Your Overall Impression of Tidus

[Jiro]

I mean, it fits the character and he develops well but holy smurf can you really just walk around being such a dick? Try sitting and being introspective to figure out this new world instead of troutting all over everything xD

He is a famous teenager, after all.

We've all seen what Justin Bieber has become...

That's a fair point, though not one I'm happy about. These asshole kids with gigantic egos, they make me angry!

[Omni-Odin]

Hey I know it's been a while since this thread has been posted on, but anyone think Johnny Manziel (if you live in America and like sports) has been kind of what you'd imagine Tidus to be like before he left for Spira? I think it's a good comparison.

[SCZhuge13]

Tidus definitely comes off as somewhat annoying to begin with but that's intended, if not also thematically honest. He's a 17-year-old sports star famous throughout his utopia world. Outside of his daddy issues? He's on top of life! I mean, just look at his interaction with the two girls at the start of the game. It's a quick read into Tidus's mindset and worldview. Everything's right there.

Then he's thrown into a completely unfamiliar world where death is everywhere and he doesn't know a thing about the people, the society, politics...anything. So he reacts the only way he knows how: he asks the awkward/dumb questions, he challenges the status quo ("Why does everyone accept death so easily?") and tries to help where he can, though obviously it comes off as blunt and somewhat obvious/impolite at times. Because it is. How are you going to ask "What's a Sending?" and not implicitly offend literally everyone there?

Then Tidus starts realizing that this new world is a very real place that he's going to have to deal with for awhile and where the people have to deal with the reality of death on a day to day basis. And on top of that? He starts falling in love with a girl whose own background seems to imply a connection back to Zanarkand (Jecht and the stories she knows from him). Between the reality check he experiences by way of Spira itself and his coming to care for a girl on what's essentially a death march, Tidus grows up. He changes.

And I for one can't really find this "magic 180 moment" that people are talking about where he "suddenly" switches from the arrogant/idiot sports star to the mature, selfelsss hero. I watched the entire game via the "Watch FFX as a movie!" videos on youtube three weeks ago and, again, I couldn't see it.

What I did see is an arrogant young man slowly realize he can't go home ("That's up to Jecht") and accept he's going to have to deal. And when he does, he starts changing ("We gotta help the Chocobos! It's the right thing to do."), though in my opinion he really started changing when he got talking to Yuna on the boat - his embarassment at her watching him demonstrate the Jecht Shot shows that he's starting to care what other people think of him, even if it is by way of a boyhood crush.

So yeah. Tidus is supposed to come off as annoying to start with. If he wasn't, the character growth he experiences over the course of the entire game wouldn't count for anything, nor would the reverse-sacrifice plot that happens at the end of the game (if he was still the annoying idiot there wouldn't be gravity to his loss. And yet there is). So if you still think he's annoying or is a bad character by the end of FF X then I think you and I played two different games.

Add my vote to the "Positive" side!

[Ayen]

I didn't mind him as much as other people did. He's the fish out of water, eyes on the outside looking in along with the player. I can appreciate his role in the game and the plots around him. At most he provoked the occasional facepalm and made me feel embarrassed for the group. But nothing to make me dislike or hate him.

[Elskidor]

I found him annoying.

It's that simple for me too. My overall view on FFX has actually gotten much better over the years, and I actually like the game a heck of a lot better than I did when it was released, but Tidus is still annoying as ever. Changing the voice actor would probably help a ton, but he's just written as a very annoying kid.

[Electroshock Therapy]

I like that he was unlikable. Not a bad person, just whiney and completely out of his element. Over the course the game, he grows up. I think it made his story all the more rewarding.

[Rocket Edge]

I liked his character. His voice I didn't find annoying either at all.

[black orb]

Annoying, immature, self-absorbed, whiny, and with stupid clothes.

>>> That, and a blitzball player.. All that is exactly what make him great in my book..