I’ve never played a Final Fantasy game and decided to give the franchise a try. I’m starting with FFX.
Tidus is fucking hilarious. I can’t tell if he just had ten thousand concussions playing underwater soccer or if he’s autistic or if he’s just nuts but this kid is in the top 10 characters of all time.
In the first hour or so of the game his home city, Zanarkand, is destroyed and he is rescued by some scuba divers and learns he was thrown 1,000 years into the future. One of the first things he learns is to not tell people he is from Zanarkand. Five minutes later he meets some beach bros and tells them he is from Zanarkand. He lost everyone he ever knew but people still play Blitzball in the future so he immediately joins a team. His has nightmares about his dad bullying him in front of girls. He immediately makes best friends with so far as I can tell, an elite bodyguard who kills monsters with his soccer ball. Sometimes he jogs in place because I guess he just needs to stim it out? He dresses like someone who graduated with honors from clown college. No one else in the past or in the present wears anything with as many zippers, charms, or different fabrics as this kid. His mood swings wildly, which isn’t great for him because he seems to have fallen for the most sacrificial lamb coded character I have ever seen.
This kid is fucking great. And I am so glad I am discovering him as an adult and not a teen, otherwise I would have found him insufferable.
