I haven't completed it yet, so I don't know for sure... does the naration (at the start of the game) actually happen in the middle of the game, or after the end? If it's after the end of the game, perhaps Tidus has grown up a lot more?

Otherwise, hmm... harder to explain...

Perhaps... perhaps he's less happy when thinking to himself? Perhaps he doesn't need to be so excited?

Perhaps he has had more time to consider things, so he can talk of them more evenly, and more fairly...

I'm kind've fed up with the "Tidus is a b****" threads... When you compare it to the actions of some earlier characters (for example Zell, my Avatar) is it really so bad?

Again, I think that Tidus was portrayed very well by his voice-actor. They all were. (Except maybe Auron... can anybody ever sound that cool?!)

Zild