So like a lot of people, I went into this game being spoiled on some plot twists, it wasn't that big of a deal because I wasn't spoiled on too much from the game. Now to talk about it. I like the game. It's really good. The only complaint I have for a character would probably be Tifa since it was mainly during Acts 3 and 4 that I started caring about her. Speaking of the acts, it was Act 1 of the game where I wasn't too sure if I'd like it, but the end of Act 1 and the rest of the game was really good. The gameplay was good, not much else to say about it tbh. I liked some of the minigames, that snowboarding one annoyed me, but it wasn't too bad. Overall, a great game, and I can understand why a lot of people love it so much.

Before playing Final Fantasy X, I'd heard about people I knew about how good the game was, and, at the time, I wanted to get into the Final Fantasy series, so I played X as my starting point. Aside from a few minor problems I had with the story that popped up occasionally, I love this game's story. Tidus and Yuna's story is one of my favorite love stories of all time, and I love this party too, Auron being my favorite of the bunch (even though that's probably what a lot of people think). For a PS2 game, it also looks beautiful. I know the cutscenes are pre-rendered, but it doesn't change the fact that something like those cutscenes was made in 2001. I liked the turn-based system in this game too, along with the Sphere Grid. Beautiful game.

I can't think of another cast in an RPG that I love more than this one. Even without the side stories (which I fucking love), the main cast is just amazing through and through. Same thing with the heroes. With Nia, I was scared that she would be done differently than in XC2, or that they'd just ignore the character development she got in that game. (I wouldn't know about Melia since my dumbass played Xenoblade 2 first and then this game right after) But Monolith said "Fuck all that" and did her right. Something I don't like about most JRPGs (atl from the ones I've played) is that I can't get creative with it, do many combinations, and try out many new things as I did with Xenoblade 2 and their blade system, but this blows that out of the water. It's just an amazing and unique combat system all around (even though I find it funny that they change clothes with the classes). I've mentioned my opinion on some of the area OSTs in my last XC3 review, but I'm going to mention the other parts of the OST, like the offseer themes and cutscene themes. Beautiful. My favorite OST in an RPG. Speaking of beautiful things, the game itself always makes me wonder what would happen if this game was on a different console, cause it looks too amazing to be a Nintendo Switch game. Now for the story. Absolute Cinema. My only gripe would be Joran as a character, but really, that's me being nitpicky. I forgot to mention another thing. I'm a sucker for love stories, and Noah and Mio's love story is my favorite of all time at the moment, and it's going to be hard to surpass that. This is probably the most passionate I've been about an RPG, but we'll see.


Before I make a Future Redeemed "Review", I wanna play Xenogears and Xenosaga I-III to get more context on the references.