Final Fantasy X HD Remaster Review (MAJOR SPOILER)

Finally Home!

After a long business trip, I finally sit in front of my PC again.

How are you guys?

While I was on the trip, my only entertainment was my Ipod plus PS Vita that I played everyday once I arrived at the hotel room.
The only game I played was, FFX-HD remaster.

Anyone play it?

Wow, all the memories as my first PS2 game come back at once.
And now, it looks more beautiful, not significantly, but better for sure.
No more jaggies on my PSVita, and it seems the HD remaster was the international release edition one.

But, there's a different playing experience between now, and about 12 years ago.
It's how I look at the story.
Now, as I become old and older, I just realized how sad and yet beautiful the story is.
No, not on the love story side.
It's more on the theme of the whole story.

It's more like a satyr story about us. Yes, about us.

How people in Spira was divided into groups, racism (how they saw Al Bhed peoples, Ronso or even Guado). How the game portrait Yevon's believer really make me smile, since it's really happened here, where I live.
They blame every disaster as a punishment of peoples sin. (it's funny how they call it "Sin" in the game ^_^)
at the same time they tried to battle the disaster itself.
But they are pretty stubborn to see other people using their own way/faith to see and battle Sin (See how Wakka see Al-Bhed?). It's quite deep story indeed.

And finally I saw the notorious laughing scene... again.
But, rather than see it as something silly, I just realized something.

How Yuna and Tidus laugh so hard to cover their sadness is something touchy.
That's what I do everyday to cover my sadness too.
Of course I'm not laughing out loud like them, sometime I usually just smile even when I feel so sad, in order to make someone else smile. Ironic, isn't it.

In short, FFX is such a beautiful game, even if the gameplay is not everyone's favorite, but for me, it's acceptable.
It still has Final Fantasy's feeling/soul in it.

The Eternal Calm was good too, it's a sequence between FFX to FFX-2. Now you'll know why Yuna changed so drastically (even it's still silly >_<), but it's quite fun to watch.

It would be a great remade, until...

I listened to the bonus Audio Drama. It took place AFTER FFX-2 end. After the "finally happy ending" sequence in FFX-2. And this drama really disturbs me.

If you guys a fan of FFX story, you must know that, the writer of FFX Kazushige Nojima release a novel before FFX/X-2 Remaster was released in Japan. It was called FFX 2.5 Eien no Dashou (永遠の代償)

At it was notoriously bad... really bad.
Lots of fans were very angry, and in the end SquareEnix said that the novel was a Gaiden/spinoff.
If you want to know what made fans really angry, the synopsis is more like a netorare/hentai/doujinshi parody of FFX story.
In short:
Tidus and Yuna on honeymoon, their plane was crashed, and the two are stranded in an island. Romantic isn't it?
And Yuna wear a one piece swimsuit in front of Tidus, and suddenly a monster appear.
Tidus said he couldn't concentrate because Yuna was too sexy (>_<)
After a while Yuna get angry to Tidus, the reason is... because "he can't do it anymore" (yes you guess it yourself)
Tidus got frustrated and went to the beach where he saw a blitzbal!

And he kick the ball hard, when he realized the ball was a bomb!
BAM! Tidus got blown up, his head was flying high and finally landed on Yuna's hand. She passed out (of course >_<)
Tidus was dead.

Yuna so sad, so she find a way to revive Tidus, and finally she met a priest that say there's a way to revive him.
And the only way is by... having sex with Tidus dead body.

It's not a hentai/doujinshi or April Mop, and Tidus was revived...

The book ends with a  "to be continued..."


As we know, lots of fans were angry because of this silly book.
And then... the audio drama took place... after the novel... so basically the novel was not a gaiden...

Crazy isn't it?

The drama tells us that Yuna now (implicit) falling in love with other guy (maybe a 14 years old boy, I'm not kiddin' just listen carefully). And she want to break up with Tidus.
(Because this Tidus is not the real Tidus anyway, it was more like an Aeon/Fayth. Just like Seymour, so he has different personality)

It tells the story on Auron's daughter.
Yup he has a daughter. (after I replayed FFX, I just now that He was in relationship with a priest daughter, so maybe she is her true daughter)

And the story end with the unstable farplane because Yuna's Tidus revival. Sin is coming back, every dead peole coming back to Spira.


So, if Square can messed up the story, why shouldn't I ? Maybe I'll do my own version of the story, haha...