But see, that's just it. What kind of writer comes in, 10 years later after the fact, and adds in things that disrupt canon? It's extremely lazy writing and I feel, a huge disservice to the fans??? For those of us who are huge fans, we have been operating on assumptions that come from the canon endings of X-2. And then this novel and audio drama completely disregard those endings, throw them away, and even ignore certain canon facts???
Like, for example, the audio drama says the last shoopuf was at the Moonflow and it went extinct. But.... in Final Fantasy X-2, we see several shoopufs. Clearly, there was more than one shoopuf, and the writers of the audio drama just... ignore that fact. So, what they said in the audio drama is blatantly untrue. It's just little things like that that bother me. Because it feels like they were too lazy to give us an ending that actually made sense with canon. There are fanfiction writers who pay more attention to maintaining canon then the writers of the novel and audio drama did... and that's sad. This is a hobby for us, not our job. We shouldn't know more about the game than you! So, it makes me sad because it makes me feel like they just didn't care enough... in that case, why did they make it then?
Oh, right, because it was a desperate money ploy. A way of testing the waters for a X-3... which they then decided not to make because reviews for the novel and audio drama were so poor. Sooooo, now, we, the fans, are stuck with the last canon thing we know about FFX being that Sin has returned. And that's a ridiculous way to end a beloved series. And it's all because their attempts to squeeze money out of us for X-3 backfired because they chose not to take the time to write an actual good story, therefore no-one wants to buy a follow up game for a crappy story. >.< The whole situation just makes me mad :c It feels like we fans got royally shafted because of their storytelling incompetence... we're left with this incomplete (and frankly, not very good) plotline as the final chapter of our favorite character's story. And that's... so unfair.