FFX-3 Chat

It makes me wonder if Nojima went on a fanfiction-binge before writing this novella. I've read fanfiction that have the exact same set-ups as this, with either Yuna ignoring Tidus or Tidus sucking at blitzball because he was in an underwater coma for two years. In fact, I think Tidus was still doing stuff in the Farplane during X-2, like at the end of Chapter 3 when you whistle in the Farplane to summon him. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Nojima became a closeted Tidus-hater after penning FFX and X-2. It would explain why he's just bombarding his character with tragedies, out-of-place dialogue and basically turned him into one big plot-device magnet. He's pretty much making Yuna look like a Mary Sue in comparison. At least in X-2.5, he got one good night with Yuna... before his life went to chaos.

And what's with this 'we're not making X-3' thing? Are we just meant to assume that Spira's screwed? Is Tidus going to resolve things with Yuna? Is Yuna gonna do the you-know-what with Kurgum and make Tidus into a serial killer? We need closure on this thing! You know Nojima, if you wanted a positive fan response, you shouldn't have thrown all of these Twilight Zone-like twists and plots into it. If you weren't sure that you were gonna continue it, you should have ended the drama on an ambiguous note instead of an inevitable foreboding atmosphere. You said that the novella and drama were to say that Sin will always be a part of Spira, so the spiral essentially will never be broken no matter how hard people try? Gee, so much for X-2's ending. ._.

How about this for an audio drama: exploring our main character's lives after X-2, as well as watching Tidus and Yuna's growing romance. (GROWING romance. Not that pathetic cop-out Yuna had in X-2.5.) What if I had a plan for a sequel but I wasn't sure if it would work out? At the end, have somebody announce to the characters that something big is going on, and end it as soon as they have their first reactions. Leave it indistinguishable as a good thing or a bad thing, so I don't accidentally back-pedal on what was implied.

Yeesh, I'm sorry for the rant there.

Anyway, along with Grellotine trying to get her friend to translate some of the novel, I found another person on the Final Fantasy subreddit. He's fluent in Japanese, and while he doesn't have the book on hand, he probably asked some of his relatives in Japan to get it for him. Not all hope is lost yet, I think.