Ups and downs of FFX

[Sephiroth]

I am covering both parts.

Good: Touching story and the world actually lives which is pretty ironic. It has a very good score in my opinion. If you ask me the story of X-2 is even more touching with Shuyin and Lenne.

Bad: The villain is not [Sin] as [Sin] is nothing but a shell, the host is the Fayth which definitely does not want to destroy and Sin only follows an order that the Fayth cannot always resist. Yevon=Ju/Yu-Yevon is merely a leftover of a summoner that hardly reflects any evil mind with an evil masterplan. It is more like the fragment of a program. The order of Yevon is as much of a side villain as all those "company/empire/government" villains but in direct comparison to other worlds, no matter how often people debate this; Seymour is the main villain/the one who comes the closest to the main villain. He is active as a single character very early, something that counts for all main villains, even those whose body is only seen way later, he has his villanious theme-variety, he got the spotlight character-wise how he is and why he is like that (something that is not the case for every main villain but recently the Final Fantasy villains are mor defined than those who are much older) and his goal "the better for the world" includes something negative for everyone while he has no intention to let go of it. He continously reappears in the story and shows his influence, being in a political way or just because of his power in terms of "offensive power". He is way more focussed on as a character than Yevon=Ju or the order of Yevon ever is - not that you can really speak of the order as one character because it isn't. Yevon is constantly shown to do bad things for people, also for a long time but that is also the case for the Empire or ShinRa or anything and neither Gestahl, nor Rufus were the main villains. Seymour goes his way, trying to use all the power he has to reach his goal even if it means that he has to involve others like Yuna to get what he wants and he has first the goal of becoming [Sin] by becoming a Fayth to learn to control himself completely and destroy the world then and later when he fails he still tries to do it a different way by entering [Sin] and intending to control him even without becoming a Final Aeon. Now the only wasted moment for Seymour is that he has had no place in the final battle but still he was included in the dungeon because of his permanent presence in the story and his relevance. I understand that the whole Jecht story was important but Seymour afterwards still could have appeared. He was just too present in the story and predicted to be bad by Tidus and everything to deserve what he got. And if Will is the prelude to a sequel I would not be surprised to see him included. One of his themes directly before the souls and [Sin] appear being played just seems very suspicious.

Shuyin and Lenne were not clearly defined in their existence the way they were shown. Lenne was actually Lenne as it was her consciousness but Shuyin was just described to be "a shadow"; the emotions of the true Shuyin that began to react and live on his own. That means pretty much a clone with the original feelings of Shuyin. That would not mean anything for the real Shuyin's soul however, except it is meant, as it were the original Shuyin's original feelings, that his soul can also find peace. That was not defined well enough but it is actually the only thing that makes sense because bringing peace to a shadow clone that has been created through the real emotions getting their own consciousness while the original Shuyin itself still does not rest peacefully is no good for the story at all. This is the only thing making sense but I wish it would have been implied to be like that and not only left over to be thought about like "well, this guy is not the one but what is with the other one - he must be involved as he can't just be written like he would never find his peace". I mean Lenne's consciousness still existed and spirits can still continue to exist in the living world so it could also have been the real Shuyin's consciousness that animated everything but for that Bahamut was too focussed on saying "he is a shadow the real Shuyin is dead" which is troublesome.
I like sidequests very much but this is just too packed in those chapters. I would like most of them to be either in the last chapter or at least not being missable.

Will is not good for me the way it is now. That should be continued.