Solid Story though cringe at times.
Fun mechanics and bosses

With the return to the traditional turn-based combat by the removal of the ATB system and the addition of interchangeable party members, FFX manages to offer the best combat in the golden age of Final Fantasy. Despite my personal FF fatigue and the fact that it is the easiest FF game I have ever played, it excels at providing a fun gameplay that still holds up in 2025.

Instead of an Overworld, FFX opts rather for a linear gameplay for the better in some parts and for the worse in some other parts. While this approach avoids the reuse of each area just like in FFIX, this allows the game to take a more story-driven approach. While the overall voice acting is decent for the time it came out, man must keep in mind that Yuna's VA fails to meet the average VA quality in the game. When it comes to visuals, although the character animations clearly show their age, compared to games came out the same year such as Max Payne, GTA3 and SH2, FFX's graphics are such a treat to the eyes for a 24 year-old game.

On the down side, however, although FFX's story isn't bad, it is clear that the story is stretched in order to meet the 40h mark for JRPGs in that era which causes the game to throw at the player more cutscenes than the actual gameplay. As a result, this causes the formula to get old by 1/3 of the game as it goes as:

Cutscene -> Gameplay on a linear path -> Arrival to a place and the search for other party members to trigger a cutscene -> Search for another party member to trigger another cutscene -> (Sometimes) solving mediocre puzzles through spheres -> Another cutscene -> Repeat

If the cutscenes were skippable, man could beat the whole game in only 10-15 hours. On the other hand, the blitzball mini game also fails to meet expectations which, honestly, might be considered as insignificant as Final Fantasy has never been great at the mini game department.

Fantastic pair of games. Utterly dreadful on Steam. I get crashes when loading, i get crashes while playing, I get crashes during cutscenes. I have had to face the SAME boss like 5 times because its crashed SO much. If you want to play these games do NOT get them on steam. Play them on console. Anything but steam. It takes 2 or 3 attempts to just get INTO FF-X as it crashes while trying loading the game SO bloody often.

Fantastic pair of games, wasted on Steam due to just how unplayable it can be at times. The crashes can be when you load up the game while playing the game, while watching cutscenes. Its just a bloody mess. Given how long its been out i highly doubt they will come back and fix the MANY issues which is awful.