You get two full RPGs in one package, both using turn-based battles and a web-shaped board called the Sphere Grid to slowly grow your characters' stats and abilities. The first tells a sorrowful story about a pilgrimage across a tropical world, while the sequel is lighter and lets you switch outfits mid-battle for different skills. Between the two games you are looking at a large amount of content, so it rewards patience over quick play sessions.
Gameplay video
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Screenshots & review notes
Overall
Two very different games bundled together make for tremendous value, even though X-2's tonal whiplash from its predecessor still catches new players off guard.
Moment to moment
The Sphere Grid gives deep, satisfying control over growth, while X-2's dressphere job system offers a faster, more experimental combat rhythm by comparison.
Art and atmosphere
Spira's tropical vistas and Blitzball spectacle hold up beautifully in HD, and the voice acting, dated as some of it is, still carries real emotional weight.
Worth your time?
A fantastic value pack for JRPG fans wanting two distinct experiences in one. X-2's peppier tone won't be for everyone coming straight from X's tragedy.
Frames captured from the gameplay video above; notes are our own take on the game.
What it's like to play
You control Tidus, a young athlete pulled into an unfamiliar world and swept up in Yuna's pilgrimage to defeat a recurring monstrous threat, and battles use a turn-based system that shows you the order upcoming turns will happen in, letting you plan around swapping characters in and out mid-fight to counter specific enemy strengths without losing your own turn. A sphere grid, a large branching board of nodes, lets you spend points earned from battle to move your characters along paths that grant new stats and abilities, giving you visible, satisfying control over how each character grows over time. Exploring towns and areas mixes simple field navigation with occasional side activities, including an underwater soccer-like sport that longtime fans still argue about the merits of.
This package also includes a full sequel following Yuna two years later on a much lighter, more upbeat mission-based adventure, where she and two companions can freely switch between different job-like outfits called dresspheres mid-battle using a faster, more real-time feeling combat system than the first game's more measured pace. Between the two games and their added international content, including a tough post-game mode built like a series of escalating single-elimination floors, there are dozens of hours of content here, with a combined playthrough easily running past sixty or seventy hours for players who explore both games fully. The tonal gap between the two games is considerable, one an emotional, tragic pilgrimage story and the other a much breezier adventure, and that shift alone shapes how each one lands with you.
Both games are visual upscales of releases originally built for older hardware, and some character faces and animations look noticeably dated even with the cleanup work done here. If the tonal whiplash between the two stories bothers you, that is a fair thing to expect going in, though the sequel's combat system is genuinely excellent on its own terms. As a package offering two complete, mechanically strong turn-based RPGs for one price, this remains one of the better value packages available on Switch.