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KJ ([personal profile] owlmoose) wrote2007-11-07 10:15 pm
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FFX-2 poll!

I've been thinking about doing something like this for awhile, and finishing the replay gives me the perfect excuse. One of the downsides of FFX-2 is that so much of the best content is buried, easy to skip in your rush to hit all the hotspots (and I would just like to reiterate my best advice on this: if you're playing FFX-2 to get as much story as possible, save the hotspots for last whenever you can), and I've often wondered what the implications of that are, in terms of what people know. So, to that end: a poll!


[Poll #1084965]


Very interested to see how this comes out! I do, however, request that you not flame the game in comments -- flawed or no, I happen to be very fond of it, so if anyone comes out with the burning hatred we aren't going to get very far in discussion. Thanks.

[identity profile] owlmoose.livejournal.com 2007-11-09 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I didn't use a guide my first time through and only got 70-something. In some ways the game rewards typical gamer behavior (persistence with the commspheres), but in others you have to go against the grain (not visiting places in order -- if you go in order in Chapter 3, and to a lesser extent in Ch. 2, you get screwed out of whole chunks of story). I wonder whether an RPG can be non-linear and present the player enough choices without taking that risk.