bartholen said:
I'm quite sick of this notion that Tidus is some big momma's boy, so lets break down your argument.
Come on, it's an FF game ... everyone looks like a fucking ding bat.
Well, no ... he's a dream.
Who does he think he is? A really famous sports star, which he is accustomed to being. That is his great strength, he is new to this world and sees the flaws in how everything is, the flaws that everybody else accepts as being true ... like the use of machina is what makes sin respawn. You could just have one person turn from following the rules to going "fuck this shit" or have one of Rikku's clan turn things upside down, it had to be an out sider.
How many times have we seen "go on without me, I'll hold them back" but half the time one guy says "no, I'm staying and fighting"?
You always play the hero that gets the girl in games. Is there even one game where you play the side kick?
It had to be a superstar for the arrogance factor, "I can do what I want" attitude that you complained about before.
I think Rikku's overdrive is one of the most damaging, not sure though. I also believe you can only get certain items by using steal.
People only like Auron 'cos he is the resident badass, I think he the most boring character. He only exists to be the replacement daddy and teach Tidus who his dad really was. It nice to play a game where you aren't the most badass person, if you want that play the 1,000 of other games that let you do that.
Yuna is just naive, innocent and nicey nice. It is kind of annoying.
Again, everybody dresses weird in FF.
If you think about what happened to Tidus you would see that he isn't whiny at all, if anything he doesn't whine enough. Come on, he gets ripped from his life as a super star, gets washed up on a beach and told "you will never see your old life again", falls in love with Yuna, soon after you realize that by killing sin she also dies, Yuna is then forced to marry your enemy, you then make your way to your old home city and find it has been destroyed for at least 1,000 years (everybody you knew is dead), then to top it off you are then told you aren't real and when you finish your mission you will cease to exist, leaving your love behind
All the while you learn to love and understand the dad you start out hating and just when you accept him and what he did, you are forced to kill him to end the suffering of an entire people. Also the entire people of Spira hate you for going against there well established religion and helping the Al Bhed who are seen to be the ones to bring sin.
Tidus just goes against the grain of being like Marcus pheonix or that guy from uncharted or solid snake or the million other grizzled hero's, with brown hair.