Author Topic: !OUTDATED INFORMATION! -- The Novella: Final Fantasy X-2.5 ~Eternal Cost~  (Read 110790 times)

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Re: The Novella: Final Fantasy X-2.5 ~Eternal Cost~
« Reply #315 on: March 31, 2014, 12:06:33 pm »
You know what? That's exactly what I thought the audio drama would be, too. (Dammit, I forgot about the Moonflow. Y U NO remember, Nojima? ;_;) Just a sweet, short little story detailing everybody's lives in the Eternal Calm. It would have made a nice and humble little addition for the saga's 10th anniversary. Heck, when the game was released, they had promotional events and posters for Tidus and Yuna as a couple! And near its release in the US, they had the balls to make Valentine's Day trailers for FFX/X-2, despite them clearly knowing what BS they made Tidus and Yuna go through in the new content. That's just... foul, Square. It's the very definition of sugarcoating.

Eternal Calm? More like Eternal CHAOS! Har har.

So... damn. This is like, anti-fanservice. Instead of Sir Tidus being welcomed home, everybody's like 'GTFO you're not one of us!'. All of his friends don't seem to care for him. His personality's almost been completely butchered by pseudo-edgy 'dialogue'. He dies AGAIN, and only after a few days of getting revived. His current state is pretty much a zombie with slightly muffed emotions. Meanwhile, Yuna goes through 'Drastic Character Change 2: Electric Boogaloo,' and once again resorts to cryptic lies. Seemingly forgetting that the whole reason she was married by a dead half-Guado insane Maester was because she lied to/hid Jyscal's sphere from her guardians.

The sad thing is, we're really not kidding when we say that fanfiction has done better follow-ups than this. This is just... sinful. (geddit harhar-/shot)

EDIT: Holy crap, you know what I just realised? The last line that Tidus speaks at the end of the Good Ending is 'I wanna hear everything!'. Before all this came out, many people speculated that all of X-2 was a flashback, and Yuna's narration segments are her telling the events to Tidus after he came back, much like how most of X is a flashback, with Tidus' narration segments telling everybody his point of view of the pilgrimage. This CLEARLY doesn't match up with X-2.5. Instead, Yuna goes off and does her own thing, leaving Rikku and Paine to make sure Tidus is up to date with everything that went on. And it couldn't have been Yuna just talking to herself to keep her company. Her story clearly began with, 'It all started when I saw this sphere of you,' and even directly refers to Tidus by pronoun a few times.

lul, nearly all of the canon's been fired out of a cannon and into a fire, apparently.
« Last Edit: March 31, 2014, 12:44:06 pm by CrystalOfLies »
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