10 WORST Mini Games Absolutely Crucial To Complete The Game

2. Blitzball - Final Fantasy X

Final Fantasy X Blitzball
Square Enix

Is there any Square Enix mini-game more widely complained about than Final Fantasy X's dubiously iconic underwater sport Blitzball?

Though there's mercifully only one mandatory Blitzball game in the entire story and you don't need to win it, that doesn't change the fact that the oddball sport is a lot less fun to play than it might at first seem.

Between the somewhat esoteric, convoluted rules and sheer time-consuming nature of playing a game - not to mention how dubiously it's tied to Final Fantasy X's actual story - Square Enix took an underwater football-basketball hybrid and somehow made it weirdly dull.

Perhaps were it played out in real-time rather than being painstakingly turn-based, it wouldn't have made us all feel so drowsy and irritable.

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