wonder what was going through his head when he thought of saying that.

Overall though I’m just trying to point out the idea of cultural differences and how ones personality may be affected by the way they are brought up. To base a stories possible plotholes or poor characters because you perceive their way of thinking as illogical in a sense is ignorant.What makes stories engaging is when you can see the characters, their culture and how it effects who they are as a person. It’s like saying why is it in a medieval times based game is the character being such a pussy toward the King and following every order they are requested. it’s because that character has an allegiance towards the King and will most likely follow any order they receive no matter what they think of it in fear of death. Now if you were to think the way the characters in X act are bad then you’d also have to say that the character which is acting like a pussy towards the king is also a bad character since you yourself wouldn’t act that way towards them. Heck even the burning of witches while now as a society we may find it to be completely obscene that such a thing ever occurred, it is a fact that it did happen. Cultures and the way people think change overtime and if you truly wish to understand the most out of things like rpgs that take place in a different realm from the cultures of earth, you have to take off your personal culture hat and prepare to put yourself into the mindset of the characters. While it’s easier to make fun of others because of their culture it only leads to wars and bloodshed. And yes I do realize it’s silly to get into such a philosophical idea of cultural differences but it’s something that I believe people overlook at times and because of it they end up missing the bigger picture of the story. While some stories may end up with the same conclusion isn’t it more fun when you can actually understand the culture and it’s relation to the overall story then to just make fun of it because they think differently then you?

This may have already be brought up, but I can help explain at least the confusion of where Sin was and how they got to the desert. First off, Sin was in the lake. It’s only part of the lake that is hollowed out by the song of the Faith. So Sin was in the lake the whole time listening to the song. They bring up on multiple occasions that Jecht liked the songs. It’s also possible that Sin was following them. As for how they were transported, they have already shown that Sin has the ability to carry people to other places. And, while it may be hard to believe, Macalania Temple and forest isn’t that far away from the desert island of the Albed. While one is a desert and one is frozen, they mention that Macalania is only frozen because of the song of the Faith that Shiva sings. So they actually weren’t transported half way across the world. However, the time frame in which it all happens and the nature of how Sin transported them is still up in the air. Just thought I could help explain the distance problem a little bit.

My assessment of the game

Zanarkand – Luca: Meh

Luca to Bevelle: Meh with several really awesome bits (7/10)

Calm Lands to End: Epic (9/10)

The third act always struck me as epic because it is the only part that genuinely exceptional. At this point in the story Tidus is no longer the immature whiner that he was at the start of the story, but a smarter, more mature, more intelligent, and more responsible individual. He does have his moments, but they are relatively rare. It’s also the part where it feels like he belongs (influencing Yuna not to do the Final Summoning) rather then being shoehorned. His final actions are genuinely selfless and heroic (helping to defeat Sin for good and freeing the land from fear even though it means he will fade away forever despite opportunities to try and run). It also makes genuinely good points (you shouldn’t try to decieve people with false hope even if it makes them feel better because sometimes it leads to more suffering). In short, he goes out with style and without being a bitch.

The concept of Tidus isn’t horrible, but the execution is: James Arnold Taylor’s voice acting was just not good enough and as such he came across as a whiny bitch. As a result, the more important aspects (Tidus’s evolution into a mature young man) and the fact that he was in an unfamiliar environment having had everything snatched from under him (making his actions somewhat understandable, but still rather irritating) tend to be less noticable. I honestly believe that a different voice actor could have made the character more relatable (No offense James Arnold Taylor, but here you simply just weren’t the right guy for the job).

As for seymour being obviously evil: If something doesn’t fit into your worldview, people don’t consider it. Seymour is one the most powerful individuals in the church that has set the moral standard for the past 1000 years, and quite a few of the party members are rather devout. The idea of a moral authority being a corrupt bastard was a concept they simply couldn’t fathom; look at how many tried to downplay the atrocities at abu gharib. It’s stupid yes, but it is an established human trait. Tidus was new to the yevonite faith, as such he wasn’t as blind to the truth (hence why he didn’t trust seymour.)

to be honest, having never played this game. I always did think Yuna was the man character. Oh wells. I agree with you alot of the motivations are retarded. Who the fuck marries a felon to get him to confess to a murder?

By the way, the Blitzball might not actually be the least fitting weapon in the whole series, I’d say that title goes to… Cards. There are two FF games that have cards as a weapon. Final Fantasy 6, one of Setzer’s weapons. And in Final Fantasy Tactics A2 cards are an actual weapon group… What the crap does throwing a card at an enemy do?

Oh God, Vuvuzela’s and that commentator.

Great job Spoony again anyway. Keep it coming.

Ahem. I’ll do the honors USUL HAS CALLED A BIG ONE!
AGAIN IT IS THE PROPHECY!

Tell that to Gambit!

Spoony never rip on FFVII. Not cuz I like it or anything ( I find it very overrated IMO) but I fear that your life would be in danger from the angry fanboys. The die hearts can be a little crazy sometimes. After FFVIII I gave up on the games… then tried to rekindle my love with XIII *sigh* then played my cousins FFIV again to remember what the games were. I wish I could have played the old games as they came out =/ Oh well. Anyway keep ripping post VII ones apart! One day I hope you vlog XIII or review that game like VIII and X .If you rip apart VI ( though I got a feeling you like VI. I know you like IV you spoony bard) I’ll take it like a man and deal with it. I seem to agree with you most of the time anyway.

I think I figured out why so many FF fans hated FF12.

It was subtle in its narrative and characterization, unique in its combat system (at least, unique in the sense that it was not turn-based/ATB), had excellent voice acting, and had more of a focus on gameplay with cinematics playing a smaller role. Almost the polar opposite of the “highly acclaimed” FFX.

Enter fanboys. Commence shit-storm.

FF12 was different, perhaps too different for your average FF fanboy to appreciate. An awfully strange concept when you consider that Final Fantasy used to be a series that ‘reinvented itself’ with each new installment.

Then FF13 launches. Possibly the safest Final Fantasy to date. A return to the ATB system but this time, with AUTO PILOT. Not to mention the ridiculously unlikable characters, far worse than X. You want cutscenes? 13 is full of them. Want a convoluted storyline? 13 is probably the most convoluted and ridiculous to date. So much so that they need to make an encyclopedia of misc facts outside of the already numerous cutscenes for the sake of ‘moving the plot forward’… WHAT?

The FF series has been dead to me well before X. While 12 is still a personal favorite of mine, knowing that the FF series will never make a bold move like that again, I’ll just consider it an unofficial sequel to Vagrant Story.

Thanks for criticizing this stinker Spoonyone :)

you are quite right, i once told a guy dressed as cloud to fuck off and FF7 is not legendary and i got a pussy hit from a plastic sword.
now imagine a thousand plastic swords… spoony only has his one gunblade

Now don’t let me give you the impression i’m trying to insult you by saying this, i swear i’m totally not. you have extremely well thought arguments (maybe some of the most so i have EVER seen defending the ff series) and god, i can’t tell you how awesome it is that you disagree with the review but are posting your disagreements like a rational adult and have not insulted anyone’s parents…I mean seriously good fucking job man…er…woman…i’m honestly not sure, but good job none the less

but i think the argument about the taking the culture for granted thing falls flat for this reason: the culture is fictional, and in fact, not a very well thought out one. oh sure they natter on about it endlessly, trying to over explain every wierd little facet of their world, but really they tell us nothing. we don’t really understand who’s in charge and why, how the governments, countries or even really ethnic groups relate to one another. we know there are multiple races on the planet, but we don’t know how many, if they are sentient, do they have countries of their own? etc etc.

while it’s true, a lot of people immediately dismiss other cultures in real life that results in complications and misunderstandings, it’s not really fair to accuse one of doing that to a fictional culture, in which there is not really that much to get in the first place. for example, i don’t even fully understand what the role of a measter is. seymour seems to rule the world for all intents and purposes, but i don’t think he’s royalty, i doubt he was elected, and i’m not even sure what he does in the role. he’s a summoner and a sorcerer, but we never really learn to what extent and how him being a summoner relates to yuna being a summuner and how they seem to do the job completely differently and …i’m sorry, i could go on, but you get my point. this world, while seeming very deep and fleshed out on the surface, from the sheer volume of spaghetti they throw at the wall, hoping it will stick, it really is pretty undeveloped. so it’s pretty natural not to understand something that was never really explained to us in the first place

now i actually agree with you about the whole “regardless of the fact that seymour is OBVIOUSLY evil, people would still listen to him” thing. the entire world has been ruled by a massive variety of scum, all shapes and sizes, and a suprisingly large number of people haven’t complained, still all over the world to this day, this happens, so i am totally not surprised seymour could …stay in office? i guess…not sure what he does, but i could see him getting away with it

and i also agree about being willing to sacrifice a LOT of innocent lives to save someone you really care about, hell, i’d probably do it if it was the right person. so that does make sense dramatically, i just think it was handled poorly in the actual story. it isn’t made clear enough and it just comes off as boneheaded selfishness on rikku’s part. this could have been a really dramatic revelation, but since it’s never explained, and told between a living breathing jailbait fanservice fapping aid and essentially a functioning retard pokemon trainer, we never really feel the emotional weight that shoukd come with a revelation like that. (actually i’m surprised no one has made the comparison between aeons/guardian forces/ summons and pokemon yet…think about it…it’s kinda creepy)

and again, the sendind seymour thing, i can see your point about the mixed feelings and conflicted emotions about the heros not quite being sure how to go about it and if it’s the right thing or not, but again, it just was not explained at all and again, without any sort of clear explanation of why, it just seems like boneheaded laziness on yuna’s part

i think that’s actually the whole reason i don’t buy your explanation of cultural differences motivating their strange decisions, becuase nothing is explained clearly enough to make you understand that’s why they are doing, why something is just the way you do it in this alien world. they treat it like it follows the same rules as our would does, so we treat the characters the same way we would if someone we knew did what they did. like what you said about the knight being a total spineless slave to the king’s orders being hard to understand outside of the medieval system, but at least we are given some form of frame of reference to the fact that “no matter how much you disagree with this decision, he has no choice or it will mean server consequenses for him, this is how it is done, this is how it is always done by everyone in this world” and we never really get anything like that in terms of life in spira. ya know what i mean? at the end of the day all we really know about the citizens of spira is that they have terribly fashion sense and are HUGE fans of this rediculous watersport. the real problem is that, we never see the other characters in the world sort of justify these boneheaded decisions by backing it up with their alien traditions that dictate why they do this. in fact, many times the other characters act like it’s just as dumb a thing to do as we the audience thought it was. it’s just very inconsistant. i totally see what you’re seeing, and how it could have worked in the hands of a more talented creative team, but as is, it’s just…flat. it all comes off as just senseless and wierd, with no real context. and besides, if the fictional culture of spira somehow raises people to think it’s ok to do some of the shit these characters do…then it must an odd place indeed haha

anyway, i hope i didn’t come off as insulting, because it was not at all my intention. but since you took such time to thoughtfully explain your point, i wanted to try and do the same for the inverse. (not that others haven;’t already, i’m sure i’m just repeating other people below me anyway, prob. a good bet)

and thank you again, for being so damn intelligent and courteous. the trolls could learn a thing or two from this sort of thing, eh? :)

Maybe. But that is strangely off topic. I didn’t say anything about Halo Reach. Why would I? The Halo series isn’t my thing but I’ll admit they are popular and pretty much the best in non-PC shooters. In fact I would go so far as to say the best in console shooters. I’m a PC gamer when it comes to shooters so I have higher expectations but I can’t complain about Halo much and Reach I can’t seem to come up with any complaints at all. That might mean it is very good. Or it could mean I just like it.

But Halo aside. My point is this; In the future if things continue and we keep accepting mediocre titles without challenge soon enough all games, RPGs, Action/Adventure, Shooters, will end up like Hollywood movies. All flash and no bang. Product placement in all game. FF XX, characters equipped with shields with the Coke symbol on them and such. Games that are just a copy of the last, time and time again.

We have the right to demand better games, better storytelling in those games, and WE control the market, Halo Reach aside.

The only good RPG’s to come out lately have all been on computer. Actual consoles? You’re shit out of luck.

Cards can at least be fitted with a sharp metal casing around them (these actually exist) so you can throw them with the sharpness of a knife and effectively have a shuriken. Volleyballs? Naw.

Great reviews but when Seymour proposes you missed the opportunity to use “Suddenly Seymour” at that time.

The main problem with the “church conspiracy” in FFX is that the entire religion of Yu Yevon is a completely transparent farce. For instance, if machina are forbidden, then why do they guard the gates of Bevelle (which is the capital city no less), and why do they roam around freely in the city’s Cloister of Trials? Like Spoony said earlier in his review, there is no subtlety in this game.

Contrast this to Final Fantasy Tactics, where the corruption in the church was handled in a way that actually helped the storyline.

“well, i got news for ya. People can hate something because sometimes it’s bad, sometime’s it makes no sense, and sometimes it just isn’t your speed, all of which are valid reasons and do not require me to “understand” some little piece a shit because someone else happens to like it. You wanna like it, fine, but don’t tell anyone they are stupid for not agreeing with you, and for the love of god, don’t tell people what they do or do not understand.”

That’s funny, Spoony has already used the “you don’t get it” defense already. Are you aiming this little rant on Spoony as well?

it’s a stupid response no matter who says it. even spoony. what? you think because i’m a fan i can’t acknowledge that it’s not fair for him to do it too?

I resent the idea of idea of being told I “don’t get” something because i happen to disagree with someone who likes it. you can like something, or you can hate it. you can disagree with me about either point, and you can try to explain why i should come around to your point of view, or you can just think i’m an ass for being so disagreeable, but one thing you do not do, is decide what i do and do not understand, and insult my (and everyone else who doesn’t see it your way) intelligence and act as if some stupid game is some complex math problem of which the high concept is just ABOVE that of a mundane IQ such as mine. it’s ignorant. and it annoys me.

Final Fantasy sucks balls, get over it fanboys. stop telling everyone else that they “don’t get” your masterpiece. your masterpiece about water polo, terrible clothes and the most boneheaded decisions imaginable. no, really you’re right…i just don’t get how a mincing, assymetrical pantsed hermaphrodite with frosted meg ryan tips has garnered so many people to defend him.

I’m sorry, i am usually not this rude or confrontational, and for that i apologize. but seriously, stop telling me what i do and do not get. I “get” that i don’t like it. i tried it, i gave it a fair chance, and wasted a lot of hours of my life i won’t get back. I decided i didn’t like it, i didn’t need spoony’s permission to hate it…and as a matter of fact, i don’t need yours either

Haha!
Your aeons…
I like their names they are similar to my own; Pukepale, Shitsock, and Jockitch~ (I hate those stupid aeons…)

I’m just so happy to read this forum because for ONCE, people say that they liked Final Fantasy XII which was my favorite final fantasy game, it wasn’t gay and a melodramatic love story between an emo kid and a dumbass. (Final Fantasy VIII) It was a mature game which was relieving to see, it was better than this game by far.

Even though this game wasn’t that bad, but the characters for me were just lackluster like Yuna, the girl who had the personality of a dial tone or just really really dumb and useless especially Rikku and Tidus.
The gameplay was very good though, I will give it that…

That is funny because lackluster is the exact word i would use to describe FF 12.

I agree about fps’s. They are all the same fucking game over and over. At least jrpgs had some verity. This is why i don’t own a current gen console.

The Tales series are a good one. Vesperia especially.

I feel dirty saying this but after rewatching the whole FFX rant series.. I started play FFX again v.v I can’t help it! There’s nothing good coming out anymore. I just need to remember to go.. like.. fix a sandwich or pee when I can’t mash X to skip dialog.

P.S: 12 and 13 are still far, far worse than this one from a game play perspective. At least X doesn’t autopilot you through every fight >.>

Surprised that you’ve yet to mention how the characters nationality changes drastically from stylized white anglo saxon to stylized asian depending on whether or not they’re in a cut scene.

So much love for the vuvuzela intro, man.

on the other hand vaan does have cool moments and penelo isn’t useless either (she probably influenced Larsa in a way that made him more adult. It forced him to realize his bro wasn’t perfect.)

I gave up a while ago… I haven’t bought a console game since FF XIII, which I bought for the sole reason of making my opinion valid. I knew it was going to be bad and I bought it from Japan because I wanted to play it before the American voice acting happened. Really though the American voice acting was just about as good as the Japanese in FF XIII… they both had to suffer with the lines.

I know it won’t be an overnight thing but like I said. We are all to blame for how games are, not the massive companies that design all games by committee and assume we’ll like it.

Might as well join me in the “I spent thousands of dollars on all these console and they aren’t even plugged in anymore” club… *sighs and cries a little*

Wuwuzelas need to die in a napalm fire.

I know that the storyline sucks, but the epic music during Tidus’ feminine whining is a freaking awesome variation of “To Zanarkand.”

Oh. And Cid sounds like Soldier from TF2.

Can I have your children? :)

Can I have your children? :)

On a sidenote related to the mention of how pointless Vaan was in 12, you’re dead on. Balthier was originally intended to be the main character, Japan had a hissy fit that he wasn’t a completely androgynous jackass showing a ton of skin, so Vaan was created. Penelo’s role was changed from Balthier’s fangirl to Vaan’s childhood friend.

y’know these actually made me start playin ff10 and even though i think these jokes were funny cause they were out of context, they are still hilarious. dude keep it up. (even though i actually kinda like the game) meh i have played worse.

Spoony… I must confess something… I think I fell in love with you <3 Alas, I'm a married woman… :(
Oh, well, I have to play FFX once again to laugh even more at this game :D

just fyi: evidently you can’t tell a good video game if it came up and molested you with it’s awesomeness. please do yourself a favor and stop playing video games now.

In other news… WTB next part :P

Yuna and Tidus are probably the lamest thing that could have happened to this (or any, for that matter) game.
I do agree Auron is the only interesting guy there. I mean story about the journey of Braska and his gang seems a lot of cooler and more interesting.
I like the system in the game and as much as i try.. i can’t bare the crappy romance theme. The villain in this game is so lame it makes you want to just laugh him out and go pass him like nothing happens…
(btw you can just use steel on Seymour’s guado guards.. and they are suddenly out of ALL their potions – stupid, yet convenient)

At 6:39: Yeah and you know what I call that joke? OLD!! Also, why is the main Count gag so inclusive? Number’s 18-21 shouldn’t count! That’s like pointing out someone’s butt in a wedding dress or hiding behind a curtain! What’s so important about Auron anyway? He leads the characters into a trap, does practically nothing when shown on-screen and he looks lame: there’s no reason why you should be defending such a pointless character! Hell, you haven’t even made any jokes or comments about Kimari! Please tell me you’re going to sleep on Part 4′s script for a year or two, Spoony; you used to be so funny.

I don’t think you’re meant to take his reviews seriously. I watch it for the lulz mostly. I mean, even I noticed the amount of ass counts in the game, though it’ll be fun to see the final number. He probably doesn’t remember the technological limitations present back in the ps2 days, and this was an early game too. Plotwise, did he just say Tidus time traveled at the beginning of part 3? That in itself should speak volumes. And his rant on how Tidus isn’t the protagonist is laughable. Not that I’m saying Yuna isn’t important, but for the love of god, can’t there be more than 1 protagonist? You can’t even compare Tidus to Vaan. He also seems to hate the breaks in plot, which means he should love FFXIII, which carries the plot on and on for the first half of the game, without any form of disruption. Yet we know how many people criticized that game, for exactly that point too. Mostly though, he lacks the ability to immerse himself in games. He can’t even see where the Al Bhed were coming from during that Home scene. He tends to take what he perceives as negatives, and accentuate them. But hey, it’s all for the attention of the internet. Do you think people would know of him if he was neutral and gave games evenly balanced reviews? He’d just be another youtube reviewer. It’s a tactic to garner popularity.

But give him some credit, he can be funny. I saw the ffviii review and laughed along too. And let’s face it, when he pointed out WAkka’s comment after leveling Home, it was just so funny. His comment about the waterpolo park was hilarious too. Don’t watch it if it annoys you, but I still find it fun. I mean, it’s also fun seeing him try so hard to criticize the game too.

I wish he would do a review of Drakengaard though. That would probably be a wicked review.

-an intelligent poster on GameFAQs(i know paradox)

consider this before saying stupid shit, posters

I really hate pointing this out, but it’s a detail I only *barely* remembered. Apparently, Yuna and Rikku are cousins. Rikku attacking them and kidnapping Yuna was (I think) about trying to stop *Yuna’s* pilgrimage, not all of the others. It’s still selfish and kinda ridiculous when you consider that she tried killing Yuna’s friends to do so, but still. At the same time, I didn’t remember this detail until my brother pointed it out to me, so it was probably only glossed over.

I love all the FF games. Even so though I thought good points where made and pretty funny. I got good giggles out of this and I’m looking forward to seeing if 4 ever comes. Thanks.

When will there be part 4?

<– DORK

I lol'd.

this review was great : ) Can’t wait for part 4

….Fuck it, I love this game. It’s better than the overrated shit stain that was 7 at least. Nothing will beat FF4 though, personally. And the revelation scene…I dunno, it really moved me. The voice of Tidus was spot on and while t was whiny you still felt the emotion. Never once did it feel like it was phoned in…now Yuna’s voice actress…that’s another story lol. Oh, and the laughing scene was stupid but classic. I mean, come on, if Cloud, the whinest douche of them all can get away with CROSSDRESSING than i’m sure we can all go beyond Tidus’ infamous laugh scene………right?

……………Eh, it was pretty bad. Good review though Noah, I always do like how you do express your opinions and at least make light of everything. You never take yourself to seriously, THANK GOD.

….Fuck it, I love this game. It’s better than the overrated shit stain that was 7 at least. Nothing will beat FF4 though, personally. And the revelation scene…I dunno, it really moved me. The voice of Tidus was spot on and while t was whiny you still felt the emotion. Never once did it feel like it was phoned in…now Yuna’s voice actress…that’s another story lol. Oh, and the laughing scene was stupid but classic. I mean, come on, if Cloud, the whinest douche of them all can get away with CROSSDRESSING than i’m sure we can all go beyond Tidus’ infamous laugh scene………right?

……………Eh, it was pretty bad. Good review though Noah, I always do like how you do express your opinions and at least make light of everything. You never take yourself to seriously, THANK GOD.

….Fuck it, I love this game. It’s better than the overrated shit stain that was 7 at least. Nothing will beat FF4 though, personally. And the revelation scene…I dunno, it really moved me. The voice of Tidus was spot on and while t was whiny you still felt the emotion. Never once did it feel like it was phoned in…now Yuna’s voice actress…that’s another story lol. Oh, and the laughing scene was stupid but classic. I mean, come on, if Cloud, the whinest douche of them all can get away with CROSSDRESSING than i’m sure we can all go beyond Tidus’ infamous laugh scene………right?

……………Eh, it was pretty bad. Good review though Noah, I always do like how you do express your opinions and at least make light of everything. You never take yourself to seriously, THANK GOD.

Holy shit, that was an awesome ending. Black Lanterns in Heironymus Bosch’s Hell while the Emperor’s theme plays — FFX should have been that cool.
You probably hear this quite a bit, but the amount of creative effort you put into these videos, and to put it out there for all of us to watch free of charge — well. Thank you.

Holy shit, Spoony has a Videodrome poster!

…Why?

This review has its good points, I mean.. how else to highlight how annoying Tidus is by having an equally annoying reviewer! I understand now..
But seriously, there are good ideas here until you start talking about the Timing from Al Bhed desert onwards. Just because the events are narrated second by second that’s no reason to assume they happened like that. The attack on ‘Home’ could have taken several days, it could have been hours and hours until the characters woke up in the desert, they’d been exposed to toxins after all. People make this mistake about timing all the time

Praise be to Cyric I didn’t ever play this game. Ed Greenwood leaves better fantasy material in tightly coiled piles in his toilet.

man teh ass count is high as hell

Thanks, I’ve been saying that about Yuna being the real protagonist for years. I always wondered if they just didn’t have the balls to commit to a female lead character, so after the writers came up with the basic plot the higher-ups had them shoe-horn Tidus in.
Also, didn’t Sin kill Yuna’s dad or something? So she even has better daddy issues to bring to the table.
Plus, watching Auron just shove Tidus out of the way after about seven minutes in to this review was fun.
It’s too bad you couldn’t stand the character designs in Nine (though I can see why they’d bother you), it was a generally good game, even if it did have a few weird plot holes.

does anyone know what happend to the parts 4 – 9 ?

in a way tidus does have a puropose. his influence is what indirectly persuades yuna to try another way besides the final summoning, which in turn breaks the cycle of sin. he’s largely the indirect spiritual guide who creates another way (like tony in dr parnassus, only tidus is simply annoying at worst while tony is….well, a monster who harvests childrens organs for profit).
at one point he asks why the machina are bad, and yuna admits that now that he asked she really doesn’t know. He’s also the one who gets her to open up and enjoy life, which also helps to get her to find a new way.

Even wakka has some depth (issues over his dead bro (it’s implied that the reason he bonded with tidus so quickly was because tidus seemed a good substitute for his dead brother chappu), trying to overcome his racism).

When you said Seymour I was thinking about Seymour Krelbourn from Little Shop of Horrors

Another thing:  The part where they are under the ice…they actually landed on Sin.  At one point when you talk to Wakka or Lulu (can’t remember which) s/he says that s/he feels the ground shaking.  That’s cause they’re on Sin.  

So sin lets off his toxin and they all pass out.  Sin then rides to Sanubia Desert or wherever and drops them off.

16:50

FOR THE FIGHTERS!!!!!!!!

Was that music from KotOR II when Black Lantern Spoony appeared?

whats up with this video?? it doesnt show up at all. all i get is a grey box with controls.

wheres those newreporst from…htat chick makes me horyh

Really?! You start the review with a Spanish (argentinean by the matter) relate of a blitzball match?! AWESOME!!

…the vuvuzelas aren’t that awesome by the way

Yuna gets kidnapped more often than Princess Peach!

still better than twilight

Tidus: By the way what is your last name Seymour?
Seymour: It is Seymour Butts.
Tidus: Seymour….Butts?
Seymour: Is that a problem?
Tidus: Not really. By the way do you any friends named Jack Hoff, Dick Hertz, Stu Pididiot, Ivan Tokissyou & Lee Keypepe.
Seymour: Yes.
Tidus: That’s fine…wait, what?

I think the unsent eventually become the monsters which inhabit the world. Only a few maintain thier original form and personality.

“Oh spoony you ignorant slut!” Dr. Insano! In front of your son?! Shame on you!
Oh and this part of the review was slow at times but it’s still enjoyable. Black lantern spoony rocks my socks. Seriously, his precence and such is so cool he’s from the ice age.

If you use rikkus steal on seymours henchmen they can not long use auto potion

FFX: a puzzle of flesh

Actually In Final Fantasy XII hey originally wanted Basch as the main Character and they added Vann at the last minute but the fans just happened to Love the character and personally Final Fantasy XII is one of my favorite behind IV on wiiware

And yet as dorky as Seymore’s wedding hat is it’s still downright sensible compared to his regular hairstyle.

“Praise be to hubbard, thats what I would’ve said if I was a complete ass clown.”
I see what you did there Spoondog. Well played. *nods*
(For you dumbasses out there L. Ron Hubbard is the creator of a religion called scientology that is fucking retarded. I dont throw that word around either. I have an autistic brother, but if you believe in scientology, YOU ARE AN ASSCLOWN!!!!

of course there

Glad I’m not the only one who thought of the Grind Boots.