Final Fantasy Meme Day 2

[moonwise]

Not even a question on this one: FFX-2, or Pretty Pretty Princess Dress-Up Magic Go!!!! (as I call it.) I should probably save this for Day 11, because it's my least favorite and a gross disappointment.

FFX was such a sad, sweet story, which made me very excited for FFX-2 when it was first announced. I was so happy that Tidus and Yuna might get a second chance. Then the weirdness started. Yuna... a pop star? Really? Rikku wearing even less than she did in the first game? LeBlanc getting orgasmic over a back rub? Really really really? The game was so... sexist. Yuna was never one of my most favorite characters, but she had a backbone of solid steel, and to see her turned into a vapid singer with hot pants on was disappointing.

The Dress-spheres were pretty terrible too. Being able to change jobs in the middle of a battle was a nice idea, but the truth of the matter was that battles usually didn't last all that long. Plus, you couldn't put on your Super Special Prom Dress until you'd passed through all the other nodes, by which time either the battle had ended or the monster had eaten you. Some of those Garment Grids had eight to ten nodes on them, which meant you'd have to change your dress seven to nine times, and so Limit Breaks were more or less useless. If the turn-based battle system had been retained, it might have been better, but there were so many options to scroll through that I could never find what I needed in time.

The creators wanted to get away from FFX's themes of sadness, but FFX-2 didn't balance that well enough. If it hadn't been FFX's sequel, maybe it would have worked on its own. But it didn't work at all for me, and it ended up on eBay.