Star Player of the Zanarkand Abes

[MJN SEIFER]

Because they couldn't decide how to pronounce it. The kids got it wrong on Destiny Island.

I agree.

Tie, as in clothing, not tea, as in drink.

Belive it or not "Tee-dus is a lot closer to the correct pronanciation than "Tie-dus". The correct pronounciation is actually "Tee-dah", I realize that doesn't make sense, but Japanese is not English, so pronounciations are different. In Kingdom of Hearts he is called "Tee-dus" because Square knew that we wouldn't get "Tee-Dah", it is the same as making "Cefca" "Kefka" in FFVI - in English phonetics "Cefca" would have a different pronouncation to "Kefka"...

[Vermachtnis]

But it's spelled Tidus. If they wanted it pronounced a certain way, they should spell it that way. Like you said, English and Japanese are different. Tidus does not equal Teda. Same thing with another certain spelling of a character. I don't really care if it is closer to the original spelling over there, we are over here.

[Jessweeee♪]

Tidus

[MJN SEIFER]

But it's spelled Tidus. If they wanted it pronounced a certain way, they should spell it that way. Like you said, English and Japanese are different. Tidus does not equal Teda. Same thing with another certain spelling of a character. I don't really care if it is closer to the original spelling over there, we are over here.

To be perfectly honest I often readed as "Tie-dus" despite it being wrong. In actual fact there are few FF names I pronounce wrong automatically through habit; Tidus ("Tee-dus"), Chocobo ("Chock-a-bo") Midgar ("Mid-Jar" for some strange reason even though that can't possibly be right) and Seifer ("See-Fer") to name a few. All of these are wrong, but I still read them that way, strange really.

[Darkswordofchaos]

But it's spelled Tidus. If they wanted it pronounced a certain way, they should spell it that way. Like you said, English and Japanese are different. Tidus does not equal Teda. Same thing with another certain spelling of a character. I don't really care if it is closer to the original spelling over there, we are over here.

To be perfectly honest I often readed as "Tie-dus" despite it being wrong. In actual fact there are few FF names I pronounce wrong automatically through habit; Chocobo ("Chock-a-bo") All of these are wrong, but I still read them that way, strange really.

Thats they way i read it for chocobos for a long time. Until they started voice acting it i never knew any diffrent

[Lacarus]

Tidus

Man, that guy's a whimp.

[Heath]

I must say, that when I was replaying Final Fantasy X recently, it did bug me a bit that some of the dialogue felt a bit clunky because Tidus' name is never spoken. It would've been quite nice, I suppose if there'd been the option for the dialogue to include the name 'Tidus' if you had kept his name as the default. Or just not let you rename him?

[Rantz]

They should implement some advanced speech synthesis to allow you to rename all your characters while still letting their names be spoken in dialogue.

Edit: What links

[Lacarus]

Those links doesn't work.

[Rantz]

Ack! Well, they were the results of putting some names into this. I'm not telling what name that last one was, though.