[Locke]

Whenever it feels like I'm getting into FFX, I'm assaulted by all out boredom again. I like travelling around, fighting monsters and getting new skills, that is what an RPG is to me but FFX is action light, talking heavy. There is nothing wrong with an RPG focused on its story, world and characters, honestly these days we could do with MORE RPGs like this but it's just so atrociously acted that I find it impossible to care about anything.

Yuna literally sounds like she is reading from a script, complete with pauses where she appears to be catching up with herself while Tidus regularly stumbles around, or audibly forgets his lines and these are our core duo. It just feels cheap, did they do the whole thing in one take without a single rehearsal? Could they not afford better actors? Or at least a better mixer who could work around what they have and try to polish and tighten it? Jesus. How can I care about these characters when they sound exactly like what they are, pre rendered bits of code with people reading lines of dialogue over the top?

And yes I know, it's a ten year old game and holding it to the standards of modern games is not fair, but I'm just a little shell shocked myself I guess at how creaking and ancient this title feels already. Have games really come that far? Or is this just another case of Japan refusing to progress like they always do with their sentai shows?

If that wasn't bad enough, I finally got a taste of Blitzball that the game wont shut up about and who...the hell designed this abomination? I LOVE table top board games, if I had friends I'd be playing them every day, but table top doesn't translate well to a video game when literally the only addition is animation. If I wanted to play a table top...I'd be playing it. We had competent sports games in the early 00s so I physically can't comprehend why they went with a structuring for this game that feels so broken and archaic.