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is it bad that i liked X-2 more than X?

Nope! I like both games (I do prefer X) but X-2 was just absolutely adorable and loads of fun. Especially with all the camp! :D

All I know is I am going to have an aneurism over the chocobo balloon race of X. Please tell me X-2 isn't as ZOMG RAGE WHAT inducing. :(

X-2 is rage inducing in its own ways.

Especially how you have to do all sorts of extremely specific things that the game will not ever tell you to avoid missing things and to try to avoid the dreaded Episode Concluded.

Yes, I got an Episode Concluded because I didn't look to the left at one point in the fucking hot springs part.

You serious? Because I was kicking around the idea of playing X-2 (played it maybe an hour?) and I did hear something about multiple endings and getting a 100% on the game?

Yeah, there's stuff like if you don't touch a moogle hiding huddled behind a bunch of crates during a sequence you won't get 100% completion and the technical best ending.

Not to mention even after you get 100% completion and do all of that crap if you don't hit X and the specific point in the Farplane (that it gives you no prompts whatsoever for) you still won't get the 100% Perfect Ending.

I always figured the lull in the sequence was the prompt. I remember nothing happening long enough that I was like "what the shit, game" and just started pressing buttons to see if there was something in the area that needed to be interacted with.

Although yeah, it goes on eventually even if you don't press X so it's not the best way to determine what ending should occur.

Don't forget about how you can't skip any cutscenes, as doing so means that cutscene doesn't count towards your 100%.

The saving grace is that X-2 has new game+ because unless you have a 100% accurate guide and are following it to the letter, you will not get 100% + good endings for the episodes on your first playthrough guaranteed. X-2 is full of so many missables and catching them all by yourself is impossible. The game lets you stack percentage so on subsequent playthroughs, (like, making different choices in the game will give you some bonus percentage points) even if you still don't do everything, it'll add up and help you.

X-2 was designed to be played multiple times to get the best ending, but the problem is that to encourage you to play multiple times, it throws in bullshit like "if you don't take a nap at this specific time, and there is no indication that you should take a nap at all, you just screwed yourself over."

I'm pretty sure it would be pretty impossible to get 100% regardless of the amount of playthroughs if you didn't have a guide, there's just so much missable junk like that.

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