7 Final Fantasy X Facts You Probably Didn't Know 

We hope you all enjoyed the video and found the facts insightful! There's plenty more in store for the channel between now and the end of the year, and we can't wait to share more stuff with you guys! :D ~Darryl/Lauren

FFX has some of the most beautiful game music ever.

The summons in this game was by far the best system in the series, they should have kept it

I'm glad Auron remained a separate character from Jecht. Older characters who serve as surrogates and mentors are interesting archetypes I personally like seeing in media, especially JRPGs. Badass characters are almost always depicted as gruff or independent, but fatherly or motherly figures with pasts outside of the plot come across as stronger and far more relatable to me. Auron's arc in particular resonates with me; his sudden outburst when he confronts Yunalesca for the second time hits hard. The fact that Auron honors his word to Braska and Jecht out of brotherhood and self-accountability rather than blood relation makes Auron's character who he is, in addition to his excellent voice actor and writing. Aside from Matt McKenzie, Hedy Burress and JAT make this game for me. Wouldn't be the same without Hedy's giggle or Tidus's ponderous monologues.

I loved the battle system in this game. It was perfect. Too bad everyone is slobbering over action RPGs and hate turn base.

Who else remembers being up at 3 in the morning on a saturday trying to keep count of all the lightning bolts you dodged.

I cannot believe how well this game holds up to this day, it’s beautiful.

This is one of the best ffx facts you didn’t know ive seen in a long time. For once I didn’t know about any of them. Easily my favourite ffx game. Thanks man.

This game changed my childhood. I still play it on my PS-4 absolutely love it.

I love FFX, my first foray into the FF series and my favorite game of all time.

Offhand observation here, but man... that shot at the end of the video of Tidus in the water looking up with the grin on his face is still really striking! No wonder they used it as the game cover (at least in the U.S.). All the color blue and the ruins in the background is just a really, really beautiful shot. I haven't seen it in a long time, and it's really cool.

Yeah, Lulu's victory pose really adds to her character.

Legend says, fans of FFX still sing the Hymn of Fayth till date... So do I..

JAT is Tidus and even in one of his RU-vid video he thanks Jack for casting him in that role. I think this was his breakout role and now he well know VA. I love his Obi Wan but James Arnold Taylor is alway Tidus to me and he always happy to come back to voice him.

I cried at the end of this game, so good. Miss games like this.

I find it funny that they wanted to cast nobodies, but JAT, Tara Strong, and John DiMaggio became some of the biggest voice actors of the century.

Earth: auron is a pateint, tactical, nurturing figure who was the backbone of the group. Mercury: Wakka likes blitzball

I absolutely love this game. I literally cried at the ending of the game. Still my most prized PS2 game.

If you pay attention, most victory poses, especially by blade weilding characters, in any jrpg, they're less posing and more shaking the blood off their blades. Even as exagerated as they are in some cases, you can still see it. Cloud's sword spin is a good example

-monster dies. -lulu flashes her bo*bs at the crowd over dying monsters -Me: Hmm This is something new :D

Really wish FF would go back to ATB or Turn Based someday

the design of this game transcended almost anything I had played before.. I kept questioning why I found it so immersive and never able to fully understand it, which made me love it even more

Is anyone else like replaying ffx for the xth time?

Such a masterpiece. This really broke the wall for my gaming experience as a 12 year old in 2004. Great story, solid battle system.

The part where the translator changes the planets associated with the characters ressembles a discussion over the difference between two versions of the poem "The Crow", written by Edgar A. Poe, which are Portuguese translations of this poem. The first version, which was written by Machado de Assis, keeps the structure, but it doesn't preserves its catarsis well. The second, which was written by Fernando Pessoa, breaks up completelly with the structure of the poem, but its meaning and catarsis were preserved. All of this discussion made me see how the translation matter is more difficult than people usually think.

I loved playing this game as a teenager. I didn't have many friends nor were my parents home around because they were so busy with work, so this game comforted me for many years. I miss playing it for the first time very much!

Till this day, I'll never understand why they scraped Cloud's buster sword in FFX! THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN AWESOME! They should have included it in the HD Remasters! Great list, Darryl!

Listen to my story... This may be my 15th time Edit: Grammar (Hope the SS pays well)

At first I doubted you could provide any facts I didn't know of already, since I have been playing the game since it came out on ps2 and already seen numerable “fact videos“, but I must say you did you surprise me with this one. Good job! 👍

Huge FFX fan so coming in I had a very jaded outlook of "Oh, boy, let's see what 'facts' they're gonna have that I supposedly won't know...." and will say that wow, ya'll definitely surprised me. Great video!

FFX was the best Final Fantasy of all of them. I always had tears in my eyes meanwhile watching this video. This game is so beautiful and I have played it many many times through. And I would do it again.

Best Final Fantasy hands down

12 year old me learned things about my body because of Lulu.

Great video. I honestly didn’t know any of these. FFX is one of my favourite games ever made and I’m glad, close to 20 years on, it’s still as loved by so many.

Holy shit, I never thought I'd see mention of yaz0r's work on a RU-vid video so long after! I actively use the FFXView still as a study for 3d models, rigging and the texture styles. Big props for the mention!

I remember Final Fantasy X and X-2 received the most cosplay out of all the final fantasy's

Every time I watch these I think I'll know at least 50% of the facts... Always pleasantly surprised! Love how much research you guys do.

Without a doubt the best Things You Didn't Know about FFX video out there. As a man that FFX provided an escape from a troubled upbringing, thank you for showing me that there are still things to unravel about this game almost 20 years later. Can't tell you how much this game means to me.

These videos are always so well done; thank you!

i just love this masterpiece 😍♥️

This is probably one of the only facts videos that I've watched where I legitimately did not know most of the info provided! Thank you.

I came in expecting to know all the facts as I've watched several "# facts you didn't know about FFX" videos...I knew none of them. Excellent research. Thank you.

FFX is one of those wonder games that are not only truly ahead of its time but that everyone should play. I wish Square Enix had the balls to deliver another timeless game like this and FF 12 :\

We need MORE FF X / X-2 info!!!!! But thanks for doing the research on this! Loved the bit with the voice actors towards the end!

Bought this game for Ps2, Ps3, Ps4 and Nintendo Switch. Basically, I love this game.

clicked the video with a laugh and a "try me" but you didn't disappoint, nice work

As a westerner, I always felt having Kimahri assined with saturn is because he is an outcast, like saturn gets cast asside and banned by Rhea after Zeus won against him (and also because his horn is broken and saturn gets robbed of his manhood, so ...) and Wakka is assigned to Iuppiter because he is the member in the group who protects his religious believes the most, like Iuppiter protects the cities with the biggest/most temples in ancient greece and rome. So in a way, I found it fiting.

That FFX ending theme when Yuna sacrificed the aeons... All the aeons vanishing.... This was to me more sad than the Tidus scene

Still one of my favorite games of all time!!! Top 5 forever!

This channel is what actually convinced me to fully jump into the final fantasy series after only playing 7 remake and 15

I loved this episode. You guys should do an episode on X-2

This was really well done, I was expecting 6 generic facts and maybe one I didn't know, but you dug deep and got some good ones. Nice job.

dodging 200 lightning bolts was such a pain in the ass

It’s amazing to think that twenty years ago FF IX And X were developed at the same time and now, Square Enix along with many other companies will only develop one game at a time

2:50 I just realized that everyone in this game wears a necklace. Siggghhh I love this game :3

IF YOU HAVENT DONE X-2 PLEASE DO SO! I LOVE THIS CONTENT. Ty for coming to my TEDtalk.

The decision to cast Lena Headey and Sean Bean in Kingsglaive was a strange one in my opinion. It wasn't so much the casting themselves, it was the fact that they only did it for the film and not for the game, which made it a pretty jarring transition.

I loved the bit about the voice actors, the characters are bigger than the voices of those characters

Here is one most of you don't know. Final Fantasy 7 is a confirmed sequel to X and X-2. It takes place 1000 years after shinra successfully uses vegnagun to extract mako energy from the farplane with Rins financial compensation. The buster sword you see in 10 isn't clouds, it's the original bustersword and it's different from clouds slightly for a reason. They chose for some reason to remove it on release and it was never explained why. The interview: ―Is there a connection, for example, with Shinra’s name, which of course reminds one of FFVII? The “last mission” line and Rin’s “I am not alone in my thinking” line from “Detective Rin” have strong implications. Nojima: “As a matter of fact, yes. Shinra quits the Gullwings, receives enormous financial assistance from Rin and uses Vegnagun to extract mako energy from the Farplane. However, he can’t complete the system to utilize the energy in a single generation, and the Shin-Ra Company is built on another planet in the future once travel to distant planets is possible, and stuff like that … Those things happen about 1000 years after this story, though.” ―So the story of FFVII is after that? Nojima: “I guess you could say those are the feelings I have about it. When I think about the characters, those are the images I already see. Shinra is a good kid, and yet his descendants are going to be like the President. (laughs)” Watanabe: “Speaking of VII, after being told about the Shinra scenario, one of the staff members said he arranged the camera work for the first time you see the Bevelle Underground to ‘feel like something you’ve seen before.'” Toriyama: “That’s right, it looks like the opening shot of Midgar in FFVII.”

I like how you do genuinely give facts that most people, even hardcore fans, would likely not know. Most stuff like this is clickbait like " i bet you didn't know that Tidus is actually a dream".

James Arnold Taylor:Voice actor of Tidus. Me:So he's also Johnny Test and Ratchet? That's amazing!

the top facts that you miss is that. Most people probably didn't even know that it's ok to cry at the ending of FFX because many others did you are not alone. "You're gonna cry, you'll cry, you always cry, see you're crying'' - Jecht

The music in this game will stay with me forever

Man. 4 minutes in I don’t know if I can watch this video. This game was such a huge part of my childhood I’ve probably beating it 6 times and at one point defeated dark shiva

Not gunna lie, I love that little nod to the god-tier NIN/DNC in the FFXI snippet.

Great video! Love that you actually did research and gave lesser known facts rather than all the mainstream ones! Can't get over your pronunciation of Tidus, sadly xD

Interesting video :) Some other facts people may not know, related to FFX: 1) Uematsu had originally written "To Zanarkand" for a flutist friend of his, but they said it was "too gloomy". He used it in the game instead. 2) A popular Hong Kong artist (Sammi Cheng) copied Rikku's look in one of her music videos, "wonder woman". The fact that we are still talking about this masterpiece 20 years later proves how good of a game it really is.

Was my first FF game and still the best one for me.. i mean 7,9 and 12 are really good games but ffx .. the Story.. the Feelings.. the Emotions HOLY ffx is perfect

I remember playing this for the 1st time an just thinking wow this is a technical achievement that a home console is producing and not a pc

I feel so relaxed watching your videos

Sup brits it’s Kevin hope y’all had a nice thanksgiving keep doing great things you’re living the dream across the pond. Love yall

“Far too ambitious”... *FFXII pops up on the screen* FFX is my favorite. Thanks for this.

It's funny I see this a week after starting ffx again for the 6th time in 4 years! I have never played a game that captivated me so much, especially the first ever time I played it in 2005!

Kimahri being partnered with Saturn is pretty accurate. Saturn was connected to the Greek's Cronus in Roman myth and was exiled from Olympus by Zeus. That reflects Kimahri not being welcomed on the sacred Mt. Gagazet. Also, Saturn was taught agriculture and peaceful ways, which reflect the Ronso's connection to the earth and their worshiping of the planet.

FFX is probably my favorite FF game alongside 7. But I still haven't finished FFX-2. 😂

I always thought Auron looked like Bruce Willis so for him to be dead is also kind of funny

I've played this game since its release on ps2 and still can't bring myself to beat it before I restart...I don't want ff10 to ever end I guess. Best final fantasy with the most gripping story, amazing soundtrack and emotional cutscenes imo.. love it forever

I didn't know any of these things. Usually these sort of videos don't tell me anything new. Thanks it's nice not being click baited.

Do an origins Aya Brea PLEASE! Show Parasite Eve some love!

This will always be my favorite game ever

I believe a prequel game with Jecht being the starting character would be awesome.

Man, I felt hecka bad. I just got married and i was cleaning out my old stuff with my wife who just moved in and we were storing and throwing away old games and discs. Ps1,2,3,4,xbox and pretty much all my old games from different gaming systems. I threw away a lot and stored a few. But I exclusively separated my Final fantasy X apart from everything else. I was keeping that one on display in my living room. It got late so I went to sleep and the next morning I noticed she threw away the old and I didn't mind....until i couldn't find my FFX! I looked in the storage, the trash and all over my room. She was sleeping and I woke her up in panic, "Were did you put my FFX game?!" She looked scared and got up to say " You left it outside by the door". I went and got it and I stared at it... Man this game meat so much to me that I almost raised my voice at my wife, I felt ashamed of myself. It hurt a lot but I just stored it away and I apologized to my wife. I never mentioned to her before how much this game meant to me. I'm a gamer at heart and I love the final fantasy franchise and I'll always love FFX but it's time to grow up and be a husband now.

Such a wise decision about the voice acting, I couldn't agree more. Great video.

I don't understand the stubborness in pronouncing the name wrong. Should we call Yuna Yuhna instead of yoona? I remember as a kid watching the TV commercial for the game and it was always Teedus.

The celestial weapons were hard as fuck, took me over 400 hours of trying to complete the lighting dodges 200 times in a row. Insanely hard & still the most fucking underrated achievement ever.

Bought and played this game 5 times on different platforms. PS2, 360, PC, PS4, and Switch.

"Tidus is, in fact, Meg Ryan." I KNEW IT!!!

Dope video. I have played this game a ton and was surprised at how much of this video I truly didn't know!!

That old demo trailer that was running on way more powerful hardware that looks wicked good

Great video. I will always come back for more FFX content.

this game was my introduction the the ff series when i was 19. been hooked ever since

I think it's a great decision that Square decided not to use celebrity actors for voice acting. FFX had many flaws as a first attempt, but in their next attempt in FFXII, it was phenomenal. Also, despite we making fun of "Tidus laugh", at least we associated that with the character so well that it is Tidus, not some random Hollywood star, that we remember today. People are already referring to Death Stranding characters by the actors' names rather than character names. Had that happened with Final Fantasy characters, it would have been catastrophic of the series.

Ok, I really never knew these facts about X. Goes to show what a deep game it is.

God this game truly awoken the artist in me. Ffx is beautiful in every way

The one that blew my mind the most was the John DiMaggio one. That was something I wish I've always known!

Another thing you didnt know about ffx is the1 amount of controlers went broken when players trying to acquire jecht shot for the 1st time

My favorite video game soundtrack of all time!

Wanted to play this so bad when I was a kid but didn’t have a ps2. Playing this on a ps4 in 2021! Still fun

Dude - what is the music you have playing in the background on this video - it's lovely!

Love ur inference... brought my understanding of the celestial systems to another level... man i didnt know the soundtrack were subtle hints until u mention "...dream will end...." ok.. subscribed!!