I don’t want to risk slotting into the hole of “the
Final Fantasy guy”, because that’s a
hard hole to escape from. Also, I’m
seriously not equipped for it; I haven’t even played half of the main games in
the franchise, after all. Even then, you
could still argue that I haven’t played that many -- depending on how you feel
about some of the modern installments, i.e. entries in the so-called Lightning
Saga and Final Fantasy Type-0. Still, a franchise as famous as Final Fantasy can bore a squishy nook
into any gamer’s brain. As parasitic
worms would. Probably.
In any case, my backlog reaches into the heavens,
and one of those games happens to be Final
Fantasy 10. Granted I’d already
finished it at least once before, but I thought I’d have a look at it to see
how it held up. That’s becoming an
increasingly-lower priority, since the Best Friends Zaibatsu started an LP of
the game; naturally, I’ve been following it as closely as I can. They’re playing through it so I don’t have
to. And as a result, I’ve come to a
shocking conclusion.
I think I like Tidus. I think I like Tidus now more than I ever did
-- and he’s at risk of becoming my favorite Final
Fantasy lead.