Quote Originally Posted by LunarWeaver View Post

There is no time travel in FFX. Tidus did not got go through 1000 years like he thought. Memories of his real life? I'm afraid I don't understand that . He only has one life, and that's the one given to him by the sleeping summoner's making "Dream" Zanarkand. And of course he exists.
I know there is no real time traveling in FFX. Tidus' plot twist is the one that shows that it never happened, but for most of the game you thought he did . My problem is, since Tidus was created by the fayeth from their dream Zanarkand is he based on a real person? Or was he just an illusion within the dream. If he's an illusion he never really existed and that makes FFX-2 completely improbable. If he's a soul of the dead trapped in the dream, then how come "the sending" doesn't affect him? None of it was properly explained and it just led to confusion the more you think about it.

It also makes one wonder how Jecht (who's obviously in the same boat) can become an Aeon if he is just an illusion. Now I understand that most thing's in FF games are never really explained but even most of those unexplained elements have some level of logic behind it.

FFX's plot twist sorta've came out of left field. I felt it was done to not only write them out of their little corner, but to create a cheap emotional ending. I just never saw any point in it; and I felt if they wanted to do that kinda've ending, it could have been better written.

FFX's plot is always dogged for being too simple, yet nobody seems to understand it.
It is a simple storyline premise until Tidus' plot twist. Really for me, FFX failed as a story cause it was a character driven piece, written around a character that has no real emotion or personality, Yuna. She completely destroys the illusion of the adventure and the cast themselves are hindered by having to revolve their stories around her story. But this is an argument for another thread entirely so let's try to stay on topic a bit...

Do you all really hate the FFVIII memory thing that much =o! I thought it was kinda neat and tied well into the whole time thing...Like, destiny, you know? It was all their destiny from the start to grow up and travel through time to the showdown.
The major problem with FFVIII's story overall is that they tried to do so much and never really stopped to make it more cohesive. Part of this problem lies in the fact that most of FFVIII's plot is really about Squall learning to open up and love other people and himself. So it must have never seemed necessary to explain anything else that was going on. The actual storyline just comes off randomly and that was the straw that broke the camels back for most people.

Maybe I'm just too accepting of plot twists . If Star Ocean 3's whole...thing...doesn't bother me, then I doubt anything a Final Fantasy pulls is gonna.
I liked SOIII's plot twist, it sorta've sucked the drama out of it but it was starting to delve too much into territory that was better explored in Xenogears. I had been waiting for an RPG to do a plot twist like that for years so I was pretty happy.