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The Final Fantasy games have always looked beautiful and the remastered version of Final Ffantasy X is no exception, but does the gameplay hold up in 2017? Like most of the series, the story is pretty weird and convoluted. You play Tidus, a teenage blitzball star for the Zanarkand Aces. During a match, the city is attacked by a huge monster. You are sucked into a vortex and wake up in a world where people tell you Zanarkand has been destroyed for thousands of years. You meet a colourful group of characters and become a guardian to the summoner who is trying to save that world from Sin, the monster that you met at the start of the game. Along the way, you will fight a lot of battles in standard jrpg fashion. The spells, summons, actions and items will be familiar to those who have played earlier games in the series. One improvement is that you can swap characters in and out midbattle with no penalty- and you will want to do so as often as possible to keep everyone at a simila

I was a little sceptical about buying this at full price because I was unsure if there was enough change from the original to justify paying full price. Having spent a couple dozen hours on it since buying it on sale I am impressed. Like Endless legend, the factions feel a lot more unique than in other 4x games. They have not only different strengths and weaknesses which push you towards different victory conditions, but also have different gameplay mechanics. The Cravers get a massive production boost but deplete the resources of the planet so over time they become virtually useless. The Unfallen can only colonise planets which are part of an unbroken network of huge tentacles you try to spread across space. The Vodyani use the essence of souls as currency to produce arks which are required to be stationed in a system whereas Horatio are able to use influence to rush buildings and technology. Each faction comes with an intro video which gives you a glimpse into its history and motiv