GAME · 2001
Final Fantasy X
- Developer
- Square
- Publisher
- Square
- Platforms
- PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3
- Original title
- Fainaru fantajî X
37 archived facts 5 topics 1 source Last reviewed Sep 2026
10 Facts From the Development of Final Fantasy X
- #001
Development of Final Fantasy X began in 1999 and cost approximately ¥4 billion, equivalent to about $32.3 million at the time, with a crew of more than 100 people, most of whom had worked on earlier games in the series.
- #002
Executive producer Hironobu Sakaguchi said that while he had concerns about the shift from 2D to 3D backgrounds, the voice acting and the move to real-time story-telling, the Final Fantasy series' success can be attributed to constantly challenging the development team to try new things.
- #003
Yoshinori Kitase served as producer and chief director of Final Fantasy X, while direction of events, maps and battles was divided among Motomu Toriyama, Takayoshi Nakazato and Toshiro Tsuchida respectively.
- #004
Writing the script for Final Fantasy X took three to four months, followed by an equal period for voice recording; Tetsuya Nomura and Kazushige Nojima worked with Daisuke Watanabe, Toriyama and Kitase on the scenario, and Nojima shaped the story so that the player's growing knowledge of the world is reflected in Tidus' own understanding and narration.
- #005
The story of 17 SEVEN TEEN, the early working title of Final Fantasy X, centered on a protagonist resembling Tidus who searched the world for a cure to a pandemic that killed people at the age of seventeen.
- #015
Final Fantasy X was first centered on the relationship between Tidus and Yuna, and Jecht's character and his feud with his son were added later in development to give more focus to the father and son's impact on Spira's history than to the romantic couple.
- #016
Kitase considered the story between Tidus and Jecht more moving than the story between Tidus and Yuna in Final Fantasy X.
- #022
According to Nojima, adding voice acting to Final Fantasy X let him convey emotion more strongly than before, which allowed him to keep the storyline simple.
- #023
Nojima stated that the presence of voice actors in Final Fantasy X prompted him to revise the script so that the characters matched the personalities of the actors portraying them.
- #026
Final Fantasy X was initially planned to include online elements delivered through Square's PlayOnline service, but these features were removed during production. Online play did not enter the series until Final Fantasy XI.
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