Reasons why FF10 was terrible:
1.) Overly simplistic combat: Switch in character that enemy is weak too. IE, Wakka for flying creatures. Kill creature in one hit. Switch in auron for armored creatures, kill creature in one hit. Repeat boring combat over and over, and without a 'heal all' spell for the majority of the game.
2.) Awful main character: Tidus is whiny, his outfit makes him look like a boy band member, and he's constantly crying "I hate you daddy". On an annoyance scale of 10, he rates a 13 or 14.
3.) Music subpar at best. One of Uematsu's worst performances, possibly due to the assistants he had to work with during this game. (I think it was the first time he had to deal with that?)
4.) Blitzball. Sucked. Ass. Getting Wakka's ultimate weapon took my level of hatred for this game to all new highs.
5.) Square's overbearing and awkward use of religious symbolism has gotten incredibly bad over the years. It was painful and clunky enough in FF7 (but at least managed to work reasonably enough), and in FF10 with Sin they went way over the top.
6.) English translation and voice acting: The game may have been better in Japanese, I don't know . But what I do know, is the english voice acting destroyed all pacing of dialogue and rendered the comedy unfunny, the pathos wooden and unconvincing.
7.) Plot moves slowly and is predictable at best, boring at worst.
8.) Grid system promised new and interesting ways to make your character unique while leveling! And yet.... really you followed a linear path, but instead of having your attributes given to you automatically at level up, you had to micromanage doling out the points. By the time you could really start getting your character strong enough in other areas, you could max out the grid and they were all identical anyway.
In comparison, FF6 had a score of great characters, beautiful soundtrack, an engaging story, swift plot movement, fun and interesting combat, espers were a bit cumbersome for the leveling bonuses, but not overbearing like the grid system. Great villains, great heroes, lots of fun.
In order of greatness, skipping the NES games
FF4, FF6, FF Tactics, FF9, FF7, FF8, FF5, FF12, FF10
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