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La légende Final Fantasy
La Leyenda Final Fantasy X - Creación - Universo - Claves
La muerte le aguarda al final de su peregrinaje.
Pero ella nunca pierde su radiante sonrisa.
En las manos de esta invocadora, víctima de un engaño eterno,
Está el destino de todo un planeta.
Un lugar de encuentro entre generaciones de jugadores.
Un punto de inflexión en la saga Final Fantasy.
Un episodio que llega directo al corazón.
Revive su historia.
Conoce sus secretos.
Descubre sus claves.
Pero ella nunca pierde su radiante sonrisa.
En las manos de esta invocadora, víctima de un engaño eterno,
Está el destino de todo un planeta.
Un lugar de encuentro entre generaciones de jugadores.
Un punto de inflexión en la saga Final Fantasy.
Un episodio que llega directo al corazón.
Revive su historia.
Conoce sus secretos.
Descubre sus claves.
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First published July 11, 2014
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February 7, 2019
Para nosotros, Final Fantasy X es inmensamente especial, nos trae recuerdos preciosos y, por muchísimos motivos, es nuestro videojuego favorito. La lectura de este libro ha sido un viaje por un universo que conocemos a la perfección, ya que hemos jugado más de cinco veces a esta décima entrega, pero igualmente le hemos sacado el máximo partido porque hay pequeños detalles que desconocíamos y revivirlo ha sido una experiencia de lo más gratificante.
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February 9, 2022
Como siempre me pasa con los libros de esta colección, descubro mucho más de los videojuegos de lo que cabría esperar. Además, este no se flipa tanto, como pasaba con algunos anteriores. Muy recomendables una vez jugados recientemente.
May 4, 2024
Someone else said this was childish, and I couldn't agree more. It feels like it was written by someone who was disappointed it wasn't the same as previous games, and never got over it. This was SO close to a DNF for me. I hit 75% ish and only pushed through for the part about the music (which wasn't worth it).
SO. The good. The synopsis of the games is great. The breakdown of development, the world and the characters, great. There's a section that talks about novels released in Japan that I didn't know existed, so reading those synopsis', while absolutely terrible sounding novels, was enlightening. That's literally all the good I can say.
Excuse my possibly slight rant from this point on, but I could no disagree more with this person's opinions on the game, or how they chose to express it. The repetition of phrases was insane and very boring. The only reason it wasn't overpowering boring is cause the topics of opinion were all over the place. Not to mention the opinion portion of this book is 70% comparison instead of talking about FFX. Like I genuinely forgot I was reading a book about FFX at more than one point, cause the writer would go on a tangent about FFXIII so often and so deeply. And not even just FFXIII, the writer compares FFX, an early PS2, early 2000 title, regularly to PS3 and later 2000 titles, which frankly is just an unfair comparison.
My biggest issue is this entire opinion piece is just shitting on X and X-2 both. Extremely. Needlessly. Aggressively. Not only do I not agree with many of their opinions (which is fine, that's how opinions work and not at all why I was upset by it), but the way that they are displayed is borderline disrespectful and very pushy. Especially with X-2. X-2 is not my favourite game, not even close, but it does not deserve the shit this person gives it. They constantly talk about it being bad cause it changed things (even though multiple times it says "FF is about changing things up!") and it fucked with a game that was fine on its own. Goes on about how the feel is different and it's happier and and and like the world didn't fundamentally change at the end of FFX. Somehow, in all the lore this person wrote, they still missed the point completely. And none of the opinions about X-2 were even varied. It was just "it's not X and it made westerners feel weird and excluded" (which, at least in the people I know, it didn't at all).
Anyways, TLDR this feels like it was written by someone who really loved old FF games and gold salty when they included voice acting cause it didn't match their internal image. I'd hate to hear what this person has to say about the FFVII remakes.
ALSO this person used schizophrenia, a fucking medical condition that is NOT a fucking joke, to describe an aspect of the games. Not only did it not make sense, that's just fucking insensitive and ableist as shit. Disgusting behavior, frankly. If you can't find a better description than a serious medical condition to describe something, you shouldn't be writing published books. Whoever proof read this is just as much at fault. This book was released in 2023. Fucking do better.
SO. The good. The synopsis of the games is great. The breakdown of development, the world and the characters, great. There's a section that talks about novels released in Japan that I didn't know existed, so reading those synopsis', while absolutely terrible sounding novels, was enlightening. That's literally all the good I can say.
Excuse my possibly slight rant from this point on, but I could no disagree more with this person's opinions on the game, or how they chose to express it. The repetition of phrases was insane and very boring. The only reason it wasn't overpowering boring is cause the topics of opinion were all over the place. Not to mention the opinion portion of this book is 70% comparison instead of talking about FFX. Like I genuinely forgot I was reading a book about FFX at more than one point, cause the writer would go on a tangent about FFXIII so often and so deeply. And not even just FFXIII, the writer compares FFX, an early PS2, early 2000 title, regularly to PS3 and later 2000 titles, which frankly is just an unfair comparison.
My biggest issue is this entire opinion piece is just shitting on X and X-2 both. Extremely. Needlessly. Aggressively. Not only do I not agree with many of their opinions (which is fine, that's how opinions work and not at all why I was upset by it), but the way that they are displayed is borderline disrespectful and very pushy. Especially with X-2. X-2 is not my favourite game, not even close, but it does not deserve the shit this person gives it. They constantly talk about it being bad cause it changed things (even though multiple times it says "FF is about changing things up!") and it fucked with a game that was fine on its own. Goes on about how the feel is different and it's happier and and and like the world didn't fundamentally change at the end of FFX. Somehow, in all the lore this person wrote, they still missed the point completely. And none of the opinions about X-2 were even varied. It was just "it's not X and it made westerners feel weird and excluded" (which, at least in the people I know, it didn't at all).
Anyways, TLDR this feels like it was written by someone who really loved old FF games and gold salty when they included voice acting cause it didn't match their internal image. I'd hate to hear what this person has to say about the FFVII remakes.
ALSO this person used schizophrenia, a fucking medical condition that is NOT a fucking joke, to describe an aspect of the games. Not only did it not make sense, that's just fucking insensitive and ableist as shit. Disgusting behavior, frankly. If you can't find a better description than a serious medical condition to describe something, you shouldn't be writing published books. Whoever proof read this is just as much at fault. This book was released in 2023. Fucking do better.
December 27, 2019
Final Fantasy X es uno de mis videojuegos favoritos, y el primero de los FF que jugué. Hace un par de años lo empecé otra vez (la versión HD para PS4) y, pese al miedo inicial de haber endulzado mis recuerdos tras tantos años, confirmo que sigue manteniendo su lugar en el podio. Así que, lógicamente, no podía decir que no a un libro sobre él (y sobre la infame segunda parte, Final Fantasy X-2, que intenté jugar en su día y que me hizo sentirme muy incómoda, por mucha Koda Kumi que incluyese).
La verdad es que no siento una especial predilección por los títulos de esta editorial. En este caso, el autor ya deja claro al inicio que se trata de una obra homenaje, y para mi sorpresa ha resultado ser bastante equilibrada. El libro empieza con una descripción lineal de la historia de Spira (solo esta parte ya se lleva 80 páginas de las 216 del libro) y sigue con un repaso a la geografía y los personajes. El tercer capítulo, de análisis y valoraciones, se centra básicamente en la importancia de la muerte, la religión y las relaciones paternofiliales. El cuarto capítulo habla del proceso de creación de ambos videojuegos; este tema es quizá el que más interesante me resulta, por lo que se me antoja corto y superficial, pese a que incluye información que desconocía (por ejemplo, la existencia de un libro de estilo al parecer bastante infame). El quinto capítulo, más que hablar de «secretos», contextualiza la obra con respecto no solo a la tecnología sino también a títulos anteriores y posteriores. El sexto y último capítulo se centra en la música (¿quién no se emociona con To Zanarkand?).
Como viene siendo habitual en los títulos de esta editorial, no hay ni una sola imagen de los videojuegos o de los diseños de los personajes en todo el libro (imagino que por temas de derechos). Quizá en este caso la carencia no me ha molestado tanto porque tengo FF X bastante fresco y FF X-2 es un título que, sinceramente, me da bastante igual, pero es un detalle que necesito mencionar.
Por lo demás, me ha parecido un libro correcto, con información interesante y bien expuesta (pese a que el autor repite la misma información en distintas partes del libro, cada vez como si fuese la primera). Imagino que quien ya haya leído guías, foros y noticias sobre los dos juegos ya conocerán la mayoría de los datos, pero no es mi caso, así que tener un libro al que acudir para consultarlos es más que interesante.
En resumen, recomendaría este libro a cualquier fan de FF X (y de FF X-2, ¡si los hay!), pero no a quien espere encontrar la historia detallada de la creación de estos dos videojuegos. Como decía más arriba, se trata de un homenaje y como tal debe ser leído.
La verdad es que no siento una especial predilección por los títulos de esta editorial. En este caso, el autor ya deja claro al inicio que se trata de una obra homenaje, y para mi sorpresa ha resultado ser bastante equilibrada. El libro empieza con una descripción lineal de la historia de Spira (solo esta parte ya se lleva 80 páginas de las 216 del libro) y sigue con un repaso a la geografía y los personajes. El tercer capítulo, de análisis y valoraciones, se centra básicamente en la importancia de la muerte, la religión y las relaciones paternofiliales. El cuarto capítulo habla del proceso de creación de ambos videojuegos; este tema es quizá el que más interesante me resulta, por lo que se me antoja corto y superficial, pese a que incluye información que desconocía (por ejemplo, la existencia de un libro de estilo al parecer bastante infame). El quinto capítulo, más que hablar de «secretos», contextualiza la obra con respecto no solo a la tecnología sino también a títulos anteriores y posteriores. El sexto y último capítulo se centra en la música (¿quién no se emociona con To Zanarkand?).
Como viene siendo habitual en los títulos de esta editorial, no hay ni una sola imagen de los videojuegos o de los diseños de los personajes en todo el libro (imagino que por temas de derechos). Quizá en este caso la carencia no me ha molestado tanto porque tengo FF X bastante fresco y FF X-2 es un título que, sinceramente, me da bastante igual, pero es un detalle que necesito mencionar.
Por lo demás, me ha parecido un libro correcto, con información interesante y bien expuesta (pese a que el autor repite la misma información en distintas partes del libro, cada vez como si fuese la primera). Imagino que quien ya haya leído guías, foros y noticias sobre los dos juegos ya conocerán la mayoría de los datos, pero no es mi caso, así que tener un libro al que acudir para consultarlos es más que interesante.
En resumen, recomendaría este libro a cualquier fan de FF X (y de FF X-2, ¡si los hay!), pero no a quien espere encontrar la historia detallada de la creación de estos dos videojuegos. Como decía más arriba, se trata de un homenaje y como tal debe ser leído.
January 23, 2023
This book did a beautiful job of encompassing everything that involves Final Fantasy X. I enjoyed reading a book that discussed my favorite video game- especially a video game that came out over 20 years ago!!!
In my opinion I felt that the first half of the book was a lot more interesting that the second half. The first half goes through the story of Final Fantasy X and it’s sequel FFX-2. I felt there could of been more specific and in-depth details about topics like fiends, items, abilities, aeons, weapons, magic, etc. The second half was slower and not as interesting as I felt it was more opinion based.
In my opinion I felt that the first half of the book was a lot more interesting that the second half. The first half goes through the story of Final Fantasy X and it’s sequel FFX-2. I felt there could of been more specific and in-depth details about topics like fiends, items, abilities, aeons, weapons, magic, etc. The second half was slower and not as interesting as I felt it was more opinion based.
August 30, 2024
It's a solid read, both for fans of the game and for perhaps fans of the series who skipped this title.
I think the target audience for this monograph is somewhere between high school and undergraduate. It "covers" plenty of material, and offers some analysis of the game's story and design, but doesn't delve too deeply in a single direction. I think this was the right call, but for an older teacher at a graduate level, I was hoping for a more intense academic emphasis.
Even if I didn't necessarily agree with some of the author's opinions concerning the legacy of the game and the strangeness of Square Enix's first "sequel" in FFX-2, I appreciated the conflict described. It proves FFX was a transitional game to the modern Final Fantasies we see today. If anything, the book unconsciously teaches us about the ballooning budgets and development time that other JRPG series like Persona have been able to sidestep due to clever decisions in design and knowing what corners to cut.
Like I said, I think this is an effective analysis for "most" players. If you want something more academic, you'll need to look elsewhere.
I think the target audience for this monograph is somewhere between high school and undergraduate. It "covers" plenty of material, and offers some analysis of the game's story and design, but doesn't delve too deeply in a single direction. I think this was the right call, but for an older teacher at a graduate level, I was hoping for a more intense academic emphasis.
Even if I didn't necessarily agree with some of the author's opinions concerning the legacy of the game and the strangeness of Square Enix's first "sequel" in FFX-2, I appreciated the conflict described. It proves FFX was a transitional game to the modern Final Fantasies we see today. If anything, the book unconsciously teaches us about the ballooning budgets and development time that other JRPG series like Persona have been able to sidestep due to clever decisions in design and knowing what corners to cut.
Like I said, I think this is an effective analysis for "most" players. If you want something more academic, you'll need to look elsewhere.
February 15, 2024
"Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow!"
May 22, 2019
Si disfrutaste este juego disfrutarás este libro. Habla de final fantasy X, X-2 y su continuación en forma de novela y audio. Completamente recomendable
October 26, 2019
The informations are very interesting but the writing is child-like.
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