FFX SPOILERS!Gizmo1990 said:I love FFX with every fiber of my being so you are not alone in liking Tidus and Yuna. Fuck the haters man. Tho I have no idea what you mean by a bittersweet ending. Whenever I play FF X as soon as I am finished I will watch the secret ending of X-2. What can I say, I love happy endings.remnant_phoenix said:I'll probably get crap this for this, but I dig Tidus and Yuna's romance arc in Final Fantasy X. Regardless of one's feelings on that game series, that entry in particular, or either of those characters in particular, I assert that the romance sub-plot just works well. It's believable. It's not at all perfect-storybook-romance like you often see in video games. It's not the emotionally-detached-dude being brought out of his shell by manic-pixie-dream-girl that infects western cinema, anime/manga, and Final Fantasy VIII. It has interesting twists and misdirection. And it has an effecting, bittersweet end.
I also have a soft spot for Zidane and Garnet but then FF IX is one of my favorite games of all time so I am a little bised.
I live in a perceived reality where X-2 doesn't exist. In my mind, the story ends when the credits of FFX roll. It's bittersweet because the big bad is defeated and world is saved, but it came at the cost of Auron, who had no place in the new world, and Tidus, who resolved to find a way to save Yuna's life, ended up having to give up his own...sort of. That's bittersweet and powerful.
I'm not a FFX-2 hater. I played it. I got the 100% and the perfect endings. I mostly enjoyed the game. And seeing a happy ending for Tidus and Yuna was nice. In hindsight though, I prefer to think of FFX as standing alone. I think that that makes the story better.