Final Fantasy X is about how living in a post-scarcity socialist utopia was fucking awesome, but after it got merc'd by an alien parasite a new deeply regressive hierarchy formed fueled by how hard everyone :cope:ed over losing their awesome techno cities. The female protagonist (who is strangely not the POV character) realizes that her participation in this hierarchy is only perpetuating a cycle of immiseration and becomes a class traitor, destroying it and killing the parasite and freeing the world to once again progress towards being a post-scarcity techno utopia.
Square was weirdly scared of not making a teen boy the POV. In 12 the main character is the princess but they make a random teen boy with zero story relevance the POV. The second most important character storywise was still the "guardian of the MC" guy but he couldn't be the POV either because he was like 30 (aka ancient old boomer, not POV material).
All FF games also follow the typical shounen anime tropes. A weak and often character-flawed teen boy undergoes character arc to god-destroying strength then literally fights god.
I'm overstating it a bit, but in terms of gameplay it's the peak of "classic FF" and the story is good - the main drawbacks are the over-the-top character designs and the bad voice acting.
Final Fantasy X is about how living in a post-scarcity socialist utopia was fucking awesome, but after it got merc'd by an alien parasite a new deeply regressive hierarchy formed fueled by how hard everyone :cope:ed over losing their awesome techno cities. The female protagonist (who is strangely not the POV character) realizes that her participation in this hierarchy is only perpetuating a cycle of immiseration and becomes a class traitor, destroying it and killing the parasite and freeing the world to once again progress towards being a post-scarcity techno utopia.
Square was weirdly scared of not making a teen boy the POV. In 12 the main character is the princess but they make a random teen boy with zero story relevance the POV. The second most important character storywise was still the "guardian of the MC" guy but he couldn't be the POV either because he was like 30 (aka ancient old boomer, not POV material).
All FF games also follow the typical shounen anime tropes. A weak and often character-flawed teen boy undergoes character arc to god-destroying strength then literally fights god.
This makes me want to check it out
It's genuinely a fantastic story.
Which unfortunately suffers from being really hard to follow at times.
I don't agree that it suffers. I think the complexity only serves it.
I'm overstating it a bit, but in terms of gameplay it's the peak of "classic FF" and the story is good - the main drawbacks are the over-the-top character designs and the bad voice acting.