Finished Final Fantasy X. Ending not so epic...

[Heath]

The Yu Yevon battle wasn't amazing, though it did have good music. I quite liked that idea that you had to take on and defeat (SPOILER)all the Aeons to remove them. Not difficult, but in terms of the overall story I quite liked it. Also nice as one last hurrah for the Aeons that have been with you through your adventure.

[-kuri-]

Give it a chance, -kuri-. I disliked it but that doesn't mean everybody will. It's impossible to tell what you'll think of it!

Haha perhaps. The story and the look of the game is not appealing to me...but i could give it a try. Why not? At the most, I'd only have a few days wasted on the game....or weeks.

Oh yeah, Heath reminded me of something. (SPOILER)When i was fighing the aeons, I didn't realize that I got auto life for the battle so when Ixion used his overdrive on me, I almost tossed the controller and told the game to go to hell. >.<

[Vice Nebulosa]

(SPOILER)The Yu Yevon fight? Fully concurred with the thread originator. Anticlimactic junk. The "Otherworld" battle is so designed to create the impression that it is "do or die"; that the chaos ends on the same note upon which it began (namely the violent riffs of "Otherworld"). If used, this arrangement would suggest a well-rounded plot construction that possesses things like stylistic parallels and (though this is rather a stretch) profound, hidden meanings. Like Tidus in general, the final battle butchers this potential right around the "embryo" state of things.

Following the fight with (SPOILER)Jecht, it simply became a game for me; how long will the plot keep limping on? (SPOILER)Auron's dramatic departure was about the only highlight, if memory serves.

Also, I liked the final battle, if only for the music (the piano version is just plain awesome).

Here we are again, Wizard. Song blows and sucks simultaneously, which should give you some idea of the physics-defying godawful-ness the plunky little track epitomizes.

[Fynn]

Also, I liked the final battle, if only for the music (the piano version is just plain awesome).

Here we are again, Wizard. Song blows and sucks simultaneously, which should give you some idea of the physics-defying godawful-ness the plunky little track epitomizes.

You just showed what an ignorant fool you are. You simply cannot see good modern piano music when you see it. My twelve years of musical education tell me this is a masterpiece. End of story. Not another word from you now!

[Vice Nebulosa]

You just showed what an ignorant fool you are. You simply cannot see good modern piano music when you see it. My twelve years of musical education tell me this is a masterpiece. End of story. Not another word from you now!

The story is not "over" until your opponents are discredited and forced into obscurity and all potential threats among your supporters are killed.

And somehow I doubt that you command Stalin's guts.

Intricate and off-the-wall though it may be, the song (and its dumb-ass setting ) has nowhere near the dramatic thrust of the rearrangement of "Otherworld", and entirely screws any possibility of plot symmetry. Feel the wrath of Trotsky -- this time equipped with a helmet and a better retreat than Mexico! ^_^

[Fynn]

I feel it contains a lot more emotion than 'Otherworld', although that is an awesome piece of music. Anyway, I don't like you being all "MY OPINION IS LAW!". I mean, sheeh, I like the music, you don't, but you don't have to tell me I'm wrong because you think it sucks :rolleyes2

[Captain Maxx Power]

Tidus was a whiny %^$#. I can't get the obnoxious "I WANT FOOD!" out of my head

Read this.

Now cavort through the flowers with kittens and sparrows and enjoy the loveliness that is life.

[Mirage]

Good points, max.

[Vice Nebulosa]

I feel it contains a lot more emotion than 'Otherworld', although that is an awesome piece of music.

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. ^_^

Anyway, I don't like you being all "MY OPINION IS LAW!". I mean, sheeh, I like the music, you don't, but you don't have to tell me I'm wrong because you think it sucks :rolleyes2

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. All in good fun, and I have repeated time without measure my belief that judgments regarding the quality of music are subjective and entirely individual. I am really not ragging on your taste in any decisive way; just anticipating our inevitable disagreement on an unresolvable issue and teasingly goading you thereto, is all.

EDIT:

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.

[Fynn]

You all seem to misunderstand - I like Tidus! It's just that I like Zidane a lot better. I know Tidus has matured a lot during the course of Final Fantasy X. It's just disagreed with Kyros, because I think Zidane is a much better character, nowhere near as annoying as Tidus at certain points.

[Kyros]

You all seem to misunderstand - I like Tidus! It's just that I like Zidane a lot better. I know Tidus has matured a lot during the course of Final Fantasy X. It's just disagreed with Kiros, because I think Zidane is a much better character, nowhere near as annoying as Tidus at certain points.

See check that out, even a FFVIII character agrees that Tidus is better than Zidane so why couldnt they have gotten rid of the right one?

[Fynn]

Damn you

[malkyah]

There was nothing wrong with the ending, I thought it was quite recreational in all due respect. I didn't see anything that would have it lose credability for being a good ending.

[ANGRYWOLF]

Poll of the Day - GameFAQs

I guess some people liked it.\\

[Skyblade]

One thing I don't get about the ending: Why did they have to put down the Aeons? I never understood this. They summon an Aeon, Yu Yevon possesses it and starts to turn it into a new Sin, using it to shield himself while he continues the summoning of Dream Zanarkand. But, if they hadn't summoned the Aeons, he would have had nowhere to hide. They could have skipped straight to the last battle with Yu Yevon.

I understand if they are doing it to let the Fayth rest (although, really guys, if you're not willing to be used as a conduit for kickass magical creatures for all of time, don't sign up for the duty in the first place! We shouldn't have to lose the Aeons just because you guys get sick of it), but it seemed to actually be part of their plan to stop Yu Yevon, and from that point of view, it makes no sense at all.