Yuna's dance (the sending), is one of the most powerful scenes I've seen in a video game. I was blown away 20 years ago, and today still, it's an unbelievably well made scene. Thanks again for sharing this playthrough, and ignite those memories 🙏🏻
You left last episode right before the famous sending scene! I was eagerly awaiting to see your reaction to it. Such a famous scene! Gives me goosebumps.
I think, in all of FF, that the Kilika Sending is the most beautiful scene in an artistic sense. Every single shot is composed really nicely, the music & sound design is gorgeous, the colors and lighting are fabulous…. The only bit that’s really showing its age is the hair physics as Yuna swings around.
They tried to make Aerith do a similar dance in Rebirth but it still paled in comparison to the real thing. It's the one scene they better not screw up in FFX remake. 😁
Yuna standing up to Dona was when I fell in love with her. The writing is so well done. She makes her strong personal point and doesn't belittle. And then after Dona leaves, thst little detail of Yuna shaking it off. She's fighting on so many fronts even though she's so scared. Her strength and courage shine through with a kind gentleness.
People use the laughing scene as a way to discredit the voice acting which is ridiculous as the scene is "bad" on purpose and even worse in the Japanese version. But I agree, despite a few rough patches here and there, the voice acting is really good overall, especially for the time it came out
No the laughing scene is bad and its hard to watch without having second hand embarrasment lol. You can understand it and still not like it, its not just the context.
It's pretty bad at places. Wakka is the only one I feel that is consistently quite good. I don't think Tidus's VA is bad per say, but I don't like how he does it. It's mostly due to bad direction, I think. Yuna is the worst of the main characters. I don't know if its the VA or the direction, but she's so flat at times it gets annoying.
I LOVE your take on Tidys being relatable and able to reflect on his thoughts and emotions. That’s definitely what they were going for when writing him, and it’s such a fresh take for a protagonist of any story to be able to work through those things and cycle through different perspectives. It’s really smart writing and it’s so cool to see someone acknowledge that. I love this entire cast of characters, truly, and that’s hard to accomplish from a writers standpoint.
The kid who was running around saying he "wants to be a blitzball" when he grows up. Someone actually made a mod that textures every blitzball in the game with the kid's head. xD In that mod, the kid achieved his dream lol.
One of the more beautiful playthroughs, your mannerisms and reflective nature on things is amazing, you show super respect to the beautiful side of the game not sure how you do it but amazing quality and showing how a proper playthrough is done, well done, gorgeous personality
I don't know if you figured this out yet, but you don't need to constantly equip you weapons and armor in battle. That's what the Equip menu is for. Doing so in battle is more so you can quickly switch to something more appropriate for the enemy you're fighting. In other games in the series, Assess/Sensor is also called Scan and Libra. Waterstrike is not for attacking underwater. The abilities Waterstrike, Firestrike, Icestrike, and Lightningstrike, add those particular elements to the attacks of the weapons they're attached to. Aside from Lock spheres in the early game, don't be stingy with your spheres. Make use of the Sphere Grid often to boost your party. Certain fiends are more likely to drop certain types of spheres so if you're running low on one type just farm them from a different enemy. Don't be afraid to take your time and grind a bit if you feel the need, especially since spheres are placed pretty generously throughout the game. Glad to see you experiencing this (and the PS2) for the first time and I'm impressed by your insight on the story and characters. While the sequel is less popular and vastly different tonally, I absolutely adore it, seeing it as a perfect complement to this game's story. I really hope to see you play it eventually, too!
i completely agree with you on your last comment but as for the first parts.....i think she isn't looking for advice and to be fare not looking up or reading anything about this game is probably the best way to play it! i wish i could wipe my memories about playing this game so i could experience it again (i know it is difficult because i keep giving advice out loud lol)
@@gundhamtanaka8202 actually it really is. Every action is assigned a numerical value on a scale of 0-5. Turns are calculated using a players Agility which is given a number as well. You trait your turn every X number There's really a lot more that goes into it that I really don't care to type out, but that's all just the beginning. It looks simple but there's a lot, just like Yojimbo's actions are a massive calculation and just rng
I just discovered your channel, thanks to batman arkham knight, and now you are playing one of my favorite games of all time. I really appreciate how careful you are playing your games, exploring, searching and studying everything. Thank you for this. RUclips should have more people like you. Keep going
It still amazes me how beautiful this game is. Even after 20 plus years the cutscenes are so beautifully done they still hold up today even on the PS2 version. After playing the newest titles FF7 Remake, Rebirth and 16 and seeing how amazing those graphics are and then playing the OG FFX you can't even fathom the graphic jump from PS1 era titles 7,8, and 9 to FFX.
The sending scene is one of the most beautiful things I've seen in any game ever (and now that you've seen this and Rebirth, you can see some of the influences between it and Aerith's scene in the Temple :))
Love following your play through so far, Maggie. I really like you thinking out loud and seeing your genuine initial reaction to everything. There are a lot of important missable content in this game. but that's almost unavoidable in a blind first play through. I'm glad you seem to be really enjoying it and aren't put off by the turn-base combat.
Please activate all spheres as you pass them by! Wakka may not get much use out of "magic up" in his specialization, but some abilities may depend on that stat. Or you can eventually have him go through the magic area of the sphere grid and these will be invaluable. So please don't skip on any of them, because going back to get them later is much more costly!
23 years old! Development cost $32,000,000. Team was 100 people and took them 2 years starting in 1999. Eventually would go on to sell over 22,000,000 copies which is the highest-grossing ever for a FF game. This was a huge deal back then and made Square Enix a metric f*ck ton of money.
I'm splitting hairs here, but the company was Square, going by SquareSoft back when FFX came out. They joined with Enix back in 2003, so right after FFX-2 was released. Enix on the other hand had a similar game franchise called Dragon Quest that still holds true to its roots with the turn based combat. I just feel bad every time I see SquareEnix instead of SquareSoft in my FFX 😔
Thanks for the correction, I forgot about the merger. I bet FFX is what put Squaresoft on Enix's radar. As a kid, I was confused on why the FFX disc case said Squaresoft and FF12's said Square Enix. Another cool fact is that Enix originally started out as a tabloid publisher, posting real estate listings before they got into games. "Enix" is a combination of ENIAC and Phoenix.
@@TheWorldsOkayestUSMarine Where is that 22M number coming from? Is that including the 2014 Remaster and FFX-2 because the original PS2 version of FFX only sold 8.5M copies and was second behind FF7 9.8M copies on PS1.
For the Jecht Shot challenge, after the tutorial with "prompts" in the real thing, the prompts are replaced by the intrucive thoughts and comments from Jecht, those are the ones you're suposed to react to and make dissapear in order to learn the Jecht Shot. It's worth getting as it's super good in blitzball. Anyway, loving your playthrough so far, you notice a lot of things and have very thoughtful commentary and that's a joy to watch!
It was a huge departure for me, who played as Cloud, Squall and then jumped to this one. I was not prepared! I love Tidus now, but back then it felt like a drastic change 😅
Yeah, and many people hated that about him and treated Tidus as a whiny guy. I mean, he was thrown into this place to almost completely different from his own. Yeah, I would probably behave as he does.
Uploaded 2 minutes ago!? I'm in, and pumped you're playing this. This is easily a top 3 game for me and have enjoyed your FF7 playthroughs. I'm glad you're enjoying this so far!
LOL you did exactly what I did the first time I played ffx. I didn't press anything during the Jecht Shot challenge and was confused where the prompts were. The memory blurbs of Jechts voice were the prompts, you were supposed to hit the d-pad and circle towards whichever part of the screen they popped up on.
It literally says when a MEMORY appears on the screen. Idk how people always miss that. I mean its not a big deal it's just a flavor thing really but dang a lot of people seem to have poor reading comprehension lol.
@burnttoastburt1467 it's easy in hindsight but I remember also failing back in 2007. The player really wants to succeed, so becasue of those stakes you focus too hard on doing Exactly what the tutorial shows you. Then you end up doing nothing since you don't want to end up pressing anything that might loose you points instead either 🤷♀️. Reading comprehension is not enough with conflicting visual cues.
Your aeon was recovering from it's overdrive, which is why the Ochu was able to regain so much of it's health. The second time round you woke it with a physical attack before it's next turn, so it didn't recover any health.
The Jecht shot prompts are related to where the text comes up on screen. You have to press the directional buttons in sequence with where the text appears + O.
Yeah, I enjoy about 90% of her content but I can't stand when creators focus too much on narrating/reacting and not actually reflecting on WHAT they are reading. It's not just her though, tons of streamers read through tutorials and then do exactly the opposite with some awkward "why did that happen" style reactions... just read.
@@Dylandesuu And, I mean, it's the only chance to learn the Jekkt shot. If it were me, I would have reloaded and tried again. The shot is extremely helpful. @Kastaclysm
@@FinalFantasy1087 You can ride the boat again and learn it later game after you get the airship but I mean at that point you’re so late game it doesn’t matter.
That one scene with Yuna where she verbally combats Dona is just one shining example of why I love Yuna's character. Her speech shows strength and kindness both. Yuna has zero hate in her heart even those who attacks her friends but she always has a strong sense of always doing the right thing. So all she had to do was to speak the truth to completely shut down Dona. And she shows that she doesn't need to be disrespectful in order to destroy someone verbally. There are many moments like this in this game where Yuna just shines. So if you are about to see Yuna give a speech, you know that its going to be a good one. And I think Auron's name is pronounced Ore-en. At least I think that's how Tidus pronounces ore - en.
Really happy that you enjoy the battle system so much it’s my favorite of the series the fact that everything has a rank of speed that affects the atb makes it really replayable
I wonder when she will realize that she doesn't have to keep re-equipping things in battle. However, she has realized that equipping is a fast action, which is something I never figured out when I played this as a kid.
I would go back and redo the Jecht Shot Challenge, you're supposed to to press the buttons where the text from Jecht pops up on screen. You'll be rewarded with the Jecht shot that will help you out in Blitzball
Have you noticed how some fights, not all your characters gain xp, and others they do? That's because each character won't get xp from a fight unless they do something during it. Just a piece of mechanics not everyone might know. :D Enjoying the playthrough!
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet or not, but the "Extract" abilities just force the enemy to drop the associated sphere for your sphere grid. So "Extract Ability" makes them drop Ability Spheres, "Extract Power" drops Power Spheres, etc. This is useful later, because it actually changes whatever the enemy was going to drop into those spheres. There are some enemies in the late game that drop something like 50 potions or whatever, so using the extract ability turns those 50 potions into 50 spheres for your grid.
I think you’re figuring the sphere grid out, but one clarification is that Kimahri doesn’t have a “default path” in the same way the other characters do. Similarly to how his character learns abilities from monster, on the sphere grid you also send him down any other characters path depending on how you want him to develop.
For learning the jecht shot for the dream part, the prompts where the white mist on the top left. Once you perform them, then the next ones appear at the other part of the screen.
It's fan service adding more credence to the fan theory that the universes are linked. Like, because there are so many people that want to believe FF7 and FFX are linked somehow, I think the devs did this as a sort of wink to it.
@@vulcanh254 I don’t really love that theory - I mean, it’s fun, but I just don’t jive with it in a worldbuild-y way - but all the same, anytime a monster in Rebirth was referred to as a ‘fiend’, my brain did a backflip. 😂
the 'extract' skills change the loot item to the related sphere- if the feind would of drop '2x Potion' and you hit it with 'Extract Power' it will then drop "2x Power Sphere' - for reducing the fiends stats its a defrent skill
It's probably worth re-doing the Jecht shot segment, it's a useful technique that will come in handy later. The prompt is the text itself as it appears onscreen
I agree with this, if you haven't gotten too far already, I would reload the game and go for the Jecht shot again. The prompts are the text. The jecht shot WILL save you so much hassle later on.
Jecht shot is apparently the worst tutorial ever because almost everyone i see play doesn't understand and messes it up the first time. People wait on actual button prompts to appear and of course they never do.
For the Jecht Shot, you were supposed to input directions based on the text on screen. Jecht was talking in your memory, his sentences appeared on top and top right so you had to do up+O and up+right+O. (also, try to exhaust people's dialogues until they repeat themselves, you've been missing some cool scenes by not doing it. On the boat, when Wakka and Lulu were talking, if you continued to go on the upper deck to talk to them, there was other scenes to watch)
You said at the beginning of your playthrough that you wanted to do as much of the game as possible (side quests/content, minigames, etc.) so just be aware with the Final Fantasy's of this generation and earlier that there is a lot of missable content as you progress that they don't hold your hand and point you towards. Make sure you talk to people more than once and try to interact with objects in the world a bit more (you've missed quite a few Al Bhed primers that I assume you think are just part of the background but they're books on the floor or on a table). I'm just giving you a heads-up on this kind of stuff because you specifically said you cared about it. :3 Great episode, as always!
Most notable "missables" are Energy Blast, Sun Crest and the Destruction Sphere rewards in Besaid and a future temple. The only actually missable items that matter are a couple of Al Bhed primers in a future location. Also, damn my phone screen for sending this early, resulting in an edit 😂
@@kikiyatman Actually, in the version she is playing, unless she dedicates around 30+ hours of grinding and farming, she basically has already missed the destruction sphere in Besaid as well as the Energy Blast and also will miss an overdrive for a character she still doesn't have. She also has already missed the Jecht Shot for something that is comming. She still can get it latter I think, but only if she put like 30+ hours of minigaming. From previous strems, she doesn't really do everything, but do most of it.
@@winshifter out of all you said only the Destruction Sphere is actually missed, everything else can be found by simply walking back. This is possible the moment the party takes an intentional detour (damn it's difficult talking about these without spoiling anything). And even with the Destruction Sphere there's the possibility of Zanmato if grinding doesn't sound enjoyable. And having just finished the Sphere Grid for everyone yesterday, I'd definitely understand not wanting to do it
@@kikiyatman I mean, maybe I might have implied something else, but, it is really not missable anything of it, but given that the event that would prevent it is right at the gate of Besaid, it would be difficult. Assuming she gets Zanmatto, on a regular, not rng manipulation gameplay, odds are just half of winning the lottery. There are ways to make Zanmatto happen more often, but requires that you pay a lot early on and that requires grinding. I don't remember, but unless she goes back to Besaid after all of Luca events, for all intents and purposes, Energy Ray and Destruction Sphere are already missed items.
Perfect example to why I love that Maggie is playing this game❤ she analyzes everything, of course, from her own POV, but it provokes thoughts for us that may feel like we understand things to a T For example, the way she talked about the way the characters are talking to each other bringing up ideas and making assumptions ❤❤❤ I think it's easy to overlook how that kind of thing makes the writing of a game so much more memorable, not to mention internal dialogue! That's something I feel like is missing from a lot of English translations these days😤 but that's a subject for later
it is ancient for young ones, lol. I remember when I was 10 in 1989 : when I thought about 1969, I couldn't help thinking "that's dinosaur time". They barely had color on tv! So imagine what I thought about the 50s or earlier, when TV footage was 100% black and white 😂 Funny how that works and how time flies.
You've made me re-download this classic. I checked my save file and it said 2015 😮😂 When I was a teen this is what got me into story based games before that all I played was sports games.
Little background on the odd button mapping: When the figured on the Playstation button was designed, the intention was for Triangle to be the map(the triangle pointing north), Square to be for menus(shaped like a page), Circle for yes, and X for no. In the West there was a hard gravitation towards X being yes and Circle being no, for some reason, and for years games would have two different button mappings X and Circle depending on which region it was made for.
I read or saw a video about that O/X decision, if I remember correctly during US development/translation/whatever, they were focusing more on the button colors rather than the shape on them. So from JPN logic it was O = yes, X = no, while US it was red = no, blue = yes
32:37 This reminds me of a documentary i watched about England coming from behind to beat our Australian team in The Ashes, a regular cricket series between Australia and England. I'll admit I'm not too aware of what was going on at the time, but someone in the documentary said that this occurred in a year when there was a lot of friction going on, such as riots and such. And they said that winning that series brought a sense of hope for them, maybe even unity and calm (which is a term you'll find comes up in FFX). Knowing the talent our team had, and the player-selection chaos that occurred for England at the start of the series, this was quite an inspirational awe-inspiring victory too. I mean as an Australian cricket fan, I have a passionate hate for the England cricket team (like their fans have for us (see Lords 2023)) yet i was cheering for them as I watched that documentary. Wakka's point and your point about bringing hope and a time to forget troubles really resonated with me!
Addicted !! Don'T want to wait between each episode now ahah ! I was at two fingers to buy the final fantasy X/X2 remaster on the ps store... Didn't play this since 15 years on my ps2. Was my absolute best game at the time (and still my best rpg I ever played). The ultimate goal was to fill up the sphere grid for all characters and find all beasts (some are very very rare) and of course find all best equipment for each one. Well so many emotions so see back this game of my late childhood.
Loving this series, Ill probably watch it religiously. My advice for the sphere grid is to look for the nodes of the type of abilities they are already using: black magic nodes for Lulu, White Magic nodes for Yuna, Status Ailment Attacks for Wakka, Support skills like Slow and Haste for Tidus and so on. The paths are kinda straightforward.
One of my favorite details that I didn't notice as a kid but really loved realizing later was that each temple, or each fayth has it's own song variant to represent the soul that sacrificed themselves.
You are still in the silly habit of switching weapons and armor in battle. You dont need to do that. It doesnt affect the list of turns. It only grants you another turn if you need to switch a weapon or amor, but the number of turns you get to attack remains the same. So it is really pointless to do it unless your intention is to use a different weapon or armor.
She typically records multiple episodes ahead of time before releasing. She’s probably much further into the game or even done by the time she reads this
Maggie, you’re doing great for your first play through and figuring out the battle system! quick pointers if you want to use them. you don’t have to do the armor when you’re in the battle. If you equipped it in the menu system, you’re good to go. That’s just if you find an armor isn’t working or you need a resistance to something you can switch it mid battle. and also you can use the extract sphere abilities in battle to steal ability spheres or mana spheres etc and then you can use them in your sphere grid. Have fun!! ❤
Also, it’s kind of tedious, but if in each random battle you encounter, you switch out so all the players are used within that battle they’ll all level up😊
Equipment menu tip: when changing character's equipment, you can switch to the next character with R1 or L1, just like when you switch to the next character in the sphere grid, you don't need to back all the way out.
I love watching you figure out the battle system and how everything works. I have to say I died a little inside though when Ochu only needed one more hit to kill him and you swapped in Yuna to heal instead.
they really frontloaded this game with the greatest cutscenes of the era. Zanarkand attack, Sending, Next big thing, Big thing after that, all absolute masterpieces.
I also love seeing the recognition of Aeons and Summons in other FF games as you are playing them and which role they have on it. That's probably one of the coolest things about starting with XVI, as they have such a strong presence there. Also: I totally did the same with the Jecht shoot, whoopsies
Do you see the window when you target an enemy at 1:25:09? Do you see the colors red blue yellow and white? The ones at the x1.5 are the enemy’s weakness. Blue is water and white is ice. Use it more for landing overkills.
Avoid using the extract skills. The “Extract power/abilty/speed” skills are used to overwrite the items you get from a fight with power/ability/agility spheres for the sphere grid. That means if you use this during boss fights, you’re losing out on the normal drops you would get from a boss and just getting spheres for the sphere grid. Those skills only exist if you are low on spheres and need to farm them from fights. Try to avoid using them in boss fights because you lose out on good loot. It would be a good idea to look through what skills and abilities do in the menus. It also tells you what they do at the top of the screen while you hover over it during battles. As far as the sphere grid goes, there’s no reason not to move if you have SP points to spend. There’s also no reason to not use spheres to unlock nodes you come across unless they are “key spheres” which are limited near the beginning of the game. Since you chose “Expert Sphere Grid” which allows for more freedom in leveling, the set character paths are a little more unclear. As far as weapons and armor go in combat, you’ve just been selecting shat they already have equipped. That option in combat is more for switching when your weapon or armor is ineffective against what you’re fighting. You can see what skills and abilities do by hovering over them. Unlike other characters, Tidus learns new Overdrives after using it a certain amount of times, so use it often to unlock more.
you’re my favourite final fantasy gamer in youtube ever, thank you so much for sharing your gaming experience with us, i can’t wait to see tidus decypher the al bhed language or play blitzball later
One tip I'd give is to make sure to keep talking to your main characters until their lines run out. It gives you extra lore and characterization. In FFX the main characters usually have 2 lines of dialogue up to 3 sometimes. Also, I've noticed at the end you avoided talking to Yuna 2:24:54 and accidentally triggered a cutscene. In general, it's best to talk to your party members first before moving around in case you trigger a cutscene. 17:28 Haha, didn't you restart the sphere grid tutorial in the first video too? Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice... 45:07 Hearing random encounters being described as mini games is a first one for me. Fascinating. 51:17 You always start the battle with the last 3 you fought with. If you want a different set-up switch a character. 58:40 A tip but in the settings you can adjust it so that it shortens the Aeons' summon animations (excl. the first time). 1:03:38 That is the fun part about turn-based combat, in FFX especially. Figuring out what is the most optimal strategy. 1:05:35 While a tough cookie, Ochu wasn't as tough as I remembered. Keep in mind it's game over if you die, no auto-saves. So you would have to re-do all your grinding / leveling up when you do die. 1:56:28 Luna is a different FF character! 2:13:03 The way you keep calling the Sphere Grid circles webs is funny. 2:15:35 A tip but you can use L1/R1(?) when you're in the Equip menu and other character menus to switch character.
I thought it was interesting when you brought up how Titus is in tune with his emotions and how the gamer is able to hear what he’s thinking compared to other final fantasy main characters. I guess as a kid I never realized that about him, but now it makes me think how unique this game is with story telling from the protagonist point of view! Great analysis!
Hey kasta all the destruction spheres inside the temples give you a huge reward if you get them. I recommend getting them all but you can go back to get then later in the game. Although it's much more difficult. Also the jecht shot you could learn is amazing. If you want to roll back a little I would try again to get it
@just-gaming213 there is and I know you can only visit that temple once. There's also a missable primer in there also. Then besaid and another temple are much harder to go back to and get those spheres. Like you said though, spoilers lol
OMG your playing final fantasy X?!! how did I not know this until now!!! This is the perfect series for me to watch while I wait for FF7 part 3 to come out haha
The jecht shot challenge is possible to do, the prompts just aren't as obvious as you were expecting, its all about where the memories are written on the screen not just showing you what buttons to press Also as a point the abilities you have unlocked extract power and extract ability etc, allow you to gain extra spheres of that type for the sphere grid, so of you're running short you can use those abilities to gain more of the ones you need
Some tips: 1. No need to use potions/hi-potions to heal up if u wanna save them as long as Yuna is in your party with enough MP to use Cure to heal party members instead. 2. There's no reason to save S. levels unless you don't have the right sphere to activate a node. There are other reasons but they don't apply for where you are in the game yet. 3. If you don't use at least one action by someone in battle, they don't gain S. levels so u may want to get in the habit of using everyone at least once in battle. 4. When using Valefor in battle, keep using Sonic Wings to delay the enemy attack if they're not immune to it. You'll thank me later. 5. For your question at 1:29:10 - you'll eventually be able to insert abilities into empty slots.
I remember when Aerith did a very similar dance in FF7R. She didn't do it in OG FF7, so when I saw Aerith dance this is the exact scene I thought of. On another note, at 28:40, I got a commercial break, and saw an ad for The Wild Robot, and as soon as it comes back in Maggie just sighs, and says "Children." It was the perfect out of context clip. I literally laughed out loud.
The Jecht Shot totally tripped me up my first time, too! Was fully expecting the usual blue FFX text box to appear. Instead, it turns out you're meant to input on the subtitles (memories) of Jecht. Slightly confusing! Also, I'll never get used to the Blitzball Announcer's voice! That's 100% Tom Kenny, using his "the city.. of townsville!" voice from Powerpuff Girls.
A bit of deep iceberg lore, Blue Magic: The characters in the FFX follow interpretations of classes or 'jobs' in older FFs you've probably already figured out. Tidus is Warrior, Yuna is White Mage and Lulu is a Black Mage, Wakka is an "Archer" or ranger of sorts, etc. But Final Fantasy also has a unique 'job' that's shown up in some titles, and that's a "Blue Mage". Blue mages learn the magic of their enemies as their core skill that often take on monstrous traits like Fire breathing like a dragon instead of just casting Fire. You probably got a taste of this with the Enemy Skill Materia in FF7R, but 7 doesn't really have as much of the FF "job system" that other games did. Kimahri is in this game a Blue Mage as you can now tell from his Overdrive. Two fun facts here are that it's a bit of a inside joke that Kimahri has blue fur to match his job lol haha, and also his starting space on the Sphere Grid represents him being able to learn from his friends just as much from the Fiends of Spira. His broken horn has another fun story about it's history with Summoners but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. "And that, as they say, is that" 😉
Always fun watching people enjoy their first playthrough of FFX. 🙌 Definitely my favourite game of all time and crazy to think how old it has become now. Can't wait for the next part!
Already insanely addicted to this series, hope you're enjoying your early voyage in to FFX Got a good little tip for you, will make grinding better in the long run. Try and use everybody at least once during battle, characters only need to do one thing and they'll get all the ap. If you're not using, say Wakka in a battle, have him come in for a move and just do it (i usually would do defend (triangle on ps2) because it's super quick.
You don't need to use items to heal in-between fights, you could use Yuna's healing abilities through the ability menu. Also, L1 and R1 can switch between characters in the equip menu.
those thoughts about not hearing clouds emotions or internal thoughts (as opposed to tidus) are important to hold on to and come back to after the 3rd game btw
Don't ever feel bad about the names! Everyone argued about certain names when we could only read them, and since this is VA, you will hear them before long (except Tidus, haha). Funny enough, I didn't learn how to pronouce "Ifrit" until FF16. Just have fun!!! This game is so special, and I just hope you enjoy it. This was the first story to ever bring me to tears, and I will always hold it in high esteem for that reason.
21:30 I'm pretty sure the regular version has the other paths blocked with Lv1 spheres so it forced you to take a specific route at the beginning (until you get can unlock it). They must have removed them in the international version. I noticed it when I played the HD version.
Is a real bad idea not to activate any nodes next to you on your path.... Like the flee ability for example, even if you run out of spheres and can't activate it at the moment, is better to wait in that spot until you u get more spheres, than leaving unactivated nodes
Ive binged the first 3 episodes and I'm addicted. It's bringing back so many memories 😭 although missing the first destruction sphere and then missing the jecht shot has me sent 😂 id personally start a whole new game 🤣 youre doing great though. Gonna spend the rest of my day catching up 🔥
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the sending scene still looks beaultiful 20+ years later.
Its amazing it looks this good without the HD graphics.
Yuna's dance (the sending), is one of the most powerful scenes I've seen in a video game.
I was blown away 20 years ago, and today still, it's an unbelievably well made scene.
Thanks again for sharing this playthrough, and ignite those memories 🙏🏻
You left last episode right before the famous sending scene! I was eagerly awaiting to see your reaction to it. Such a famous scene! Gives me goosebumps.
I think, in all of FF, that the Kilika Sending is the most beautiful scene in an artistic sense. Every single shot is composed really nicely, the music & sound design is gorgeous, the colors and lighting are fabulous…. The only bit that’s really showing its age is the hair physics as Yuna swings around.
They tried to make Aerith do a similar dance in Rebirth but it still paled in comparison to the real thing.
It's the one scene they better not screw up in FFX remake. 😁
Yuna standing up to Dona was when I fell in love with her. The writing is so well done. She makes her strong personal point and doesn't belittle. And then after Dona leaves, thst little detail of Yuna shaking it off. She's fighting on so many fronts even though she's so scared. Her strength and courage shine through with a kind gentleness.
Its insane how good the dub for this was at the time. People meme on it but the cast took the whole thing seriously and imo delivered killer results.
People use the laughing scene as a way to discredit the voice acting which is ridiculous as the scene is "bad" on purpose and even worse in the Japanese version. But I agree, despite a few rough patches here and there, the voice acting is really good overall, especially for the time it came out
The VAs are a bit flat at times especially compared to the really dynamic animations but overall it's an amazing first effort.
Yea, they just take this laughing scene out of context, which also shows me they never player the game.
No the laughing scene is bad and its hard to watch without having second hand embarrasment lol. You can understand it and still not like it, its not just the context.
It's pretty bad at places. Wakka is the only one I feel that is consistently quite good. I don't think Tidus's VA is bad per say, but I don't like how he does it. It's mostly due to bad direction, I think. Yuna is the worst of the main characters. I don't know if its the VA or the direction, but she's so flat at times it gets annoying.
I LOVE your take on Tidys being relatable and able to reflect on his thoughts and emotions. That’s definitely what they were going for when writing him, and it’s such a fresh take for a protagonist of any story to be able to work through those things and cycle through different perspectives.
It’s really smart writing and it’s so cool to see someone acknowledge that. I love this entire cast of characters, truly, and that’s hard to accomplish from a writers standpoint.
Tidus* jeez lol
The kid who was running around saying he "wants to be a blitzball" when he grows up. Someone actually made a mod that textures every blitzball in the game with the kid's head. xD
In that mod, the kid achieved his dream lol.
LMAO!
lol pretty sure I seen dangs08 make a short of it. Not sure who the original creator is. Truly golden regardless
One of the more beautiful playthroughs, your mannerisms and reflective nature on things is amazing, you show super respect to the beautiful side of the game not sure how you do it but amazing quality and showing how a proper playthrough is done, well done, gorgeous personality
so addicted to this, thx for sharing your videos so consistently! your dedication never goes unnoticed.
I don't know if you figured this out yet, but you don't need to constantly equip you weapons and armor in battle. That's what the Equip menu is for. Doing so in battle is more so you can quickly switch to something more appropriate for the enemy you're fighting.
In other games in the series, Assess/Sensor is also called Scan and Libra.
Waterstrike is not for attacking underwater. The abilities Waterstrike, Firestrike, Icestrike, and Lightningstrike, add those particular elements to the attacks of the weapons they're attached to.
Aside from Lock spheres in the early game, don't be stingy with your spheres. Make use of the Sphere Grid often to boost your party. Certain fiends are more likely to drop certain types of spheres so if you're running low on one type just farm them from a different enemy. Don't be afraid to take your time and grind a bit if you feel the need, especially since spheres are placed pretty generously throughout the game.
Glad to see you experiencing this (and the PS2) for the first time and I'm impressed by your insight on the story and characters. While the sequel is less popular and vastly different tonally, I absolutely adore it, seeing it as a perfect complement to this game's story. I really hope to see you play it eventually, too!
i completely agree with you on your last comment but as for the first parts.....i think she isn't looking for advice and to be fare not looking up or reading anything about this game is probably the best way to play it! i wish i could wipe my memories about playing this game so i could experience it again (i know it is difficult because i keep giving advice out loud lol)
@@princton23this isn't advice, it's a correction to something she falsely believes due to the complexity of the turn order system of ffx.
@@saw31489 "complexity." she's just an idiot
@@saw31489 it's common sense really. The system isn't even complex.
@@gundhamtanaka8202 actually it really is.
Every action is assigned a numerical value on a scale of 0-5. Turns are calculated using a players Agility which is given a number as well. You trait your turn every X number
There's really a lot more that goes into it that I really don't care to type out, but that's all just the beginning. It looks simple but there's a lot, just like Yojimbo's actions are a massive calculation and just rng
I just discovered your channel, thanks to batman arkham knight, and now you are playing one of my favorite games of all time. I really appreciate how careful you are playing your games, exploring, searching and studying everything. Thank you for this. RUclips should have more people like you. Keep going
It still amazes me how beautiful this game is. Even after 20 plus years the cutscenes are so beautifully done they still hold up today even on the PS2 version. After playing the newest titles FF7 Remake, Rebirth and 16 and seeing how amazing those graphics are and then playing the OG FFX you can't even fathom the graphic jump from PS1 era titles 7,8, and 9 to FFX.
Heck, even 7 to 8 was a large improvement.
The sending scene is one of the most beautiful things I've seen in any game ever (and now that you've seen this and Rebirth, you can see some of the influences between it and Aerith's scene in the Temple :))
It's in the top 5 iconic moments in FF for sure!
Love following your play through so far, Maggie. I really like you thinking out loud and seeing your genuine initial reaction to everything. There are a lot of important missable content in this game. but that's almost unavoidable in a blind first play through. I'm glad you seem to be really enjoying it and aren't put off by the turn-base combat.
Please activate all spheres as you pass them by! Wakka may not get much use out of "magic up" in his specialization, but some abilities may depend on that stat. Or you can eventually have him go through the magic area of the sphere grid and these will be invaluable. So please don't skip on any of them, because going back to get them later is much more costly!
23 years old! Development cost $32,000,000. Team was 100 people and took them 2 years starting in 1999. Eventually would go on to sell over 22,000,000 copies which is the highest-grossing ever for a FF game.
This was a huge deal back then and made Square Enix a metric f*ck ton of money.
I'm splitting hairs here, but the company was Square, going by SquareSoft back when FFX came out. They joined with Enix back in 2003, so right after FFX-2 was released.
Enix on the other hand had a similar game franchise called Dragon Quest that still holds true to its roots with the turn based combat.
I just feel bad every time I see SquareEnix instead of SquareSoft in my FFX 😔
Ive boughten at least 4 copies
Thanks for the correction, I forgot about the merger. I bet FFX is what put Squaresoft on Enix's radar.
As a kid, I was confused on why the FFX disc case said Squaresoft and FF12's said Square Enix.
Another cool fact is that Enix originally started out as a tabloid publisher, posting real estate listings before they got into games. "Enix" is a combination of ENIAC and Phoenix.
i mean, it was one of the last squareSOFT games released before the merger.
@@TheWorldsOkayestUSMarine Where is that 22M number coming from? Is that including the 2014 Remaster and FFX-2 because the original PS2 version of FFX only sold 8.5M copies and was second behind FF7 9.8M copies on PS1.
For the Jecht Shot challenge, after the tutorial with "prompts" in the real thing, the prompts are replaced by the intrucive thoughts and comments from Jecht, those are the ones you're suposed to react to and make dissapear in order to learn the Jecht Shot. It's worth getting as it's super good in blitzball. Anyway, loving your playthrough so far, you notice a lot of things and have very thoughtful commentary and that's a joy to watch!
I like how Tidus is emotional and expresses his feelings . After the very stoic Cloud, that's a breath of fresh air. Great journey so far
It was a huge departure for me, who played as Cloud, Squall and then jumped to this one. I was not prepared! I love Tidus now, but back then it felt like a drastic change 😅
Cloud wishes he was stoic haha but I get what you mean
Cloud is not stoic bro but yeah he's definitely more reserved
No one here remember zidane?
Yeah, and many people hated that about him and treated Tidus as a whiny guy. I mean, he was thrown into this place to almost completely different from his own. Yeah, I would probably behave as he does.
I’m so happy she talked to the blitzball.
Lots of people miss the blitzball in training. But I love it❤😊
The boy has big dreams.
Gotta go back and get the Jecht shot. It's a difference maker if you're going to do any blitzball!
Yes retry the save file the jest shot is just overpowered
@@adognamedsally I laughed so hard when the boy said his biggest dream was to become a Biltzball🤣
The Sending will always give me chills. Such an amazing amount of detail
Uploaded 2 minutes ago!? I'm in, and pumped you're playing this. This is easily a top 3 game for me and have enjoyed your FF7 playthroughs.
I'm glad you're enjoying this so far!
On the boat to Luca you can go back up to Wakka and LuLu to hear more dialogue a few times.
LOL you did exactly what I did the first time I played ffx. I didn't press anything during the Jecht Shot challenge and was confused where the prompts were. The memory blurbs of Jechts voice were the prompts, you were supposed to hit the d-pad and circle towards whichever part of the screen they popped up on.
Came to comment the same thing 😂 people always mess this up
It literally says when a MEMORY appears on the screen. Idk how people always miss that. I mean its not a big deal it's just a flavor thing really but dang a lot of people seem to have poor reading comprehension lol.
@burnttoastburt1467 it's easy in hindsight but I remember also failing back in 2007. The player really wants to succeed, so becasue of those stakes you focus too hard on doing Exactly what the tutorial shows you. Then you end up doing nothing since you don't want to end up pressing anything that might loose you points instead either 🤷♀️. Reading comprehension is not enough with conflicting visual cues.
@not0228 Couldn't have said it better myself. 👏🏾
@@not0228 just sounds like an excuse for not understanding simple instructions.
Nice to see her pick up on the Sphere grid. She was making me anxious in earlier videos, especially with the Expert/International Sphere grid.
Your aeon was recovering from it's overdrive, which is why the Ochu was able to regain so much of it's health. The second time round you woke it with a physical attack before it's next turn, so it didn't recover any health.
Your Final Fantasy playthroughs are the best.
The Jecht shot prompts are related to where the text comes up on screen. You have to press the directional buttons in sequence with where the text appears + O.
Yeah, I enjoy about 90% of her content but I can't stand when creators focus too much on narrating/reacting and not actually reflecting on WHAT they are reading. It's not just her though, tons of streamers read through tutorials and then do exactly the opposite with some awkward "why did that happen" style reactions... just read.
@@TheCloudofWarto be fair the tutorial is kinda crap at explaining. Like the actual practice part just gives the prompts so sets the expectation.
The bummer is that's where you can learn the Jecht Shot and she messed up. It's super useful early game.
@@Dylandesuu And, I mean, it's the only chance to learn the Jekkt shot. If it were me, I would have reloaded and tried again. The shot is extremely helpful. @Kastaclysm
@@FinalFantasy1087 You can ride the boat again and learn it later game after you get the airship but I mean at that point you’re so late game it doesn’t matter.
That one scene with Yuna where she verbally combats Dona is just one shining example of why I love Yuna's character. Her speech shows strength and kindness both. Yuna has zero hate in her heart even those who attacks her friends but she always has a strong sense of always doing the right thing. So all she had to do was to speak the truth to completely shut down Dona. And she shows that she doesn't need to be disrespectful in order to destroy someone verbally. There are many moments like this in this game where Yuna just shines. So if you are about to see Yuna give a speech, you know that its going to be a good one.
And I think Auron's name is pronounced Ore-en. At least I think that's how Tidus pronounces ore - en.
Really happy that you enjoy the battle system so much it’s my favorite of the series the fact that everything has a rank of speed that affects the atb makes it really replayable
Until u run into the elemental flan. Those cookie cutter mfers could stay gone.
nice work on that ochu fight! its no joke, youre learning the turn order quite well and how sonic boom effected it
I wonder when she will realize that she doesn't have to keep re-equipping things in battle. However, she has realized that equipping is a fast action, which is something I never figured out when I played this as a kid.
I would go back and redo the Jecht Shot Challenge, you're supposed to to press the buttons where the text from Jecht pops up on screen. You'll be rewarded with the Jecht shot that will help you out in Blitzball
Have you noticed how some fights, not all your characters gain xp, and others they do? That's because each character won't get xp from a fight unless they do something during it. Just a piece of mechanics not everyone might know. :D Enjoying the playthrough!
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet or not, but the "Extract" abilities just force the enemy to drop the associated sphere for your sphere grid. So "Extract Ability" makes them drop Ability Spheres, "Extract Power" drops Power Spheres, etc. This is useful later, because it actually changes whatever the enemy was going to drop into those spheres. There are some enemies in the late game that drop something like 50 potions or whatever, so using the extract ability turns those 50 potions into 50 spheres for your grid.
Once Kimari learns an ability from an enemyy, he has it permantely.. He doesn't learn it everytime.
I think you’re figuring the sphere grid out, but one clarification is that Kimahri doesn’t have a “default path” in the same way the other characters do. Similarly to how his character learns abilities from monster, on the sphere grid you also send him down any other characters path depending on how you want him to develop.
@@YnEoS10 I learned some of Auron and lulus skills for Kimahri
what an intro with Yuna dancing! glad you are having fun with this playthrough
For learning the jecht shot for the dream part, the prompts where the white mist on the top left. Once you perform them, then the next ones appear at the other part of the screen.
I swear in FF7 Rebirth when Aerith dances at the Temple of The Ancients was to pay homage to Yuna dancing in Kilika.
100%
Same dance, same video composition, same concept with lifestream/farplane pyreflies/makoflies
I was so happy when I saw that.
Definitely
Yup. Rebirth had a lot of references to other FF games and KH in it.
It's fan service adding more credence to the fan theory that the universes are linked.
Like, because there are so many people that want to believe FF7 and FFX are linked somehow, I think the devs did this as a sort of wink to it.
@@vulcanh254 I don’t really love that theory - I mean, it’s fun, but I just don’t jive with it in a worldbuild-y way - but all the same, anytime a monster in Rebirth was referred to as a ‘fiend’, my brain did a backflip. 😂
You can also use Yuna’s Cure ability outside of battle to heal party members, it just costs MP
And she never did, not once :D
the 'extract' skills change the loot item to the related sphere- if the feind would of drop '2x Potion' and you hit it with 'Extract Power' it will then drop "2x Power Sphere' - for reducing the fiends stats its a defrent skill
It is a *PURE* joy to watch someone discover FFX, but also through the lens of someone who hasn't necessarily played the turn-based games. Love it.
It's probably worth re-doing the Jecht shot segment, it's a useful technique that will come in handy later. The prompt is the text itself as it appears onscreen
I think it's worth a reload too but blitzball is so hard anyway 😅
shes probably 3/4 of the way into the game already if she didnt finish it already
I agree with this, if you haven't gotten too far already, I would reload the game and go for the Jecht shot again. The prompts are the text. The jecht shot WILL save you so much hassle later on.
Jecht shot is apparently the worst tutorial ever because almost everyone i see play doesn't understand and messes it up the first time. People wait on actual button prompts to appear and of course they never do.
@@zackfair6791 agreed
12:40 that is some great insight. This game was absolutely visually groundbreaking when it released.
For the Jecht Shot, you were supposed to input directions based on the text on screen. Jecht was talking in your memory, his sentences appeared on top and top right so you had to do up+O and up+right+O.
(also, try to exhaust people's dialogues until they repeat themselves, you've been missing some cool scenes by not doing it. On the boat, when Wakka and Lulu were talking, if you continued to go on the upper deck to talk to them, there was other scenes to watch)
The Wakka and Lulu thing is easy to miss. Especially since it is a cutscene. Normally cutscenes are one and done.
She talked to the kid that wants to be a blitzball! XD
You said at the beginning of your playthrough that you wanted to do as much of the game as possible (side quests/content, minigames, etc.) so just be aware with the Final Fantasy's of this generation and earlier that there is a lot of missable content as you progress that they don't hold your hand and point you towards. Make sure you talk to people more than once and try to interact with objects in the world a bit more (you've missed quite a few Al Bhed primers that I assume you think are just part of the background but they're books on the floor or on a table). I'm just giving you a heads-up on this kind of stuff because you specifically said you cared about it. :3
Great episode, as always!
Most notable "missables" are Energy Blast, Sun Crest and the Destruction Sphere rewards in Besaid and a future temple. The only actually missable items that matter are a couple of Al Bhed primers in a future location.
Also, damn my phone screen for sending this early, resulting in an edit 😂
@kikiyatman yup saw that also
@@kikiyatman Actually, in the version she is playing, unless she dedicates around 30+ hours of grinding and farming, she basically has already missed the destruction sphere in Besaid as well as the Energy Blast and also will miss an overdrive for a character she still doesn't have. She also has already missed the Jecht Shot for something that is comming. She still can get it latter I think, but only if she put like 30+ hours of minigaming. From previous strems, she doesn't really do everything, but do most of it.
@@winshifter out of all you said only the Destruction Sphere is actually missed, everything else can be found by simply walking back. This is possible the moment the party takes an intentional detour (damn it's difficult talking about these without spoiling anything). And even with the Destruction Sphere there's the possibility of Zanmato if grinding doesn't sound enjoyable. And having just finished the Sphere Grid for everyone yesterday, I'd definitely understand not wanting to do it
@@kikiyatman I mean, maybe I might have implied something else, but, it is really not missable anything of it, but given that the event that would prevent it is right at the gate of Besaid, it would be difficult. Assuming she gets Zanmatto, on a regular, not rng manipulation gameplay, odds are just half of winning the lottery. There are ways to make Zanmatto happen more often, but requires that you pay a lot early on and that requires grinding. I don't remember, but unless she goes back to Besaid after all of Luca events, for all intents and purposes, Energy Ray and Destruction Sphere are already missed items.
Perfect example to why I love that Maggie is playing this game❤ she analyzes everything, of course, from her own POV, but it provokes thoughts for us that may feel like we understand things to a T
For example, the way she talked about the way the characters are talking to each other bringing up ideas and making assumptions ❤❤❤ I think it's easy to overlook how that kind of thing makes the writing of a game so much more memorable, not to mention internal dialogue! That's something I feel like is missing from a lot of English translations these days😤 but that's a subject for later
"Even in 2002" is my new favorite quote. Like that was such an ancient time.
it is ancient for young ones, lol. I remember when I was 10 in 1989 : when I thought about 1969, I couldn't help thinking "that's dinosaur time". They barely had color on tv! So imagine what I thought about the 50s or earlier, when TV footage was 100% black and white 😂 Funny how that works and how time flies.
Considering the leaps in bounds in games and tech, I think it’s a fair statement 😅
The first person in history to activate the sphere grid tutorial a second time by choice.
You've made me re-download this classic. I checked my save file and it said 2015 😮😂 When I was a teen this is what got me into story based games before that all I played was sports games.
Little background on the odd button mapping: When the figured on the Playstation button was designed, the intention was for Triangle to be the map(the triangle pointing north), Square to be for menus(shaped like a page), Circle for yes, and X for no. In the West there was a hard gravitation towards X being yes and Circle being no, for some reason, and for years games would have two different button mappings X and Circle depending on which region it was made for.
I read or saw a video about that O/X decision, if I remember correctly during US development/translation/whatever, they were focusing more on the button colors rather than the shape on them. So from JPN logic it was O = yes, X = no, while US it was red = no, blue = yes
32:37
This reminds me of a documentary i watched about England coming from behind to beat our Australian team in The Ashes, a regular cricket series between Australia and England.
I'll admit I'm not too aware of what was going on at the time, but someone in the documentary said that this occurred in a year when there was a lot of friction going on, such as riots and such. And they said that winning that series brought a sense of hope for them, maybe even unity and calm (which is a term you'll find comes up in FFX).
Knowing the talent our team had, and the player-selection chaos that occurred for England at the start of the series, this was quite an inspirational awe-inspiring victory too. I mean as an Australian cricket fan, I have a passionate hate for the England cricket team (like their fans have for us (see Lords 2023)) yet i was cheering for them as I watched that documentary. Wakka's point and your point about bringing hope and a time to forget troubles really resonated with me!
Addicted !! Don'T want to wait between each episode now ahah !
I was at two fingers to buy the final fantasy X/X2 remaster on the ps store...
Didn't play this since 15 years on my ps2. Was my absolute best game at the time (and still my best rpg I ever played). The ultimate goal was to fill up the sphere grid for all characters and find all beasts (some are very very rare) and of course find all best equipment for each one.
Well so many emotions so see back this game of my late childhood.
Oh no, you didn't save the kid in Kilika. The crying child is on a pier that is about to collapse. It's okay, I'm sure they can swim.
Loving this series, Ill probably watch it religiously. My advice for the sphere grid is to look for the nodes of the type of abilities they are already using: black magic nodes for Lulu, White Magic nodes for Yuna, Status Ailment Attacks for Wakka, Support skills like Slow and Haste for Tidus and so on. The paths are kinda straightforward.
There were prompts for the jecht shot. You need to point the joystick the direction that the words appear
One of my favorite details that I didn't notice as a kid but really loved realizing later was that each temple, or each fayth has it's own song variant to represent the soul that sacrificed themselves.
You are still in the silly habit of switching weapons and armor in battle. You dont need to do that. It doesnt affect the list of turns. It only grants you another turn if you need to switch a weapon or amor, but the number of turns you get to attack remains the same. So it is really pointless to do it unless your intention is to use a different weapon or armor.
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Yes lol
Boost! It’s driving me crazy lol
She typically records multiple episodes ahead of time before releasing. She’s probably much further into the game or even done by the time she reads this
Maggie, you’re doing great for your first play through and figuring out the battle system! quick pointers if you want to use them. you don’t have to do the armor when you’re in the battle. If you equipped it in the menu system, you’re good to go. That’s just if you find an armor isn’t working or you need a resistance to something you can switch it mid battle. and also you can use the extract sphere abilities in battle to steal ability spheres or mana spheres etc and then you can use them in your sphere grid. Have fun!! ❤
Also, it’s kind of tedious, but if in each random battle you encounter, you switch out so all the players are used within that battle they’ll all level up😊
Equipment menu tip: when changing character's equipment, you can switch to the next character with R1 or L1, just like when you switch to the next character in the sphere grid, you don't need to back all the way out.
I love watching you figure out the battle system and how everything works. I have to say I died a little inside though when Ochu only needed one more hit to kill him and you swapped in Yuna to heal instead.
they really frontloaded this game with the greatest cutscenes of the era. Zanarkand attack, Sending, Next big thing, Big thing after that, all absolute masterpieces.
I also love seeing the recognition of Aeons and Summons in other FF games as you are playing them and which role they have on it. That's probably one of the coolest things about starting with XVI, as they have such a strong presence there.
Also: I totally did the same with the Jecht shoot, whoopsies
Do you see the window when you target an enemy at 1:25:09? Do you see the colors red blue yellow and white? The ones at the x1.5 are the enemy’s weakness. Blue is water and white is ice. Use it more for landing overkills.
Watching the confidence with which she hurls Extract Power at fiends is killing me. 🤣
Avoid using the extract skills. The “Extract power/abilty/speed” skills are used to overwrite the items you get from a fight with power/ability/agility spheres for the sphere grid. That means if you use this during boss fights, you’re losing out on the normal drops you would get from a boss and just getting spheres for the sphere grid. Those skills only exist if you are low on spheres and need to farm them from fights. Try to avoid using them in boss fights because you lose out on good loot. It would be a good idea to look through what skills and abilities do in the menus. It also tells you what they do at the top of the screen while you hover over it during battles.
As far as the sphere grid goes, there’s no reason not to move if you have SP points to spend. There’s also no reason to not use spheres to unlock nodes you come across unless they are “key spheres” which are limited near the beginning of the game. Since you chose “Expert Sphere Grid” which allows for more freedom in leveling, the set character paths are a little more unclear.
As far as weapons and armor go in combat, you’ve just been selecting shat they already have equipped. That option in combat is more for switching when your weapon or armor is ineffective against what you’re fighting.
You can see what skills and abilities do by hovering over them.
Unlike other characters, Tidus learns new Overdrives after using it a certain amount of times, so use it often to unlock more.
It’s crazy how this is still visually stunning so many years later X really is a gem of a game
Extract ability
Extract mana
Extract speed
Extract power
Same with distel items gets you spheres kastaclysm 🎉
This. These abilities do not help in combat, they only help you farm spheres for the grid
@@cyberjarl she was trying to figure out what they did and how to gain the spheres or something
you’re my favourite final fantasy gamer in youtube ever, thank you so much for sharing your gaming experience with us, i can’t wait to see tidus decypher the al bhed language or play blitzball later
I love that you have yellow nails in this playthrough because it's one of my favorite things about Rikku's character design!
Kimahri was about to eat Barthello alive, until Yuna stepped in and took charge.
One tip I'd give is to make sure to keep talking to your main characters until their lines run out. It gives you extra lore and characterization. In FFX the main characters usually have 2 lines of dialogue up to 3 sometimes.
Also, I've noticed at the end you avoided talking to Yuna 2:24:54 and accidentally triggered a cutscene.
In general, it's best to talk to your party members first before moving around in case you trigger a cutscene.
17:28 Haha, didn't you restart the sphere grid tutorial in the first video too? Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...
45:07 Hearing random encounters being described as mini games is a first one for me. Fascinating.
51:17 You always start the battle with the last 3 you fought with. If you want a different set-up switch a character.
58:40 A tip but in the settings you can adjust it so that it shortens the Aeons' summon animations (excl. the first time).
1:03:38 That is the fun part about turn-based combat, in FFX especially. Figuring out what is the most optimal strategy.
1:05:35 While a tough cookie, Ochu wasn't as tough as I remembered. Keep in mind it's game over if you die, no auto-saves. So you would have to re-do all your grinding / leveling up when you do die.
1:56:28 Luna is a different FF character!
2:13:03 The way you keep calling the Sphere Grid circles webs is funny.
2:15:35 A tip but you can use L1/R1(?) when you're in the Equip menu and other character menus to switch character.
Forgot to mention the Ability cure that Yuna starts with... since we're giving unsolicited advice
Don't forget you can quickly change characters equipment screens with the shoulder keys😊
I thought it was interesting when you brought up how Titus is in tune with his emotions and how the gamer is able to hear what he’s thinking compared to other final fantasy main characters.
I guess as a kid I never realized that about him, but now it makes me think how unique this game is with story telling from the protagonist point of view!
Great analysis!
Hey kasta all the destruction spheres inside the temples give you a huge reward if you get them. I recommend getting them all but you can go back to get then later in the game. Although it's much more difficult. Also the jecht shot you could learn is amazing. If you want to roll back a little I would try again to get it
There's a missable one.
Won't say which or why cuz spoilers
@just-gaming213 there is and I know you can only visit that temple once. There's also a missable primer in there also.
Then besaid and another temple are much harder to go back to and get those spheres. Like you said though, spoilers lol
O heck yea now I have something to watch this afternoon much love have a great time :)
OMG your playing final fantasy X?!! how did I not know this until now!!! This is the perfect series for me to watch while I wait for FF7 part 3 to come out haha
I love the score of this game so much. The music from Besaid & Kilika is so chill & peaceful
Also, you can change characters on the main menu in the Formation tab under Aeons. Not just in battle.
the prompts for the jecht shot challenge were the text of jechts words appearing, where the text was is what direction you had to press
Love to hear your thoughts and comparisons between the other final fantasies! Please keep doing that with each entry you play Kasta !!!
The jecht shot challenge is possible to do, the prompts just aren't as obvious as you were expecting, its all about where the memories are written on the screen not just showing you what buttons to press
Also as a point the abilities you have unlocked extract power and extract ability etc, allow you to gain extra spheres of that type for the sphere grid, so of you're running short you can use those abilities to gain more of the ones you need
The sending was such a great scene back in the day. Unforgettable. I just know you’re gonna love FFXIII when you get to that one
Some tips:
1. No need to use potions/hi-potions to heal up if u wanna save them as long as Yuna is in your party with enough MP to use Cure to heal party members instead.
2. There's no reason to save S. levels unless you don't have the right sphere to activate a node. There are other reasons but they don't apply for where you are in the game yet.
3. If you don't use at least one action by someone in battle, they don't gain S. levels so u may want to get in the habit of using everyone at least once in battle.
4. When using Valefor in battle, keep using Sonic Wings to delay the enemy attack if they're not immune to it. You'll thank me later.
5. For your question at 1:29:10 - you'll eventually be able to insert abilities into empty slots.
I remember when Aerith did a very similar dance in FF7R. She didn't do it in OG FF7, so when I saw Aerith dance this is the exact scene I thought of.
On another note, at 28:40, I got a commercial break, and saw an ad for The Wild Robot, and as soon as it comes back in Maggie just sighs, and says "Children." It was the perfect out of context clip. I literally laughed out loud.
The Jecht Shot totally tripped me up my first time, too! Was fully expecting the usual blue FFX text box to appear. Instead, it turns out you're meant to input on the subtitles (memories) of Jecht. Slightly confusing! Also, I'll never get used to the Blitzball Announcer's voice! That's 100% Tom Kenny, using his "the city.. of townsville!" voice from Powerpuff Girls.
A bit of deep iceberg lore, Blue Magic: The characters in the FFX follow interpretations of classes or 'jobs' in older FFs you've probably already figured out. Tidus is Warrior, Yuna is White Mage and Lulu is a Black Mage, Wakka is an "Archer" or ranger of sorts, etc. But Final Fantasy also has a unique 'job' that's shown up in some titles, and that's a "Blue Mage". Blue mages learn the magic of their enemies as their core skill that often take on monstrous traits like Fire breathing like a dragon instead of just casting Fire. You probably got a taste of this with the Enemy Skill Materia in FF7R, but 7 doesn't really have as much of the FF "job system" that other games did. Kimahri is in this game a Blue Mage as you can now tell from his Overdrive. Two fun facts here are that it's a bit of a inside joke that Kimahri has blue fur to match his job lol haha, and also his starting space on the Sphere Grid represents him being able to learn from his friends just as much from the Fiends of Spira. His broken horn has another fun story about it's history with Summoners but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. "And that, as they say, is that" 😉
Always fun watching people enjoy their first playthrough of FFX. 🙌
Definitely my favourite game of all time and crazy to think how old it has become now. Can't wait for the next part!
Your videos have inspired me to do another run of FFX and play along. That Ochu battle was epic.
Already insanely addicted to this series, hope you're enjoying your early voyage in to FFX
Got a good little tip for you, will make grinding better in the long run. Try and use everybody at least once during battle, characters only need to do one thing and they'll get all the ap. If you're not using, say Wakka in a battle, have him come in for a move and just do it (i usually would do defend (triangle on ps2) because it's super quick.
Lore/Dialogue tip: Some characters will have new dialogue when you talk to them a second time.
You don't need to use items to heal in-between fights, you could use Yuna's healing abilities through the ability menu. Also, L1 and R1 can switch between characters in the equip menu.
The damage is the same for all weapons
The abilities is what differ them
almost all weapons... hehe
"I don't think that the juice is worth the squeeze there." Never heard that one before, I'm gonna yoink that!
those thoughts about not hearing clouds emotions or internal thoughts (as opposed to tidus) are important to hold on to and come back to after the 3rd game btw
Don't ever feel bad about the names! Everyone argued about certain names when we could only read them, and since this is VA, you will hear them before long (except Tidus, haha). Funny enough, I didn't learn how to pronouce "Ifrit" until FF16. Just have fun!!! This game is so special, and I just hope you enjoy it. This was the first story to ever bring me to tears, and I will always hold it in high esteem for that reason.
21:30 I'm pretty sure the regular version has the other paths blocked with Lv1 spheres so it forced you to take a specific route at the beginning (until you get can unlock it). They must have removed them in the international version. I noticed it when I played the HD version.
Is a real bad idea not to activate any nodes next to you on your path.... Like the flee ability for example, even if you run out of spheres and can't activate it at the moment, is better to wait in that spot until you u get more spheres, than leaving unactivated nodes
Ive binged the first 3 episodes and I'm addicted. It's bringing back so many memories 😭 although missing the first destruction sphere and then missing the jecht shot has me sent 😂 id personally start a whole new game 🤣 youre doing great though. Gonna spend the rest of my day catching up 🔥