Now, I've had this game for at least 4 or so years, but have almost never played it. Until about two week ago, when I woke up and said, "You know, it's about time I finish the FFX series. Starting today." And so began my epic, 100 hour long quest to finish Final Fantasy X-2. It was rather embarrasing to play, I must say.
Final Fantasy X-2 Storyline (9/10)
The storyline of this game starts out rather slow, in my ever so humble opinion. How does it start, you say? So, 2 years after the events of Final Fantasy X, the ever-so-annoying summoner and female protagonist, Yuna, has suddenly become a scantily-clad popstar singer. A very bad singer at that. I don't want to describe the terrors of the unskippable-pop-song-laden-introduction, so I'll just post a link to it instead.
Anywho, Yunie, Rikku, and some random Auron/Squall-esque newcomer known as Paine, are spherehunters. And what do spherehunters do for a living? Why, they spend their time hunting for records of Spira, the planet's, past, through the collecting of spheres, which are pretty much disposable video cameras. Now, this doesn't sound like it'll make for a very good storyline, right? Wrong! It, rather surprisingly, I might add, does get really good...
So, Rikku delivers to Yunie, of whom is in Besaid, a sphere containing a recording of someone who looks akin to Tidus from FFX. This is what makes her a spherehunter to begin with. Then, she goes of and finds another sphere containing a recording of some massive robot named Vegnagun, which resides under the once-religious capital of Spira, Bevelle. Yuna is like, "OMG VEGNAGUN IS EVIL AND TIDUS MIGHT BE NEAR IT LETZ GO DESTROY IT BEFORE IT SHOOTS SPIRA WITH A GIANT CANNONY THINGY IN IT'S MOUTH!!!" So, Yunie, Rikku, and Paine go off to the underground catacombs that just happen to be under Bevelle, and they don't find Vegnagun, but they do find Dark Bahamut (say... didn't they kill DB in FFX International... twice?!), of whom is oddly pissed off and attacks the party, of whom owns him. Severly.
So, now some pointless boring crap happens, and they find out that the guy that looks like Tidus in the sphere is really some dude that just happens to look exactly like Tidus and just happens to used to live in the same place as him 2000 years ag
o. And, he gets control of Vegnagun, and, being very bitter about the old Bevelle troops that shot his girlfriend down (of whom looks almost the same as Yuna when she's in her popstar outfit, which means she also looks like a prostitute, which I guess was common bussiness 2000 years ago in Zanarkand), and decides to release his anger by shooting down all of Spira with Vegnagun. Now, doesn't that just seem like a really stupid idea? Bah, whatever, evil guys never know the consequences of doing evil things until it is too late.Yunie is all like, "OMG TIDUS CLONE AKA SHUYIN IS GOIN TO OWNZORZ SPIRA WITH MASSIVE VEGAN GUN LETZ GO LIEK OWN HIM AND STUFFS WITH OUR VARYING OUTFITS THAT GIVE US SUPERPOWERZ!!!!11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11ONEONE!!!!1111" Rikku is like, "YEAHHHHH!!!!!", and Paine's like, "Whatever..."
So, you descend into the afterlife of Spira, which, somehow, Shuyin has managed to get Vegnagun. Once you arrive, Yunie gets this crazy idea, using love to seduce Shuyin into thinking that he's your boyfriend, then going in for the kill. The party goes off and battles Vegnagun in a 4 part battle which are all incredibly easy.
Then, after owning Vegnagun, Shuyin comes out, and is seduced by Yunie. Then he's like, "YOU ARE NOT LENNNEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!", freaks out, whips out a sword, and attacks the party. Then is pwned in, about... 3 hits.
Somehow, Lenne walks out of Yunie after the battle, obviously suggesting that Lenne was possessing Yunie throughout the entire game (in my opinion, not really canon, but whatever) and struts over the Shuyin and is like, "OMG SHUYIN I LOVE YOU THANKS YUNIE!!!! LOLOLLLLOLOL!", then both Shuyin and Lenne disappear. Yunie ends up seeing Tidus again, as portrayed in this cutscene. I don't really feel like describing their reunion, so click this link and watch the dang video. Just skip to the 3 minute and 30 second mark and you'll get past the credits.
Overall, I thought the storyline was really cheesy, but the whole thing with the Dark Aeons returning made me give it a 9 out of 10 instead of a 7 out of 10. I liked the story, but the overly-feministic values annoyed the hell out of me. >_<
