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Let's revisit Final Fantasy X! Anyone?

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Games remember who we were when we played them. Leigh Alexander revisits Final Fantasy X -- and puzzles over the lost heyday of big Japanese roleplaying games.

Site iconGame Developer — June 25, 2014

The same game can affect players wildly differently depending where they are in their own life when they play it. For all its flaws, and whether or not you think it holds up today, Final Fantasy X matters a lot to people like me who played it and loved it in our late adolescence. In this wonderful, personal, heartbreaking piece, Leigh Alexander explains why.

Tags: Shared Link, CREATOR: Leigh Alexander, GAME: Final Fantasy X, TOPIC: Storytelling

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