
(To be fair, I also feel conflicted about paying $49.99 for an 18-year-old game that I’ve played before.)īut when it went on sale during the last holiday season, I had a beer or two and clicked the “Buy Now” button.

My reverence for it and nostalgia for those late nights with my first 3D JRPG had almost certainly glossed over the game’s shortcomings, right? I’d be frustrated with the clunky battle system and dated graphics, right? Right? I loved Final Fantasy X, but I was worried that returning to it after almost two decades would ruin it for me. On my Playstation 2, I spent countless hours journeying around Spira, leveling up my party, and fighting off hordes of fiends.īut when the Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster bundle finally appeared on the Nintendo Switch in April 2019, I held back. Even with today’s fantastically detailed titles, those video game moments are still few and far between. It was one of those awe-inspiring video game moments: Wow… I can’t believe what I’m seeing.

The first time I saw Yuna summon her flying aeon Valefor, I was absolutely amazed. I vividly remember playing Final Fantasy X for the first time in 2001 on my Playstation 2.

How does it hold up, and is Final Fantasy X the best Final Fantasy game on the Nintendo Switch? I had to find out. Note: These games are HUGE! So although Final Fantasy X: Eternal Calm, Final Fantasy X-2, and Final Fantasy X-2: Last Mission are included in the bundle, we’ll be mainly focusing on the original JRPG, Final Fantasy X.Īlmost 20 years after the initial release of Final Fantasy X on the Playstation 2, we took this old Chocobo for a ride.
