FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster

This isn't about the game so much as this port. I generally prefer FFX-2 to FFX, the latter being far too linear and taking itself far too seriously (although the CTB combat system is the best turn-based battle system Square have ever used), but this port is just busted. Crashes constantly for no clear reason, with no warning, and no consistency. I actually had this on Switch until my Switch died and decided to pick it up again on PC because of the boosters, but the Switch port is vastly superior to this one simply for stability. Think about that for a second.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the storyline, the characters and even the combats. What I HATE about this in particular is the freaking BUGS!! HD cutscenes not showing and being replaced by green screens, characters disappearing during fights or cutscenes and even the game crashing. I had already played a few hours when it started doing that and whatever solutions I tried to find online to apply, it never got rid of the bugs. Again, I really enjoy the storyline and everything but it's just a shame that there are so many bugs. For first time players, this might ruin the experience of the game so I would not recommend buying it on stean at least.

This is a game from my childhood, and those who love a good story and RPG element must get this game
WORD OF WARNING THOUGH

Until I got a new laptop, this game played fine, however there are certain cut-scenes, and sadly the ending cut-scene had this issue, but I got a green-screen. Audio was present, but visuals were not. Google tells me its a graphics card issue and offered several suggestions; non that work

So be wary, if your laptop is new or your graphics card is new, then you might not get the full enjoyment out of this game, and with Steams refund policy, you might purchase this game and not get a refund if the green-screen issue is too much for you.

Other than this, this game is amazing!

20 years later I 100%'d this game.

Goofy costumes, silly voice actors, great relatively simple story by FF terms.
- unskippable cutscenes, lot of people dislike em, nice for people like me that skip all story. By playing the game you're essentially forced to follow along.

FFX has a well refined variant of turn based combat compared to earlier titles. Look forward to killing penance again in the future.

I have played and beat this game on multiple platforms. This games has great story telling, dynamic characters, YUNA NEED I SAY MORE

Still one of my favorites. I enjoy the characters, and the blitz ball mini-games. It's just an enjoyable story.

Final Fantasy X is the story of a man who travels to a far away land with no aim or purpose. He can't seem to get back home, so he makes friends and helps them on a pilgrimage to defeat a monster which has been terrorizing people for a thousand years. The setting is very unique it's inspired by Thailand and Indonesia, with some influence from Japan. There are no RPG's that I know of that have a similar world to that of Spira. The combat system is also excellent, I enjoyed figuring it out and the best way to level up my characters on the expert sphere grid. I'd recommend this game to anyone who enjoys turn based combat, unique fantasy worlds, and to those who love a good fantasy story. It's one of my favorite games ever.

I started out with FFVII, then found VIII, skipped IX, and then got X. they are old games by today's standards. Worth every bit of play time though. from the Originals to the remasters and remakes. If you can't find a Final Fantasy game you like then something is wrong with you. from VII to XVI (never played I-VI) every one of them is great.

Playing again after 12 years... Such nostalgic.. Still a great game

Love this game since I first played it on PS2 many years ago. Great story, addictive gameplay. The HD remaster seems to crash every once in a while but I still keep comming back to this old gem.

When the scene of Yuna and Tidus having underwater SEGGS came on, I also came in pant. Also Wakka being racist is a highlight of the game, 10/10, would be racist towards Al Bhed again

This was the first Final Fantasy game to be fully voiced, and they really knocked it out of the park! The party NPC's are all distinct, and interesting... the skill system is flexible enough that you can have near endless customization, and, thus, any party combo can work anywhere it gives you an option!

The ONE major drawback is that I LOATHE sports games, and the game does make Titus's sport of choice important to the story, and it crops up everywhere. The only time I could get through the bloody matches is if I got lucky enough to learn his signature move.

Unsurprisingly, the weakest aspect of the game is the main character. It's a common flaw in FF; in FF VII, FF VIII, and FF IX, it was the same problem; the least interesting playable character in the game was the main one.

For X-2, FF finally breaks the mold; Yuna is the main PC, and all three are fun. The gameplay changes drastically; you now have "Dress Spheres", which basically worked like you changed your outfit in battle & got new abilities. Different outfits reward you for changing spheres/jobs in specific orders. Lots of different possible combos. Each person has a unique dress sphere.

No major issues that I noticed. If you're a completionist in game, you cannot get 100% if you choose a certain faction. But you'll probably want to play through at least twice, anyway.

I played this game when it first came out and the HD version only makes me love it even more. This is a must if you like RPGs

Great game, blah blah, it's a classic. etc etc...
I picked up this version on sale, thank god. It's so buggy, crashes galore (high end PC & Steam Deck). that said easily playable, just don't get too frustrated over crashes every few hours.

If you are on the steam deck and FFX crashes while starting... just keep restarting.. it eventually works. usually between the 4th or 6th attempt.. something to do with the save file.

I can recommend FFX for gtx users, but I cant recommend for rtx users. I have a rig with a gtx 1080 works flawlessly. I also have a rig with a rtx 4090 it crashes at random times.

Arguably one of the last great Final Fantasy games. Grew up on it, even 20 years later still pick it back up to make a play-through. Truly a masterpiece that was ahead of it's time.

One of the best endings in the series. Offers a lot of endgame grinding too if this is something you like.

Finally played Final Fantasy X! Finished the HD remaster on Steam Deck with Untitled Project X installed and did almost no side quest. My playtime was around 25 hours.

(+) This story is bonkers. Loved it. (yeah, I was able to be completely oblivious to this all these years)
(+) Rikku and Wakka are great!
(+) The cutscenes are still incredible.
(+) I actually enjoyed the JP voice acting
(+) Pretty well known but the OST is absolutely amazing.
(+) The combat was better than I expected.
(+) It presented some emotional moments that I wasn't ready for.
(+) That ending.
(0) Tidus and Yuna were ok characters, not my favorites.
(0) The sphere grid was confusing at first but I eventually got used to it.
(-) I know you can customize your gear and all but it wasn't for me at all. Did not enjoy this part.
(-) Summoning was very “meh” for me
(-) Hated blitzball
(-) Very easy. But at least the final bosses provided a fair challenge.
(-) Still can't figure out why Rikku joined the party, but glad she did.
(-) The rest of the cast was totally forgettable.

All in all, a great game and an amazing entry in the series.

Awful port of a great game. It crashes frequently at seemingly random. Crashing got more frequent the further I got into the game, and became nigh unplayable at the Thunder Plains. Also pre-rendered cutscenes often will not be visible, resulting in a green screen with subtitles.

There's been said much and enough about the game, its flaws and qualities, so I don't need to tell you. If you really want to play this game, though, get a different version, but not this Remaster on PC.

It's prone to crashing in/after cut-scenes. With unskippable (!) cutscenes and rare auto saves/checkpoints this becomes a chore. I've played the PS4 version for 20h and never had an issue. 2 hours into this version and it already crashed twice. Don't buy the PC version, go for PS4 version instead or use an emulator for the OG PS2 version. They only added some few gimmicks in the PC version anyway. Which aren't really worth it.

Only plus is the random encounter toggle for none, normal, and frequent. Set it to 'none' for hassle-free exploration, and to 'frequent' for grinding a few levels you've missed. Obviously this isn't possible in the OG PS2 version, but if that's your only option I'd still go for that version. It's also hard-capped at 30fps, don't support proper 21:9 and have few visual settings. Supposedly there are mods for this, but then again, don't waste you time on patching and modding this version. Just get different one.

This game crashes constantly for no apparent reason. Exiting menus, exiting fights, etc. results in the game becoming non-responsive altogether.

Game crashes when I try and save the game, it's unplayable.

Some reason Windows Security is blocking save game files.
Work around - Windows Security>virus & threat protection>Protection history>allow

this version of the game crashes every 3-4 hours. it fucken blows.

One of the greats! The remaster does not fully capture everything that made the PS2 version a masterpiece and optimization on PC is not the best but it's still Final Fantasy X. If you haven't played it already, please do! "This is it. This is your story."

As a kid i could not stand RPG's (Nintendo era). I thought they were the most ridiculous kind of games. Pointless, i thought to myself. All the time i would make it a point to how stupid RPG games are. They were SOOOO boring. Just sitting there watching my friends play. I look at the TV screen & see nothing really going on. I looked at my friend & he looked like it hurt so bad to think. I mean they were really into this sh*t! It was years later that i saw the back of the FFX game box that i saw the graphics looked cool. So i thought it must have been something other than a RPG. Boy was i wrong. And boy i was pissed! It was a quiet weekend w/ no parents home so i figured ill give FFX a whirl before i return it. At 1st since i was new to the RPG game it was very frustrating. Once i got the button layout & used to the button presses, IT WAS ON! I was addicted. This was the very 1st game that made me really emotional. I felt as if i was there w/ Tidus, Yuna, Kimi, Lu-Lu, Rikku, & of course the Bad-Ass Sir Auron. It was as if i was on this epic journey. Pilgrimage. Adventure. Choose one cuz it was all of those then some. I did't want this journey that we set out on to end. It was very giving in that way making sure we had plenty of hours in this game. I am a big fan of the Turned-Base, grind em' out style. Having a chance to make your characters straight up beasts if u use them right. Magic, mayhem, sword swinging, potion-making, fun ass adventure. Laughs and cries. I admit i was pretty close to tearing up myself. In an goose-bump stick together, ride-or-die, I got ur back type of emotion. The graphics. Man, don't even get me stared. Look at games from around 2000 give or take a year or 2. Then look at this one. The cut scenes are still to this day will give u the "Wow" factor being from 25 years ago. There are so many things u can do. Side quests, dumb little games, secret weapons ect. The 1 thing i didn't like about this game was that there were some parts when they are talking. They act & say the corny-cheesy-ass staight up dumb things (especially Tidus). Only tiny bit. Here and there. The upgrading system is pretty cool too. It's a grid-based system. All of ur partys names are scattered all ove rthe grid & u can connt to the next dot or bubble or what ever. U can choose which direction u want to take each of ur team. Which kind of style of fighter thingy or whatever. They ecah have they're own unigue attributes, specials, magic, ect. Some more phyical. The others more magical. Anyway i don't want to give anything away cuz im really starting to get into this. This game is $30. It might seem high but this game was stupid awesome and it's been remastered with other options. Cool ones too. I hate the fact that the Final Fantasy games refuse to give us fans and gamers a break on the prices. Even with the sales man. Especially Intergrade & Crisis Core. The sale and regular prices should be way better than that seeing that they keep making a hunfred different FFVII's. I know 7 was good and all, but Jesus Crizzy! 10 was one of the best too. It would be nice if Square Enix would make a FFX remake or 12. If for some reason u like or love RPG's & FF games & u never played 10, then it's worth the price even today. It is on sale all the time so theres that. Now FYI, i said FFx was amazingly great, NOT FFX-2. There are 2. IDK what the hell they were thinking doing 10-2 . I give FFX seriously like a 95. This is my fav FF game. But i haven't played the remakes of FFVII. Cheers-

Great game, but the constant crashes make it impossible for me to recommend. Terrible port.

Bought it ages ago at this point, and waited for SE to fix the botch job they did on the character faces, skyboxes, and environmental lighting. Unfortunately the fixes never came, and the face models are completely off, and the facial animations that were so ahead of their time in 2001 are so much stiffer due to the animation data just not working with the new models.

Really a shame, but sadly par for the course for SE's handling of their remasters. The only one they nailed was FFXII.

If you can play the original, absolutely choose that over paying for what is a visually inferior/flawed version.

For everyoone experiencing crashes while starting the game and error messages in "windows event viewer" containing "Windows.Gaming.GameBar.PresenceServer.Internal.PresenceWriter"

https://gist.github.com/joshschmelzle/04c57d957c5bb92e85ae9180021b26dc

Thanks for nothing, Microsoft. I hate you.


While I'm here: Great game. I love it. Highly recommend.

Recommended. For me it brings back nostalgia as I use to play this alot back in the day. If you are new to final fantasy games and havent played this one yet it is worth a shot for sure. The story line is one of a kind and the cutscenes are incredible. I must say that the game offers a lot of side content too. I did get a few green screens but with every playthrough it was different. I did not run into any bugs/crashes either.

A trip down memory lane.
The playtime is maybe 40% unskippable cutscenes but I like the combat system so much it's worth it. I just alt-tab to watch a video or stream instead

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☑ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☐ 7
☐ 8
☐ 9
☑ 10

One of the best games in the series and still looks pretty good despite it's age. Has a very long story mode and you can easily lose many hours playing Blitzball. Awesome characters and a fun unique way to develop them. Beautiful music and some well done voice acting helps deliver an amazing experience. The "sequel" didn't slap quite as hard but was honestly still a fun story to play through. Definitely check it out if you are getting into the series!

Still one of the greatest games of all time. In my opinion, this is THE Final Fantasy game a newcomer should try out. Timeless story, and I would not complain a bit if it got that FF7 love.

Unfortunately with all the crashes and green screens I can't recommend this one. The game was good for it's time, but this port is just horrible. I shouldn't have to go to some guys post and download a fix, when the people that was happy to take my money could of fixed this themselves. They don't care about this game and I don't care about writing a good review for something that is half a#$ed.

Framerate was quite jumpy, did not notice this issue on the PlayStation 4 version. I played through the entire X-2 intro as well, got to a save point, and the game crashed just as I tried to save -- losing all progress. Refunded this item, sadly, as it seems it is unstable and there is no available fix. What a shame, normally a wonderful game.

Great game, my one complaint though is that the entire screen just turns green during important cut scenes. Have to restart game or watch cut scenes on YouTube

This is the first Final Fantasy RPG I've played and can say that it was a magical experience. The game play is great, the sphere grid leveling system is very unique and it's fun to explore different builds you can use on characters, The Characters are very engaging, and the Story is just in a league of it's own. I definitely recommend this game to anyone looking to get into the Final Fantasy series.

As a notice, there are some issues with some cut scenes cutting to a green screen possibly due to a memory leak. I did not have the issue too much but there is a fix listed by a used named Jali in the community tab.

Finally experiencing this game 24 years later after release... I started this up with no nostalgia & shockingly spoiler free. That is despite playing most of the mainline Final Fantasy franchise. Being rooted as a 2001 console game means many parts of this game are a product of its time, however that being said some of the outdated aspects give it a charm that allows that fact to not ruin a good game.

Pros:
-Engaging story with thick lore.
-Memorable characters.
-Good gameplay mechanics.
-Some beautiful FMVs.
-Good amount of individual character customization for abilities, stats, & equipment. A system that really lets you go far with it if desired.
-First game in the series to include voice acting.
-Lots of optional side quests and end game quests for those who want to do more.
-Great music.

Cons:
-Story is rather convoluted & at times very confusing. If you are not a lore hound & either take the time to fully explore it all within the game or educate yourself in it online it can come off as nearly nonsensical. Had I not taken the effort to deep dive into the lore & looked for various explanations I suspect I could have played this game 3 times and not fully understood its multi layered themes and narratives.
-Being a 2021 title I was expecting this games frame rate to be easily matching/exceeding my maximum 144hz display even at native 4K, That is not the case as the game is hard locked at 30 FPS with no reasonable mod being available to increase or unlock it. From what I gathered it has something to do with the game engine itself and that is a hard limit if you want any sense of stability or practicality,
-Game optimization is inherently poor. I played on my Ryzen 7 7700X with a RX 7900 XT & 32 GB of DDR5 6000 CL 30 on a high speed PCIE 4.0 NVME SSD. My performance utilization showed that all of my components were barely breaking a sweat as expected. Yet somehow there was more than a few odd dips of the frame rate hitting into the mid 20s periodcally. Clearly something with the coding or game engine is horribly unoptimized. I know even today Square Enix has a reputation for delivering rather lackluster PC ports but come on...
-I really hate Blitzball.
-I do not like the sphere grid system. It initially comes comes off as very unintuitive & the game does a crappy job explaining it. While it clearly was an experiment, I found it to be very time consuming, complex, unforgiving, & grindy(and not in a good way with too many wasted empty slots).
-Very random difficulty spikes. Some of my game overs were just due to literally bad luck and my entire squad could get wiped out without even giving me an opurtunity to react. Save spheres were often few and far between & even with taking time to grind I had more than a few close calls.
-Unskippable cut scenes that were quite long, and almost always set to play before a string of difficult back to back to back boss fights adding even more insult to injury. Infuriating.
-While generally a pro, the English voice acting at times was just awful. I suspect most of that was due to some weird voice conversion errors as sometimes it seemed like they would play the voice line but at x5 speed. Very poorly done at times and jarring.
-Some of these temple trials were conjured up by lunatics. Seemed like nothing but time wasting padding and the puzzles range from annoying to insane.

Despite my criticisms, I do think that this game is worth playing. I can understand now why its held up with the hype its carried even all these years later, something that I do not think the passage of time can change, Its a story that will probably hold up in my mind & while it has its lows it has some very high highs. Give it a shot, or if its been a long time, give it another play through. I know I will.

BEST GAME EVER! been playing since i was little and iv never fell out of love with this game, the story, the music, the art design, all is absolutely 10/10 - yes there is a lot of grinding but i would say it 100% best game out of all the Final Fantasy's out there - if you dont cry at the ending are you even human... 7 is a close 2nd imo but not the remakes...they are kinda poo and don't have the same feel as these amazing games.

great game horrible port not very enjoyable when my cutscenes turn green and game crashes every 5 minutes due to the few mods i have so the characters don't look like they've been on crack for 50 years
only recommending because it's a good story and game but you have to choose between making your characters look normal with mods but your game crashing every 5 minutes or having to stare at heroin addicts for 20 hours
(or just play the ps2 version)

Played this after getting annoyed with FFVII Rebirth and was not disappointed. FFX came from the era when Square still knew how to tell stories and not just make pretty graphics.

My favorite game and FF ever, I played the remastered version on my PS4 for the first time 8 years ago, And I just love everything in this game, The story, combat, characters, music, minigames, visuals, voice acting, both in X and X-2. (and the class system in X-2 is fucking amazing and super fun)
For me this game still tops most of the games I played in recent years considering it's more then 20 years old. and I wish square would do more justice for FFX especially after the will drama.

what a fucking game. its my first final fantasy and i had a hell of a time. amazing story, lovable characters, and probably the best romance i've seen in a game, i really loved Tidus and Yuna.
The grind can become kinda daunting after a while, but the built-in turbo, frequent encounters (or no encounters) and overcharge made it less time consuming than it had to be.
i've yet to play FFX-2, but when i do i'll update this review. for the time being: PLAY FINAL FANTASY X!
(also install untitled project x, it makes the experience 1000 times better with the shared exp and bug fixes, i didnt have any crashes or bugs in my playthrough)

I simply cannot leave a negative review for FFX, but yes, this is a very bad port. Maybe one of squenix's worse ports. Some games you just go to steam library and click play, let me tell you all I run for this game specifically.

Special K (Project X)
Lossless Scaling
DsHidMini
DS4 Windows
JoyToKey
Lightshot

I should mention that only Project X is necessary but Lossless Scaling with LSFG 3.0 makes the game look actually smooth and not choppy (i.e. This is a 30fps game and LSFG 3.0 does frame generation to make it look 60fps). LSFG still struggles a bit with stairs though but everything else is good. There are other frame generation programs out there that are free unlike Lossless Scaling btw.

DsHidMini and DS4 Windows is to get my ps2 controller working with steam games (ps2 to usb adapter).

Lightshot and JoyToKey is because I couldn't get Special K's screenshot to work with FFX (I mapped L3 to printscreen).
Also, in Special K you can go x2 speed or more without speeding the music, I have that mapped to Select + R2.

To top this all off I had to install some mods to fix character models, Tidus' face and hair just being absolutely atrocious. Just go to Nexus mods.

If you don't use at least Project X you will have green screen cutscenes and probably crashes, you may need to update Project X if you have an older version because I think the older version didn't have the 4GB patch. I wanted to mention all these things I use in case newcomers want to optimise their experience with this port further.

Game works worse then it did on my ps2. Almost all the cutscenes dont work and the game crashed about 50 times in the 40 hours i played. Still a great game but your better off getting it on something else

How to make a man cry simulator.. 12 used to be my favorite and now after finishing 10 i can confidently say 10 is my favorite now. the characters, music, and world are all unique and were done phenomenally
10/10 would recommend !

The whole package is dollar per hour worth it, wait for a sale, it's a bit sappy but like it's a fairly linear and approachable entry for Final Fantasy. I think the Sphere system is sorta the messisest system to work with but overall most things are pretty well explained and straight forward. Not blitz ball, always go look up a guide before you lose the first match enabling manual movment makes the sport way more fun and managable.

Its a nostelgia game from childhood with so much touching moments. Too bad sometimes in the movie cutscenes, it will show green background only. Maybe its my computer problem

Its a good game. The best part is the story and the music. The battle system is fun, and the characters development is there, but really focused on the main couple. The stats development and the map exploration is barely useful. The bad i guess it will be the bosses in the main line, is just not that good. I consider this TOP 5 of the FF line.

9/10 its Final Fantasy...

its amazing
great story, great graphics, great characters just fantastic!