Final Fantasy X: 20 Years Later 

Not sure if it's been mentioned already, but the "boingy-boingy" instrument is called a jaw harp. It's also used to lay the rhythm in the triple triad theme.

I think what happened with Wakka's brother Chappu was the reason Wakka got so invested in Yevon and blamed all Al Bhed for his death. Important story plot to understand Wakka.

I played FFX and lost touch with it over the years. When I found it again recently and watched FFX-2 endings, it was the closure I never knew I needed but got after learning the story line. FFX has been cemented into my soul. Beautiful, is an understatement to how well this game and story was made.

Hey everyone. Thanks for being so patient with me while I put this insane video together. Between that and my day job, shit was stressful for a while, so knowing I had your support meant the world to me. You all are awesome!

Can't believe you didn't mention "Wandering Flame" the best track on the entire OST and plays through Tidus' journey through Spira.

I love this game. And I made sure to speak with every member of the group at every opportunity, even multiple times until they repeat something they said already. Players can get a lot of info on both the story & dynamics doing so just as they do in finding Jecht spheres laying around all over Spira. Like why Kimahri is with Yuna and how she ended up in Besaid despite Bevelle being where she's originally from. Little things like that are gems in Final Fantasy games I enjoy most.

This game was so different, it’s exactly the reason why I love final fantasy

So glad this video popped up in my suggested. Final Fantasy X came at such a tumultuous point in my young life and I saw myself in Yuna, I admired her resolve and her strength. I thought “if only I could be that strong.” I smiled, a lot back then, even when everything was falling apart, so much so that people asked “why do you smile so much” or said “it’s weird.” I stopped smiling one day and that was when the weight of everything I had to experience began to crush me. Ultimately I wasn’t as strong as Yuna, but I always find myself returning to this game and its sequel when I am at my lowest. X-2 wasn’t awful or unnecessary like other comments have stated, but that audio drama was. 😂

This island and religious themed final fantasy was amazing. The visuals and voice actors for the time were wonderful. Aurons speech against yunalesca shook me as a youth.

I've been really enjoying the video so far but there is two things i wanted to point out. Seymour does have a compelling motivation to be a reoccuring villain, and it is explained in game, though apart from the jyscal sphere and the flashback of him and his mother in the Blitzball dome in Zanarkand, the big details are missable through an optional sidequest. He isn't pining after Yuna, she is a means to an end. He wants to become Sin so he can use its power to kill everyone in Spira. He knows the final aeon process due to his mother being his guardian and becoming Anima. Through the trauma he experienced in life he has snapped and truly believes the only way to end suffering in Spira is to end life in Spira. This is all explained in the Anima sidequest. The second thing is there is an easy way to see the sphere grid as a whole. You can zoom all the way out actually. And everyone's paths are color coded. Still takes a little bit of looking i suppose but it is simple enough to figure out where to go.

I love seeing a new retrospective video on this game uploaded every half a year or so, makes me keep hope alive for X-3!! Great video!!

The first FF I played, beautiful ost, world building with charming characters. The Luca theme always makes me smile. Lulu best girl btw

Something important regarding Jecht: He was only verbally abusive towards Tidus, and his drinking was a result of his skills as a blitzball player were fading with age. It's why he went out to sea to train, which is something he never did prior. The only time Jecht did something physical towards anything while he was drunk was towards the Shoopuf, and the fallout of him attacking it lead Jecht to never drink again. I don't think the game made any attempt to handwave his abuse towards Tidus, as he does get to confront and finally say to his father that he hated him, but rather show that Jecht just wasn't equipped to be the father that Tidus needed. Jecht was apparently quite kind to Yuna, so its implied that in Jecht's mind, that he had to be kind to girls and tough with boys, and he was very tough with Tidus, who responded negatively to that kind of parenting 'style'.

I love this so much - thank you for this detailed review. I am a similar age at 30 today and still feel so nostalgic with any mention of FFX. The romance was just beautiful - the scene at the Malacania Woods is something out of a dream for me. I had a massive crush on Tidus when I first played it but he does come off as a lovable idiot now LOL.

Omg the Yunalesca fight blew my mind as a kid! The song that plays as Yuna, this quiet & soft spoken teen with such strength/fortitude makes her grand speech, strengthening both the player & the party's resolve before entering this epic 3 stage boss fight (and I despise the word epic). Wish you showed a bit of her other stages the visuals are top notch. I don't think they've made a comparable FF game since this one. FFX-2 was a fun 'summer vacation' feeling game although the end boss was underwhelming with barebones music (so disappointing) no other FF made me care so much about the characters/world/lore/ending/etc. The mix of ruined future city, Asian tropical island décor, the submarine themed Al-Bhed; the world building presented at every turn is 10/10 and I wish they'd revisit the world of Spira. So beautiful!🥰

This video immediately teleported me back 20 years in time, sitting in the corner of my parent's cabin, having been finally allowed to buy my very first console after months and months of nagging. It came with this stupid Japanese RPG I didn't really care about, and a copy of Devil May Cry I was fawning over. After finishing DMC, I didn't really have anything else to play on it, so might as well see what this other weird game is about. Life. Changed. Forever. This was probably the first time I ever experienced a story which just wouldn't let go, even after finishing it, and I have been hunting for its equals ever since. I might have some exceedingly strong sentimentality over this game, but even trying to look at it objectively, it is by far the strongest and most impressive story and worldbuilding of any FF game before or since. I've gone around and played most of the FF games by now, and nothing has managed to quite scratch that initial itch that FFX brought on to a young impressionable myself. There are a lot of tragedies in the FF series, but nothing hits me as hard as watching Yuna breaking down ,trying to deny reality, right before Tidus jumps off the ship (Oh, and thanks for ruining that beautiful and hauntingly sad ending by tacking on a completely unnecessary sequel which made it completely redundant. Real good job there Square. I'll just continue to go about and pretend it doesn't exist). I really do wish Square would try to go back and make a completely different game than their usual affair like this one. One less gloomy and full of brightness and life, even if the story itself is at the end of it all a tragedy, and with actual likeable characters who are properly fleshed out with their own motivations and agency. And while I'm at it, it wouldn't hurt to get rid of their hack and slash-esque combat which completely removes any challenge and problem solving other than just mashing buttons in the correct order, which have plagued their latest games in the series. Seriously, if I want to play War of God, I'll play War of God.

I've seen you play almost all of these and now can't wait to watch the vid.

I just hope that we get a remake one day... the character models looking exactly like the CGI cutscenes would be insane.. the world much bigger.. ugh i wish that dream would come true

This is one of the best videos focused on nostalgia I’ve ever watched. Bravo 🎉

I have been screaming for a blitzball game for like 10 years. It brings tears to my eyes to find another person wishing the same!

The moral oral video popped up on my feed a month ago, enjoyed it a lot. Random show I would watch with robot chicken while in high school. Same time in my life I was playing games like FFX which happened to be my first final fantasy. Your voice is easy to listen to and it was interesting to hear your takes on a classic game like this. Keep up the hard work and passion, it shows in your videos!

I understand what you say about finding different meaning in a game with age, I remember playing ff9 when I was a teen, I liked, but it didn't left too much of an impression on me, I played it again in my 30s, It literally make me cry, several times, the themes of death and inevitability are as close to my heart as anything can be, unlike sephirot or Seymour, I perfectly understand why kuja did what he did. FFX didn't do the same for me but I still enjoyed it and I enjoyed your video.

you can sort items in the inventory menu. sure there's no "filtering" but you CAN sort items. Also the GRIND in this game is SO FUN! At least it was for me.

A very thorough and well put together video. Nice job. 😎

Jecht's story isn't one of redemption so much as it is one of understanding. There was things Tidus didn't see of his father and how he showed his love wasn't clear to Tidus as a kid. Yes he was an alcoholic and he did shit he shouldn't have but that was minor and resolved in the stories told of his journey. In the end, Jecht's love throughout the entirety of Tidus's life is made obvious but Tidus knows that his hatred of him is what made him who he needed to be to free Jecht of what he became in Sin and so that's why his final words to him are "I hate you" because through this resentment is how he came to find out that his dad loved him and that he loved his dad too because the line between love and hate is very fickle.

I am playing through this one right now. I’ll come back and finish this video once I finish the game. It’s my first FF, but I just never find the time to finish it, but it is very good so far.

'In huwwuhawa temple' fucking lost it.

Fantastic video, great job brudda.

41:22 Okay, Macarana Woods got me pretty good but Lake Macalaya... was amazing

Blitzball is awesome. Those who didnt like it either dont like sports games or they never took the time to actually learn how to play. I spent hours playing just to take a break from the main story. Admittedly, I didnt get it on my first playthrough and I probably wouldve said it was stupid if u had asked me back then but I got into on my second playthrough and by my third, I was hooked. I think that once u have put in enough time to get Wakkas legendary weapon then you probably enjoyed a lot of it.

This was amazing and gave me chills at some points

Amazing man. I can remember all this, even playing the demo in Sam goody

I personally like that they made jecht have his redemption story offscreen , coming from someone with parental issues as well, the way I see it is that; yeah the parent was an ass, but they had good intentions and sometimes it’s not entirely their fault either. My parents had harsher parents who ingrained that toxic “tough” love into them so when they had me, they assumed because they weren’t AS harsh as their parents, they were doing it right. I now know not to hold it against them because it went back to how THEY were raised. So the final battle with jecht and how awkward they both are hit me hard. Because that’s how I am with my mom. I didn’t need to see a redemption to understand the feelings between them and it still makes me cry to rewatch that scene.

The quality for this is up there with some much larger channels and I gotta give you props for that. Had this on the background while grinding madden thanks for the help 🫡

Great video keep it up homie! I really like X too, every time I watch videos like this it makes me appreciate it even more. From the incredible music, the polynesian setting, all the lore they created just for one game, the past and present story and of course the romance. I hope someday a studio tries to write a romance that connects with me like this one.

This was so well done and did my favorite FF game real good! You Rock, MM!

56:00 I don't see any other comments discussing this, so I'll say it: I think you have some misunderstandings of the order of events and what is actually happening here. Firstly, Fayth explanation explicitly states that Zanarkand was destroyed first, and then the dream Zanarkand was summoned after with help from the survivors. The summoner who did that, Yu Yevon, then summoned Sin as his armor to go and get revenge, but lost his humanity in the process, possibly unintentionally. As for the location of dream Zanarkand, I don't see how you got the conclusion of it being physically located in the world, let alone the ocean - it seems pretty clear that it is sort of "virtual" as in it is entirely a dream with no specific physical location in the world. That aligns with how other summons can continue to "exist" even while they are not actively summoned into the physical world, they don't teleport to and from some secret storage location in the physical world. This is also why Tidus is able to sort of re-enter the dream world by touching the Fayth wall, it's likely Auron entered the dream Zanarkand the same way. The Fayth can't stop dreaming as long as Yu Yevon lives and refuses to end the summon, but it seems they were at some point able to get Jecht summoned into the physical world, and then Auron and Jecht as sin helped get Tidus out into the physical world as well. The place Tidus wakes up in the physical world is just where Jecht/sin left him. So, Sin was never intended to "guard" the "physical location" of dream Zanarkand, because it doesn't have a physical location and Yu Yevon probably didn't expect the Sin thing to turn out like this. It all sounds like it was done in the heat of grief and anger; so many lives lost to war, a desire to recreate the city that was lost, and a desire for revenge against the attackers, not a healthy mental state to be in when summoning powerful magic armor.

You are able to sort equipment in the Inventory/Items tab of the menu (not equipment). Yes, it's weird, but that's how. I am sure someone else may have said, but I can't see that in the top few comments

You can sort item by checking your item list > clicking equipement > then sort auto (all of this is a the top of the list) then your item will be sorted in to sell as well 1:17:50

Another amazing video essay to listen to while doing homework or playing video games!

I was so glad when you played a clip from the first sending -- that's my favorite version of the Hymn of the Fayth. Sometimes I'll look up that scene just to FEEL something....... [chills]

One thing I think is often overlooked about Jecht is he wasn't so much neglectful, but Tidus was always wanting his mother's attention, but she was always fawning over Jecht which lead to resentment n then blame

Cool video bro

1:35:40 Iirc, the intended method of discovering the secret coordinates was to discover all the Al Bhed Primers and fast travel back to locations that had those blue plaques mounted to the walls/sides of the environment. This is actually pretty cool except for the fact that some Primers are _literally missable_ and if you missed your chance to get it, and you saved your game past that point. You HAVE to start over the entire game, _but_ , retain that files Primer Knowledge. Which admittedly, the first time is pretty cool when you're playing through Ruined Zanarkand when Rikku first finds you, and you can somewhat understand the Al Bhed this time. Other than that, it is disgusting in its implementation and absolutely rude in punishing players who just weren't perceptive enough and are then required to sink another 7 hours into the game just to find that 1 Primer they missed _if_ they even know where it was that they missed it. At least the internet spills the coordinates/messages the Primers reveal so it's not too much of a hassle but my god, when I first played this and I figured _this_ was why I missed 3 Primers on my save file I think I would've gone insane

This video is amazing, FFX and even FFX-2 will always have a very special place in my heart it was very ahead of it’s time

Criminally under-viewed video. Enjoyed the fuck out of it, thank you for making it.

Just got this on my Nintendo switch !! Been playing since I was 9 yrs old back in 2002. This game changed my life growing up.

This was excellent to watch. I loved this as much as I love FFX.

Once again an absolutely amazing look at a final fantasy game

*MY WYFE* This was the first FF I really got to play and got into it. Such good memories lol

Ha look at that. Interesting video, I'm actually wrappin up the last bit of monster arena stat maxing/dark aeons before I get the platinum.

Choose your unexpected RU-vid video intro fighter: Skill Up's Boat metaphors or Meromorphic's 9/11 comparison

I love the insights you've brought to the game in this review. I feel one point I disagree with you on, however, is the relationship between Jecht and Tidus. I agree that the game does work at painful lengths to turn Jecht into the tragic hero, to push the player to forgive him, but I think this is offset by the final confrontation. The last thing Tidus says to Jecht is, "I hate you" - then goes on to embrace Jecht at the end. Furthermore, it is shown through Tidus growth, that he /does/ look-up to his father in some manner in his wanting to be a blitzballer, and his wanting to even be able to do the same shots that Jecht can and "be better" than Jecht, and even using the same type of weapon that Jecht himself used. The game I believe goes at length to prove to the player why Spira loves Jecht, even though Tidus cannot, and this comes to a head when Tidus, despite it all, still cannot say "I love you" to the man who sacrificed himself to save a nation, a man who he did his best to be just like and eventually outdo. I agree that the relationship could have been explored more, in particular why this is such a nuanced relationship and why Tidus cannot love the man, but I think the relationship is appropriately explored.

When talking about the special mechanics in some battles you showed a clip from the Macalania battle with Seymour. Did you also know alongside the trigger commands, if you use Steal against the Guado Guardians, they cannot use auto-potion anymore?

Farming experience in that first fight with Sin and then shredding everyone but that last boss to paper was the most power I have ever had; I'm still chasing that high.

In Part II, THERE IS A WAY to sort equipment by player, but you have to do it from the menu not the buy/sell menu. You actually have a command that says "sort"

I do want to say, about equipment, there is a way to sort them. You go to your inventory, go to the equipment tab and it gives you the ability to auto sort or manually sort.

I was in 7th grade in 2001. I recalled getting it on a Friday evening and playing it until the we hours of the morning.

Jecht was more negligent than abusive. Also, Tidus is an extremely well-written character, easily the best Final Fantasy protagonist. Anyone who hates him or finds him annoying does not fully understand and/or appreciate the depths of this game's story and characterization.

I remember playing blitzball for days on end. I would just go into the game and do that for an entire day. Looks like I’m gonna have to go back now 👀

Sorting weapons and armor is a sub menu accessed through items

That scene where Tidus and Jecht high-five at the end always makes me tear up. The only FF I've ever beat more than once.

Its funny as i just reinstalled the game recently and end up on your channel. Cool video. This game was ma true first j rpg as a kid and going back at it now with more maturity made me realised one thing. How in touch with our times the story is. The concept of Sin(the boss), the idea that humans fought each other with machines so powerful it could destroy earth...trying to always control everything and thats "how" it was born. That nature will always take power back over humans ,one day or the other and that we cant control it. And so much positivity and deep philosophy following Tidus growth. I cant stop but feeling a huge flow mixed of nostalgia and happiness replaying this game. (Ps : the fighting system is so good if you get intouch with its basics such as overkill,switching char, boosting and much more...)

Liquid water... If you get a warm glass of pop at a restaurant Do you also ask them for more frozen water?

yay

??? Pretty sure Jecht was never abusive towards Tidus. He might have accidently put him down emotionally, but it wasn't abuse. He just wanted to show off to his son because he wanted his son to think he was cool. The only reason Tidus hated his dad was because of his mum being a massive simp and Tidus was a mamas boy. Any time Jecht was around his mum acted like he was invisible. So if anything, it was his mother who was abusive, just he blamed his dad for it.

Yesss

I'm ready for a Blitzball game!

Ya i get it. Doing all of the capture arena and maxing the sphere grid takes ages. Its really hard to find motivation to do it again when you already have. Im sure the feeling of acomplishment after a second time isnt as great either

The coordinates are written in Al-Bhed. You have to decipher the Al-Bhed language to read the messages left on Al-Bhed ruins

Final fantasy 10 was that initial moment as a 10-13-year-old finally picking up a video game with enough self to actually remember interacting with it; and how much it impacted and just expanded my viewpoint and was just an adult story that really hit me hard and like it had meaning. I never had that with media before. so it always be something very special to me deff the best Final fantasy in my opinion

I’ll never forget getting 0:00:0 in the Chocobo race as a kid and not getting the sigil. You technically need to get BELOW 0:00:0 even if the game doesn’t show a negative time. I was so pissed because I had been chocobo racing for literal days.

Oh Good god ……what a great summary of THIS time !!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤ #Nostalgie 🎉

Man I remember when George Bush made his appearance in Final Fantasy X. Just before he was about to jump into sin he said “it’s bushing time” to Tidus&co. Made me tear up so much.

And that, as they say, is that.

my first FF and will always be my favorite

Please make a vid on FF7 , I love these type of vids and they’re pretty relaxing to listen to and relive 🙏🏽

Boi…. This shit hits different when I’m watching it while grinding omega dungeon 😂 good video man

You the goat keep this game alive

Every time I play through this I make him ask a million times, ride ze shoopuf?

The remaster kicks all sorts of ass! I’ve got is for the PS4 and the Switch, on the go Blitzball rocks!! Great video for a great game!

This is the GOAT

Great video. If you ever replay the game you should try the HD version. On top of the international bonus Aeons, it has some quality of life features, and the option to play with an unblocked sphere grid so you can build characters as different classes from the start.

I just re played for like the 30th time 🤣my favorite Final Fantasy ,I still pray it gets a remake

honestly this game deserves a full remake . tidus and yuna are pretty much artificial celebrities.. everyone knows them and i typically dont pay attention to males but tidus is a damn cool lookin dude, and yuna is just deadly beautiful

It took me 3 whole games for me to win that first fight during the opening of blitzball

I absolutely love the Square line of games with the Final Fantasy being my all-time favorite series. I started with FFII on SNES and then FFIII through X-2. FFX is probably my favorite game ever and I grinded hard for everything but I'll admit my darkest secret: I absolutely sucked at Blitzball, lol!!! I mean I really tried at first but I had bad luck and some close games I lost and I started to hate it with a passion and still have Animus towards it, hahaha. Anyway, great video, great reliving of memories and I want to say thank you. Later gator

VIII will always be my favorite FF and favorite video game period. X however is my favorite FF narrative by far and in fact as I’ve only recently realized, my favorite narrative of any medium of all time. ❤

whats funny is that Final Fantasy X is my #1 game, not just RPG, but video game. And it came out when I was born. I only got it when I was 8 because it was an older game by that time and the PS2 was an older console, so we bought it pretty cheap. I have so many memories trying to get past the one Machina that kidnaps Yuna, and you have to fight it underwater with Tidus, Rikku, and Wakka. I remember not understanding a single rule of Blitzball and getting angry at losing the first match against the Luca Goers in the story, and not understanding that I was _allowed_ to lose. Seeing those cutscenes always made me feel like a kid again and it almost makes me cry every time I see Yuna and her guardians together

The fact it takes an hour just to recap the story shows how deep it is.

This game is nostalgic for me because it was the last game I was able to play. They moved on to hack n slash dynamics after this (apart from a few remakes and handheld exclusives)

the biggest beef with FFX is not being able to skip cut scenes

*When you think you finished the whole video, but he starts talking about the gameplay:* 💀💀

Love your FFVIII "love story" and this video as well! For me FFX is my love story, all the emotions you felt with VIII I felt with X... For some reason the the emotions that the game make me felt really struck something deep. It was one of the only game that has ever made me cry and be sad, but at the same time trigger a rush of adrenaline and happiness... FFX will, no matter what people criticize, be the epiphany of gaming for me! It was the introductory drug into life of gaming and the last nail in the coffin for my love of the FF world! Amazing video, amazing work and so glad there is someone to relate to regarding the love that FF games bring into this sometimes dark world

Playing the original FFX on PS2 now. Enjoying the classics.

I don't know why the crusaders and Al bhed thought they could beat sin. I mean it's very clear. MAGIC MUST DEFEAT MAGIC.

My favorite final fantasy game to this day.

I don’t know why but “liquid water” made me 😂☠️

I just realized the way the faces are rendered in the original copy of the game, look better than the remaster

Although I don’t agree with everything, I greatly enjoyed this. Also appreciate literally anybody talking about final fantasy X. Will always be my favorite video game of all time.