Final Fantasy X was one of the first games I bought when I acquired a PS2. It was not the first time I played the game however. I got through almost half of it at my friend’s house who got both the game and a PS2 before me. Back in the day we used to hang out and not even play games together. She would either play stuff and I would watch, or vice versa. We only played co-op once with The Lords of the Rings: Return of the King movie tie-in game for the PS2. It was pretty fun despite us not being to complete it due to a bad bug. Weird gameplay situations aside, I was blown away for more reasons than I could count.

First of all the graphics were mind blowing. I went from polygons on the PS1 to more realistic models on the PS2. Plus voice acting was still fairly new at the time at least to the capacity found in Final Fantasy X. I could list more features like the story, astounding music, and more, but I digress. It’s a good game that has held up despite some flaws I’ve grown to see. The voice acting, while good, is not delivered well. There are long awkward pauses between sentences for example. There are more problems than that though that I only discovered while replaying through the game recently. Things that don’t really make sense that true fans like myself will get a kick out of.

24 My Old Man

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If you were to make a drinking game about Final Fantasy X and your goal was to go black, you’d want to base it around how many times Tidus talks about his dad. For that matter how many times he cries, Bonus points if he cries and talks about Jecht. He’s like a broken record and one of the reasons why he’s one of the worst characters in Final Fantasy history. It’s not like Tidus is wrong though. Jecht is a terrible father. He left his homeland to go to another world, abandoning both his wife and son. He’s then the ultimate boss of the game making it kind of a metaphor for Tidus to face his fears aka his father albeit in a more monstrous form.

23 Breathe Deep

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Blitzball is one of my favorite mini-games in all of Final Fantasy. In fact, I think I sunk more hours into it than the actual game. At first, it was to master the sport in order to get Wakka’s ultimate weapon, but after I mastered the mechanics, I just got addicted to playing. When the HD version was announced this was the first thing I got excited about.

It’s a depth-defying leap in logic.

I could play Blitzball on the go with my PS Vita? Awesome! That said the prospect of playing in the water has never crossed my mind as normal. Sure people can hold their breaths for long periods of time, but not when playing a rigorous sport. It doesn’t add up.

22 Catchin' Da Monstas Mon

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There’s a mini-game in the Calm Lands wherein an old man tasks your party with capturing various types of monsters. He will sell you equipment for each character that has a capture ability grafted onto it. In my mind, the only weapon that makes sense is Wakka’s Blitzball though. That’s what I’ve learned from Pokémon at least. My mind has been wired to think a ball is the perfect way to capture a monster. Of course, Blitzball’s don’t look like Pokéballs. Still, framed like this meme, it’s a pretty funny joke if I do say so myself. I mean how does it make sense for Auron or Tidus to catch a monster with a sword? You’re right, it doesn’t so let’s move this monster ranch along.

21 Mo Money Mo Problems

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Cryptocurreny is on the tip of everyone’s tongue nowadays. Bitcoin seemingly started as a joke, a currency for uber tech nerds, but now it’s become so popular that other versions of it have started creeping up. There are even video game cryptocurreny copycats. Crytek, who you may know from the Crysis series, made their own called Crycash. Even Atari is making some called Atari Tokens.

Look out for TidusBucks.

It’s an out of control fad that I’m sure is going to blow up in our faces eventually. Now as for Final Fantasy X, well, you can add any kind of text to this scene to make it funny, but I wanted to make a hot take on cryptocureny. Plus Tidus is dumb enough that I think he’d actually get into it.

20 A Whale Of A Tale

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It’s still hard to believe that the ultimate villain of Final Fantasy X is a whale. It’s also called Sin as an analogy to the people of the world committing sin by relying on machines. A little on the nose with the name don’t you think? I mean I get it. It’s a world where water is everywhere. What’s the biggest thing in an ocean? A whale. So for this planet, Spira, I guess it’s only natural to frame the God as a whale. It’s not like it’s a straight-up whale either. It has arms, kind of, and shoots creepy spores and monsters out of its body. Sin is not the only problem in regards to the game’s set of antagonists, but we’ll get to that later.

19 Leather In The Sun

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Why is Lulu wearing that? It’s not just an insanely designed dress, but there are practical reasons why she shouldn’t be wearing a dress made of belts, leather, and fur. She lives on Besaid, which is a tropical island. I imagine that has to be pretty hot for her. I mean how does she even get that thing off?

Does she have to unclasp every single belt in order to slip it off? There are a lot of bizarre outfits in Final Fantasy X, but Lulu’s takes the cake. Maybe her magic keeps her cool. I guess that’s plausible, but again, it’s pretty silly looking. One thing we can all agree on. The top of her dress is perfectly cut.

18 Feed Me Seymour

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After great villains like Kefka and Sephiroth appeared the others since then have tried to play catch up. None of the sorcerers, or sorceresses in Final Fantasy VIII are cool. I mean the final villain is named Ultimecia, which is a horrid name and too on the nose. Kuja is a more girly Sephiroth without the bite in Final Fantasy IX. Then we have the man of the hour, Seymour, from Final Fantasy X. While you could definitely tell he was scheming something behind the scenes, that name doesn’t exactly strike a chord of fear in the hearts of man. All I can really think of when I hear the name is Seymour is Rick Moranis from Little Shop of Horrors, which is a great movie by the way.

17 Thunderstruck

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One of the most annoying areas in the game is the Thunder Plains. The plains are dark and hard to see and lightning can strike at any minute, which forces players to keep on their toes. Getting hit isn’t the worst thing. Your party isn’t going to fall, or anything, but it is an annoying element when trying to cross this big area while dealing with random encounters too.

Here comes the thunder from down under.

The worst part of it is the side quest involving dodging two hundred bolts in a row just to get a piece for Lulu’s final weapon. If you get struck once, you have to start again. You can’t even save your progress. It’s all, or nothing baby. What a smart idea.

16 Under The Sea

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Tidus and Wakka appeared as young teenagers in the first Kingdom Hearts. Yuna, Rikku, and Paine showed up in the second as weird fairies alongside an awesome reimagining of Auron. Unsurprisingly he was found in the Underworld and made a deal with Hades. Of course, as a good guy, he tricks the hot head and goes along with Sora and the others to help out best he can instead. As the meme says, it’s almost the perfect place to put him in context to both Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy X. That’s not to say he’s a bad guy and should thus be sentenced to the bad version of the afterlife. It’s just that, well, Hades’ realm is the only afterlife present in the game so it’s the only place.

15 They Can Do Better...

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In Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Jar Jar Binks and his accompanying race of Gungans sound like a bunch of 1800s stereotypes. As if they weren’t annoying on their own they’re pretty awful too. In Final Fantasy X, the Hypello race share similar accents accept with a more squishy and slurred sound. They’re a little less offensive, but only marginally. So why do people keep making these characters. They hardly seem worth treading such a fine line to be worth including. It's pretty preplexing to say the least. Maybe one day we'll read the tell all book of Final Final and Star Wars, two series that just couldn't help themselves.

14 What A Twist

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Major spoilers for both The Sixth Sense and Final Fantasy X in case you missed roughly the past two decades. For those unaware The Sixth Sense is about a boy who can see the non-living and the big reveal at the end is Bruce Willis, his sort of psychiatrist, has been deceased the whole time. The same goes for Tidus in Final Fantasy X.

He was Bruce Willis the whole time.

For some reason, we’re supposed to believe he was a dream of the Faith and thus perished thousands of years ago when Sin attacked Zanarkand. It would be shocking if it didn’t riddle my brain with questions. Why did Yuna’s rituals never send him away to the afterlife? How could he eat? The questions go on. That’s why this meme is a perfect combo.

13 RPG Angels

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Final Fantasy X-2 is the closest thing we’re ever going to get to a Charlie’s Angels game. I guess I should clarify that and say a good Charlie’s Angels game since there are a few based on that property before this. For those unaware Charlie’s Angels was a show that ran in the 70s about three undercover women who went on missions to save the world for a mysterious voice known only as Charlie. They had a handler named Bosley, who gave them dossiers and gadgets. Bill Murray played him in the film adaption. That’s’ why he’s in this meme. Now I will say he was never the guy to say “good morning angels” but since there is no face to go with the voice, I just substituted Bill Murray instead. Savvy?

12 Brother From Another Mother

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I decided to bring Buster Bluth back for another Final Fantasy meme after I had so much fun with my mom joke from the Final Fantasy VII meme article. One of his other trademark catchphrases is saying “hey brother” to either Michael, or Gob. He also tried to massage their shoulders poorly when he said it.

Let me massage that back for you bro.

The airship pilot in Final Fantasy X, and Yuna’s cousin, is named Brother. Get it? I know it’s a very easy joke to make and not one that needs explaining unless you’re not familiar with either property. If that’s the case then why are you reading this? Anyway some of the best memes are the simplest so let’s just move on

11 There’s Always An Asterisk

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As I mentioned earlier Blitzball was the most excited thing I was looking forward to regarding the HD port. It’s not the only reason I was pumped to replay both games, but it was a major factor. Square Enix advertised that saves could be carried between both the PS3 and PS Vita versions of the game. However, the pricing for both systems was way off.

It was a rip-off I unhappily paid for.

There was no combo deal wherein you could buy both versions of the collection at a reduced price. They were each sold at full price making the whole thing cost about $100. Now you don’t need both copies obviously, but if you want to use cross-save you do obviously. Their messaging wasn’t very clear about it so that’s why it was upsetting.

10 Haha…

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If there were ever a poster child for a meme regarding Final Fantasy X it would revolve around the infamous laughing scene. You know the one. Yuna is sad and doesn’t know how to process grief so Tidus teachers her to laugh her troubles away albeit in the dumbest way possible. It’s a cringe-worthy moment, but it’s not the actors’ fault. I think it was supposed to be hokey to play up the cuteness of it all.

And we laughed…

It probably wasn't received the way the director wanted. What’s my proof? Oh I don’t know. Maybe it’s the fact that YouTube is flooded with videos about it, or maybe that someone made a mod that replaced all sound with modified versions of Tidus’ laugh. See for yourself. I rest my case.

9 A Fashion Disaster

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Lulu’s dress, as I said before, is the worst thing in the game in terms of badly designed clothes. Runner-up is Tidus with, well, just about everything on his body, but especially the pants. He wears a half jacket, with no shirt, leather overalls on top of that, and an insane armlet on his left arm. On his lower half, he has a matching pair of leather shorts that look similar to his vest with his right side being longer than his left. Underneath it looks like his has some form of blue, shiny boxers. What better way to make fun of him than by pairing Tidus with a SpongeBob meme? He’s also a water-based character and has oddly shaped pants. You know what they say. When the bad pants fit, meme it.

8 An Oldie But A Goodie

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If there was ever a reason to include a Vegeta meme in regards to a Final Fantasy game, it would be this one. Final Fantasy X was the first in the series to include a finishing move called Overkill. If a player should do more than enough damage to finish off an enemy then it would trigger Overkill as you can see above. If you do manage to trigger it your party will be rewarded with extra experience, or in this case, it was called AP. The max one could do was 9999, but there were abilities for weapons that could break that barrier. History aside this meme is old as heck, but one cannot help but love the classics. Just imagine the damage Vegeta could wreak in the game.

7 Shelbyville Cousins

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Yuna’s uncle, Cid, has two kids: Rikku and Brother. Now that is a first cousin status not some weird twice removed kind of hullabaloo. So it’s even creepier knowing that when you think about how obsessed Brother is with Yuna. He is constantly swooning over her and or pretending to be injured or in danger so Yuna will fawn over him. I get that she’s attractive, but dude, come.

Get over it Brother.

She’s you cousin! This would have been a great opportunity to include an Arrested Development joke. Why? Well, George Michael is equally as love crazed about his cousin Maeby. George Michael goes so far as to get involved with a film called Les Cousins Dangereux, which are about two cousins in a forbidden relationship. I bet Brother would enjoy that too.

6 Casting Couch

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Remember when I talked about playing Final Fantasy X for the first time at my friend’s house. Well I can thank her for another memory that has never left my head. She used to talk about how Auron and Al Pacino look alike. To be specific she said his portrayal in The Godfather III was the look she imagined him closest to and I agree. He was young enough back then to still look good as an older man in the film. Could he still play him now as an actual old man? Probably not. He’s gone a little off the deep end too, but that’s okay. He’s served his time to us as an entertainer and deserves some peace and quiet. Let’s also forgive him for Jack and Jill.

5 Wait, Where Are We?

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As I sat by my desk trying to drum up ideas for jokes and or topics I started flipping through some of my screenshots from Final Fantasy X. I stopped on Anima and my jaw dropped. I never noticed it before, but that necklace around its neck looks a lot like Jesus. Could it be a coincidence as is actually one of the chosen summoners people worship?

I free myself of all Sin.

Perhaps, but it could also be an artist trying to sneak in some more Christian symbolism. This isn’t the only piece of evidence of that. Whenever Auron used a spell it looked like he was making the sign of the cross. That’s something I caught even as a kid. Just what exactly is going on here?