Final Fantasy X: Your views

Final Fantasy is set to go online this year

Final Fantasy is the world's most popular computer game series and the 10th instalment has now been released.

Its players are transported into a time-travelling adventure in which they are a sporting hero, searching for the cause of their father's mysterious disappearance years earlier.

"For fans of the series, and they are legion, this will undoubtedly be another successful instalment but Final Fantasy novices may find it a little underwhelming," wrote BBC News Online's Darren Waters.

But what do you think?

Is the series past its sell-by-date? Or is this still up with the best of them?

On a few points, Final Fantasy X may be easy to criticise: derivative, unoriginal and linear gameplay problems do arise.

But these pale in comparison when the game is considered as a whole. With superb graphics that succeed in depicting facial expression and body language, music that underlines the plot as effectively as some of the finest film scores and a grand-scale, emotive plot that is almost operatic in scale: FFX is a unique experience, especially on what many still think is a kids' toy.

Games like this and Metal Gear Solid 2 blur the lines between film and game so well that you forget all notion of genre and merely enjoy being entertained. And whilst we may look back at it through retro-tinted virtual reality spectacles in years to come, it is one of the few instances where the phrase "interactive entertainment" is not an oxymoron.
Keith, Edinburgh, Scotland

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