The guitar parts, yeah. Have to love when the song is used in contrast with Auron's taciturn presence in the opening. The vocalist, obviously, employs a method that most of us would hesitate to denote as "singing", but his influence is all but absent in-game. ^_^Originally Posted by The White Wizard of Fynn
As per usual, I have no idea whether you are being facetious or not.Assuming you are, I will state simply that you are wrong, and out of the benevolence of my spirit, I have undertaken the sizable task of purging your sin.
Your gratitude is not yet expected, but it will be required sooner or later.
Assuming you are not, then I will refer you to our past discussions on the subject of Uematsu vs. Mitsuda -- not only our numerous disagreements therein, but our tendency to mock one another regarding same. Granted, I got things going in this most recent bout with the whole "song sucks and blows simultaneously" thing, but your "ignorant fool" rejoinder seemed to indicate that you were on board, as well.
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Just read the Tidus General Rebuttal; interesting reading, Captain. It has been long enough since my one and only play-through that plot details like Tidus' supposed knowledge of his impending death are good and forgotten, but I went with it. I disliked the character, myself (Auron was about the only "intriguing" character by the end, and Seymour become only less interesting as time passed), but not necessarily for the reasons tackled in your essay. You do make a solid, well-reasoned case against the unthinking hatred granted Tidus by quite a number of fans, though.
Minus aesthetic stuff like the voice and character design, my major issues with the character emanated from his overall naiveté -- the way the plot was contrived to set him up as the starkest example of optimistic idealism in a world mostly populated by grimmer people and realities, and have his simple little mind be a source of inspiration for others.
Overall (to disagree with your general thesis) I found Tidus to be far too normal to be respectable. His hatred of his father, and his unthinking (and from what I remember unexamined) compulsion to assist him in spite of it, because that is our culture's moral expectation of a son. His childish feud with Seymour, fueled more by infatuated jealousy than any higher opposition (he hates Seymour without the compassion you attribute to him, primarily because he screwed with Tidus' little romance). His ability to "get by" in the plot without seeking any particular knowledge; he has "high ideals", and supposedly that is enough to see him past his trials. All of these indicate an average character, endeavoring to find goodness in a bizarre predicament and return home to normalcy, operating only on his pre-existing understanding of things to do it. If Tidus were ever called upon to think or grow beyond his roles of being "homesick", "lovesick", and "forever the optimist", he would probably not remain the same man. <_< If, for instance, Tidus was pitted against an antagonist who questioned and dissected his identity and simple motives (like Sephiroth to Cloud), Tidus, as we know him, would probably crumble. He has no particular reasons for his actions, minus having a love-hate relationship with life that predisposes him to act on passionate instinct. As it was, Seymour was far too in love with his misery and bared chest to pay any attention to Tidus, but still.
I found myself liking Tidus' soliloquies (what with the more refined voice, and the suggestion of deep reflection), but little else, I'm afraid. And that FMV with Yuna and Tidus frolicking beneath the water was just embarrassing to witness.
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