Final Fantasy X (ファイナルファンタジーXFainaru Fantajī Ten) is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square as the tenth entry in the Final Fantasy series. Originally released in 2001 for Sony’s PlayStation 2, the game was re-released as Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita in 2013, for PlayStation 4 in 2015 and for Microsoft Windows in 2016. The game marks the Final Fantasy series transition from entirely pre-rendered backdrops to fully three-dimensional areas, and is also the first in the series to feature voice acting. Final Fantasy X replaces the Active Time Battle (ATB) system with the Conditional Turn-Based Battle (CTB) system, and uses a new leveling system called the Sphere Grid.
Like previous games in the series, Final Fantasy X is presented in a third-person perspective, with players directly navigating the main character, Tidus, around the world to interact with objects and people. Unlike previous games, however, the world and town maps have been fully integrated, with terrain outside of cities rendered to scale. As Tidus explores the world, he randomly encounters enemies. When an enemy is encountered, the environment switches to a turn-based battle area where characters and enemies await their turn to attack.
The gameplay of Final Fantasy X differs from that of previous Final Fantasy games in its lack of a top-down perspective world map. Earlier games featured a miniature representation of the expansive areas between towns and other distinct locations, used for long-distance traveling. In Final Fantasy X, almost all the locations are essentially continuous and never fade out to a world map. Regional connections are mostly linear, forming a single path through the game’s locations, though an airship becomes available late in the game, giving the player the ability to navigate Spira faster.
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| Developer(s) | Square Product Development Division 1 |
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| Director(s) | Yoshinori Kitase |
| Producer(s) | Yoshinori Kitase |
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| Series | Final Fantasy |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
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| Genre(s) | Role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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