Final Fantasy X-2 - T

The game focuses more on tasks and stabilizing the world than on fighting evil.

Publisher: Square Enix USA Inc Category/Genre: Video Games - Role Playing Games Platform: PlayStation 2 Price: $49.99 Graphics: Excellent. This game follows in the tradition of "Final Fantasy", with many of the same backgrounds, colors, and images, along with some updated graphics, which add density. Playability: More focus on nonlinear mini tasks, with varying degrees of difficulty. Reading Level: 10+ Note: text is accompanied by voice-overs. Release Date: 12/17/2003 ESRB Rating: T

Common Sense Note

FINAL FANTASY X-2 takes a lighter approach than the previous game in this series, "Final Fantasy". The game focuses more on tasks and stabilizing the world than on fighting evil. Because it's complex, it has many diversions and detours, and it may frustrate young players. Best for early teens.

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Common Sense Review

Reviewed By: Sarah Stockton

FINAL FANTASY X-2 is based on three female characters, Yuna, Rikku, and Paine. Perhaps because of this, the story line is more focused on quests related to relationships and world-building, as opposed to simply encountering and conquering endless evil monsters. There is plenty of battle action, but the overall feel to this game is one of challenges and emotional depths rather than simply charging ahead into the fray.

The basic story line focuses on Yuna and her quest to find and reunite with her long lost friends from the previous Final Fantasy game. The story line itself is fairly straightforward and in fact, you could play through this whole game fairly quickly, in terms of basic plot. The makers of FFX-2 incorporated a new battle strategy that offers countless opportunities for exploration and task-solving in "mini games", which potentially can add well over 40 or 50 hours of play time to the game and are complex in and of themselves, although they don't necessarily add interest to the initial story line.

FFX-2 is more task-oriented than many RPGs, including the previous games in this series. Fans of detailed story lines that have an overarching and complex theme will be disappointed with FF X-2's reliance on mini-diversions which may keep the player busy, but don't necessarily add to the overall impact of the main story or the characters.

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