#255 - Beyond Good & Evil (PS2)
Initially I have had bad memories of this game because I've encountered a game ending glitch which was the famous disappearing partner glitch. Beyond Good & Evil is unique. It has a vast number of gameplay elements (action, adventure, stealth) which are mostly well done although some of them are not (The Hovercraft's horrible controls). I don't know how a lot of people felt about the characters but I thought they were very well done (Double H is awesome). Each of them had a reason for being there and the game cuts right to the chase and is a unique and masterful experience. However the glitches in this game cannot be ignored, the puzzles are as obvious as one can get and the A.I comrades can tend to not follow your order sometimes (leading to game ending glitches a.k.a the disappearing partner), the difficulty is laughably easy and the hovercraft controls are horrible (Not to mention you spend quite a lot of time there). Anyways BG&E could have been a whole LOT better if the game breaking glitches weren't there, if it was a little longer, had more dungeons, and possibly a harder difficulty and YES! lesser time on the damn hovercraft.
#254 - Final Fantasy X-2 (PS2)
"And distance holding you... Suspended on silver wings" is the thing I remember about the game most. Which can't be good right? Wrong.
I don't consider X-2 as a part of the mainline FF series but I'm sure glad it isn't. Is it a worthy sequel to FFX? I'm gonna go with hell no and join the "X-2 should have never happened" bandwagon. FFX should have ended with FFX's ending that's it. I don't like most of the FF spin-off games out there cuz they usually suck so much, and I've played almost all of them. FFX-2 is one of the better spin-off games. There are many aspects of the game which I actually love yes 'love' and hate as well. Lets start with the things I dislike. X-2's story sucks almost as much as some of the NES RPGs. The main villain and his story could have been done a lot better but instead he's now my least favorite FF villain. The mission system is also something I truly detest (Oh I'm playing FF13 right now by the way and hate that system about FF13 as well). But what I love about this game is the Battle System. I don't care what ATB haters say but this is what should have been the future of the FF Battle System. The mini-games are addictive as hell, Blitzball is better than Blitzball in FFX, and the Job System isn't half bad (Yet hardly original). I don't like a lot of things about X-2 but then again there are also a lot of things I like about the game. But one thing is for sure, X-2 clearly deserves a spot here for some of the golden innovations it had.
#253 - Final Fantasy II (NES)
Ok FFII haters please stay away.
I love how Squaresoft had the courage to try something completely different even though the first was a worldwide super hit. FFII however received a lot of hate for the changes it brought along with it. The way stats increase in FFII and how magic and weapon level builds up is something completely unprecedented. It wasn't necessarily good because people could easily break the game from the beginning. Sure the stat increasing was weird but that doesn't stop the fact that FFII is a actually a good game underneath all that. The game is fun once you get used to the system but not enough for a mainline FF game making FFII easily my least favorite from the series.
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