Me actively building Lulu as a physical damage dealer bc having her doll run up to an enemy and one-shot it is hilarious: yes. Yes you can.

It makes me happy that in 2023 this game is still being played and new challenges are being created! This is my favorite final fantasy! I remember playing this on my ps2! Great times 🥰

20:42 later in the story, if you go back to Macalania Forest, you'll find 2 Guados. They'll tell how Seymour actually summoned the fiends into the arena and made Anima kill them, so he could gain the trust of the people of Spira. I'm looking forward to seeing how the rest of the story plays out!! Definitely will catch the next episodes! :D

The story 100% explains why there's fiends inside the water sphere during the first blitzball match. It's because Seymour guado, the reoccurring boss and political figure. It was all scheme just by him to make the people like him after he summons the creepy thing to save everyone.

I did this when I was a teenager, I made Yuna an immortal beast basically. The most worthy character to complete the Sphere Grid with. Auto-Life, OP Aeons who can also shield from ultimate, huge magical arsenal with boosted magic stats, Fully Powered Nirvanna Staff. Srsly Yuna is an absolute beast.

Honestly I'd argue that Tidus's daddy issues are the real main villain, but that's up to interpretation.

When "stay away from the summoner" becomes a warning for others instead of a threat xD

That kid living his best life having finally become an actual blitzball cracked me up big time 7:22 🤣

I normally send Yuna down the strength char routes, to make the aeons normal attacks hit like dump trucks, and just use Kamari as a white mage

“Normally you don’t use cheer in a normal play through” Me who’s used it in almost every fight: well duh who would do that?

See this actually reminds me of how I ended up making Khimari the Ultimate Badass, by making him migrate through the entire physical arc of the sphere grid. By the time I took on Sin he was strong enough to 1 shot EVERYTHING we encountered. On a side note, I really liked how the sphere grid's placement of people sort of matched up with their relationships. Tidus was adjacent to Auron and Yuna, the two people he had the closest bond to. Wakka was adjacent to Lulu, because they were lovers, Rikku was adjacent to Yuna, and Khimari was as well. So it kind of made the character progression, reflect the other character's influences on Tidus. Which I thought was a nice touch. You could of course derail that with jump spheres and friend spheres, etc, but if you were just following the trails as plotted out, it would sort of reflect the blending of influences on the character's most important to the person.

I love the premise of this video. I have played this game so many times that I had experimented with taking them into other grids. My favorite run was females only on tidus' grid. I had made a 'weapon' for lulu with stonestrike, Deathstroke, evade and counter, and magic counter. It was hilarious watching a little cactaur run up and hitting quad 9's, if she didn't outright kill them with stone/death.

One run, I got a rod with Stonetouch on it really early on, and Yuna used it to one shot an Ochu, and I was impressed.

Gotta show some love and appreciate for your editing and humour! I've seen and enjoy a lot of these different types of playthrough videos, but yours has given me the most laughter out of all of them which really helps me enjoy it that much more, the comments on the Luca Goers, Yuna running into a wall, and Auron and Lulu both having a go at Wakka, those moments had me in a chuckling fit. Subscribed and keen for more videos of this playthrough!

I‘m already hyped for the next part! I'm glad to see that so many people are still into FFX and the idea of switching the sphere grid paths seems like a very chaotic and twisty way of playing the game, keep going!

Great challenge run, I can't wait to see the next part. I really like how you include fights against the regular enemies too, some can be so troublesome to deal with.

I turned Wakka into my black mage, Kimahri into my tank, and Rikku into my white mage. It was a really fun run

Great idea! Im gonna try this but cheat some teleport spheres right at the beginning so everyone just gets to the new roles immediately.

I remember doing this as soon as I got the HD version. Didn't do the exact same swaps but something similar. It was a blast

This challenge is something I always wanted to do! Thank you for doing this

I loooooove this game so much - brilliant editing I laughed out loud 😂

getting this in my recommendations is really cool because i was recently actually considering a run with a similar spirit where the concept was "if you see another grid to go down, you have to go down it if you can at that point in the run". this is probably a more reasonable concept. hope it stays interesting later in the game and people don't overfit to their new roles!

Love to see this type of content, subbed. GL in the future brother

This is awesome, finally someone playing a cool expert sphere grid run

Really cool run. You have earned yourself a sub my friend. I am looking forward to seeing more of this.

You should have started the game with a 1 Teleport Sphere (with cheats or so) per character to actually swap their starting positions from the very beginning. But seeing it done in a clean vanilla run is also really neat to see. Great video.

Really interesting idea! Subscribed! Though it would be harder to set up and do, the only changes I would have made would be to not activate any spheres on the sphere grid until each character gets to their “starting point” on another’s grid. Also, not using any abilities they start out with (no Cure on Yuna or black magic on Lulu for example) to set each character more rigidly in their roles. I get why you didn’t do this (the grinding would have been nuts to set up), but might make for a “Hard Mode” version of this same challenge!

A tip for Blitzball. Manual, Left side, run into goal, pass once to not tidus to bait them away from goal, pass to tidus and get a 0person shoot on goal. It's not necessary to go through the extra hubbub.

i got so excited about this! I've been working on a playthrough where just yuna and tidus are swapped (they are on each other's sphere grids, everyone else is on their own). I'm at seymour natus right now and tidus' magic stat has only just passed yuna's :') this video was great, and the editing was hilarious! can't wait for the rest

I'm literally doing this right now. Made Rikku a debuff Monk tank.

Not to spoil the fun, but FF10 is kinda famous for having this progression system where at the end every character can have all stats maxed out at 255 and know every technique and magic spell. Everyone can have it 255 attack, magic, defense, magic defense, agility, evasion,.... You get the point. And everyone can learn everything on the grid from steal and use to zombie strike to holy to ultima. Meaning, the late game won't be a surprise and the early game will be whatever, because you don't have a lot of ability points for the grid yet. Or rather, can't farm a lot. The mid game would also be rather self-explanatory. Instead of Yuna doing white magic, it's going to be someone else. Instead of Tidus being the quick character, it's going to be someone else etc. Still, excited how you're going to go about it and who you're going to choose for what. Breaking through those level 2 and higher sphere locks is going to be interesting to see (when you do it and who you will prioritise and why).

Maybe because I'm way too familiarity with this game having made a challenge guide myself, but I think you are going easy on yourself. I'd say it could be done using a save editor and swapping character start positions. You are also allowing each player to revert to their initial job. That seems to take a lot of challenge out of it considering no sphere grid runs are relatively doable by this point. Maybe that's not so easy if your playing on console but I absolutely feel that these challenges are best when they force you to explore the mechanics. There are several tactics and abilities like power break, provoke, null magic that simplify fighting the bombs, mushrooms, fire element, and sin-spawn gui.

Actually There is an easily overseen moment explaining the Luca Fiends. When you're at Endgame & can visit Guadosalam + Macalania Woods, in an out of the way hole type of spot where you can talk to some still living Guado, with one admitting it was their fault

Nice challenge bro! Good work.

can we just take a moment to talk about how khimari is really the only well rounded character on the team. like yeah they all got their stories and all are justified in their way of being, but he is the only one who despite all of his shortcomings doesnt let his emotions control him

this is such a cool idea! also, I am just impressed with how much patience it takes

actively in the middle of my second run doing just this. It's very rewarding and Yuna into Auron makes CRAZY aeons.

I actually did something similar naturally on my first run. When I was a teenager I had a bad habit of skipping all tutorials so I didn’t even know the sphere grid existed, so I was at base level until the battle where Seymour fights alongside you😂 Took me at least 20 minutes to level everyone after looking up why all my characters suck so bad lol

Nice! Can't wait for part 2!

I am so in the mood to play FFX now....I agree with Anima, even her name....she is terrifying with the blood, the chains, the hands....like, in FFIX, Atomos scared me as he is just a massive gaping maw that eats everything! Even Ark kinds creeped me out. Man, the summoners in the games are scary!

OMY god I love this series gotta subscribe and share this to my friends! 😂💀 This is such an iconc challenge PURRRR slaayyyy anyways I'm invested in this challenge run! Lulu is the best!

I think, for a future attempt, you could start a save around Besaid, and just Fast Forward grind out spheres until everyone in the party at the moment is at their place, and then do the same thing for Auron and Rikku when they pop up. At a certain point you might have to ignore a lot of the level spheres you gain just to let Auron and Rikku play catch-up, but overall I think you should be fine. I'm not sure what the earliest times you can gain Teleport and Friend spheres, so those might be extremely helpful in getting those two where they need to go as fast as possible. At any rate, I really enjoyed this. :) Always fun to watch someone's attempts at something fresh in an old game.

Nice video looking forward to it. I did this in the hd version since if you use the expert grid all the characters pretty much start in the middle. btw it's hilarious when a high strength yuna runs up with her rod and bonks for max damage totally worth the hours of Juggernaut farming

Your commentary on the cutscenes is hilarious Yuna running away at 12:51 had me dead 💀

If anything it makes the game easier, pumping Yuna's strength makes the aeons ridiculously overpowered. She's always the first one I statmax because the stat boosts to the aeons are just so good! Edit: typed this before rule 2 lol, in that case with no summons, a bit harder but not much, the game is already pretty easy.

So my brain doesn't explode from explanation overdose: Yuna takes Auron's role (is going to be a beefy, ideally armor piercing fiend) Lulu takes Wakka's role (is going to be a strong, high acc status dealer) Wakka takes Lulu's role (is going to be a powerful black mage) Tidus takes Yuna's role (is going to be the white mage/healer) Kimahri takes Tidus's role (is going to be a quick hitting time warrior) Auron takes Rikku's role (is going to be a speedy thief with a lot of starting health) Rikku takes Kimahri's/floater role (as he states, red mage)

Bruh. You deserve a subscribe. Great montage i had a lot of fun and absurd amount of laughs which i have not expected xD

Okay you got my subcription, love your humor

honestly braver than the troops, I would've been grinding way more to achieve some sort of balance (or at least to get them into the starting positions early on)

The Blitzball Fish are a PR Stunt pulled by said villian, as their tribe is one that can mess with monsters. Also Anima is based around Sacrifice of the mother. (Mary, as tag around the neck has a picture.) It fits with Aeon Origin too, the chains. (Still demonic enough for an antagonist.)

This is how I play every time. Love building the weirdest party that goes against their original type.

You got a sub! I can’t wait for more!!!!

This editing is fantastic

I like this a lot. Very interesting and fun. Will watch a lot before bed every time. Good. 🎉

I really can't wait for the continuation and for you to do other RPG games challenges

Aeons stats are directly tied to Yuna's so making her a fighter is actually not that silly even in a normal playthrough. Ran that build in one of my playthrough and just made Kimarhi my Healer.

These editing skills are too notch.

I love to see artists’ renditions of the characters in their different roles

I love the image of Yuna wielding her staff like a greatsword like Auron and just sending monsters flying like a homerun.

I can't get over the "so smooth :O" 😭😭💀

Kimahri going into Tidus's spheregrid was my usual go to lol. Haste yourself for the Ronso battle, and drain all the overdrive abilities easily.

Challenge runs are great. Just did a no sphere grid run. Very fun.

@7:23 Freaking Hilarious. I laughed very hard and spilled chef boyardee all over my keyboard. Thats golden.

Amazingly well made video!

The joke with the kid being a blitzball is so stupid, but it made me laugh xDDD Why is that so funny?

I've done an all magic run of FFX. That was pretty fun 😅

Interesting spell ability for Rikku @ 6:46 mark

Well, since the kid became a blitzball like he wanted...I'm subbing that's hilarious 🤣

My favorite way to play is have everyone do rikkus sphere grid along with kimahri so everyone can steal and lancet

this is a bit late, but i just got this dialogue recently, i think its the campsite in macalania woods after you defeat yunalesca theres a guado there that gives insight into the fiends in the arena, apparently it was a ploy by seymore to show of anima.

This challenge reminds of when I got bored on my max sphere grid save file and decided to max out Lulu as well, 255 strength Lulu is kind of hilarious and sadly is probably also stronger then mage Lulu because of how weak magic becomes late game in FFX.

Great idea for a run!

@33:52 Initiative also has the effect of never being able to be ambushed, unless the enemy has First Strike. So very good Thief ability in my opinion!

I came for the idea and stayed for the memes 🤣

Actually, there is a part in machalania where some guados explain where the fiends in the stadium came from. They were summoned by the Guado for Seymour to summon Anima.

I've done it at least twice. Yuna with a melee job makes Bahamut's impulse break the whole game, so good call on banning summons :P

The Anima cutscene hits harder when you play a second time and know it's actually his mom

I tried this challenge too a long while ago on the steam version of FFX. what I did in order to make the opening "easier" was giving me teleport spheres and learn the throw gil command. so once I figured out who to send where, I used the teleport spheres, sold everything else Im not supposed to have (thank you steam version cheats) and then yeet all the Gil Im not supposed to have at the piranhas at the beginning :'D and then I went on my merry way. seeing Tidus heal like 150 HP was... disheartening XD

20:17 bahaha all the blitzballers started going in circles when you hid in the goal xD genius and dishonorable

I am enjoying the series so far.

20:40 the monsters were released on behalf of seymour by guado servants. after the music video you can speak to one or two guado who confess to the player.

Enjoyed this, thanks 👍

I'm on the floor laughing at 13:12. Sick roast. Thank you

I remember my run where I sent Tidus to Lulu's grid, Yuna to Auran's grid, and Rikku to Waka's grid. I dont have many regrets in life, but why did I choose to do that? No clue. the grinding to make them viable was pain.

Seymour releases the fiends at the Blitzball tournament so that he could look good in front of the whole nation when he fixed the problem. A true politician.

6:47 I had to rewind cuz I caught that last second and thought that I read it wrong 🤣

Considering the aeons' stats are determined by Yuna's stats, it would be interesting to see how making Yuna take another character's path affects the aeon stats. They should hit harder and have more HP but less magic with Yuna on Auron's path. I'm surprised you didn't prioritize getting Auron steal and use. You can make the game pretty easy with an early steal by getting silence grenades in mushroom rock before the sinspawn. Of course you've got a nice opportunity to get a bunch of petrify grenades before crossing the moonflow.

I had a glitch some time back where Yuna became equipped with the Masamune at one point and I'm not sure how, but she proceeded to be my primary physical damage dealer after that. I am definitely going to have to watch this.

I like when you talk about Teedus and Yuner’s heych P

I tried this once, but ended up unable to beat the Seymour fight in Bevelle. I needed Reflect, and Kimahri (my white mage) didn't have it yet, so Seymour just nuked me into oblivion... My changes were these: Tidus > Auron Yuna > Lulu Lulu > Wakka Wakka > Rikku Kimahri > Yuna Rikku > Tidus Auron > Kimahri (all-around, rotating between all the others)

Couldn't you use the other sphere grid system? I've never used it but can you just go anywhere?

Almost done the all spherier grid again 💪 don’t hesitate to have a look guys 🙏

When you showed the expert grid instead of the standard, my brain short circuited temporarily.

Mages in FF3 could equip weapons that petrified enemies so Wakka using the TKO makes perfect sense for this run with him being a mage this time.

It's swapping Yuna onto a STR-rich Sphere grid part that breaks summons due to how stat and damage calculation works. Back when I tried something like this, even without farming AP, Bahamut ended up one-shotting Seymour Natus and at most two-shotting every boss onwards.

To tell the difference, I name Tidus different things, but at least mine make sense. Like Tidal for example. And you should’ve done a newer save to avoid having started off then going back

21:40 Anima is heavily inspired by Roman Catholicism's Anima Sola, a depiction of a soul shackled and trapped in purgatory. Kind of an interesting contrast to the rest of Spira, which is an "East Punk" fusion of Southeast Asia and Nepal.

Kimahri, just keep doing your thing man

I really had to double take that “anal x” label to make sure I wasn’t loosing it 🤣

It looks like FFXED could be used to fix everyone's initial grid locations and unlocks (so you don't need the initial travel time across Khimarhi's zone)