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Take a deep breath.
Square Enix has released Final Fantasy X-2.5, a novel fitting ambiguously into the timeline of Final Fantasy X and X-2, to coincide with the release of the HD remaster. Worrying is the presence of a cliffhanger ending, indicating the possibility of a Final Fantasy X-3; maddening is the novel’s content.
Spoilers follow.
According to various reports compiled by a few sources, the novel’s plot follows protagonists Tidus and Yuna two days after Tidus’ resurrection. Tidus is a little out of it for obvious reasons, but this apparently angers Yuna and they have fallen out of love. The two are shipwrecked on an island, and following an argument, Tidus goes to kick a blitzball found on the beach in anger. This blitzball turns out to be a bomb, and Tidus blows up.
Yeah.
Reports are a little messy from here on out, but the rundown seems to be that Yuna revives him, as Tidus is now made up of pyreflies and she has control over them. Reviving an unsent causes issues with the Farplane, and so basically everyone comes back to life, Sin included.
I don’t know, man.
Specific details will be firmed up over time, but the book’s Amazon page is currently flooded with angry one-star reviews as outraged fans voice their displeasure with the product. Setting aside the pointless, manufactured drama brought about by mutilating a core character relationship and the assault on series lore and canon (let’s not even get started on how little sense a revived Sin makes), other issues revolve around the book’s uncomfortably morbid, gruesome, and sexual content.
Some reports are coming in that Tidus’ death is accompanied by details of his dismembered head flying at Yuna, for example, and out-of-place sexual innuendos abound. Murmurs of the latter range from Tidus commenting that he won’t be able to focus on battle due to Yuna’s “sexiness,” to rumors of a necrophilic scene in which Yuna has sex with Tidus (who, at this point, should be dead) in order to revive the Fayth.
The nitty-gritty details can only be pieced together through corroboration at this point for those of us unable to read the book, but enough can be seen at this point that what has happened here is… not too good. Worse still, the book is actually written by Kazushige Nojima, who penned Final Fantasy X itself. It is startling and perplexing, then, that this is where he would choose to take the universe and characters.
I have canceled my pre-order for the X/X-2 HD release at this point. We vote with our wallets, and it’s not hard to imagine that sales will dictate whether or not X-3 is viable.
If you’ll excuse me, I think I have a headache.
Comments
10 years, 10 months ago
If there was ever a better example of corporate personhood, I haven't seen it. Clearly Squeenix has become old, senile, and demented.
10 years, 10 months ago
The funny thing is that the people who complain about the book are probably the same people who write slash fiction about Tidus getting a taste of Cloud's buster sword. Uncomfortably morbid content sounds wonderful. Let Yuna have sex with Tidus corpse all she want. No one actually liked him anyways right? Nothing of any significant value was lost imo. I rather see this then just another FF game. Go nuts. But in the end, yeah it will probably suck no matter what..
10 years, 10 months ago
Sorry... what???? The fuck is square enix thinking?!?!?!?!?!!?!?
10 years, 10 months ago
Well, Tidus IS stupid enough to mistake a bomb for a blitzball.
10 years, 10 months ago
Is it so hard for people not to buy games they don't like? For me there was final fantasy 10 and that's it then I moved on to the next numbered title.
10 years, 10 months ago
Necrophilia, you say? Hmm...
10 years, 10 months ago
I can not compute this.
My brain has been broken.
May God have mercy on our souls for Square Enix will have none.
10 years, 10 months ago
I really wanted this to be a joke or just an attempt at trolling but it looks like it's real. I'm just at a loss for words at this point. What the fuck.
10 years, 10 months ago
WAIT BUT WHAT ABOUT FFX-2 LAST MISSION WHERE IT WAS LIKE A COUPLE OF MONTHS AFTER THE ENDING OF X-2 AND YUNA WAS LIKE "YAH TIDUS AND I ARE TIGHT, YO."
This isn't real. This is too stupid to be real.
10 years, 10 months ago
As if the plot to FFX wasn't stupid and horrible enough...though I'm still wanting to buy the HD remakes since I've been wanting to try the games out.
10 years, 10 months ago
-laughs the tidus laugh-
10 years, 10 months ago
HA
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10 years, 10 months ago
Then Yuna meets her TRUE love: Sonic the Hedgehog.
10 years, 10 months ago
http://www.p4rgaming.com/square-enix-accidentally-publishes-fanfiction-for-the-final-fantasy-x-2-5-novel/
It was a fan version made up that was accidentally put up for print. It explains on this page if you consider reading it that is.
10 years, 10 months ago
This looks a type of trolling or what the hell, but I don't understand the why have to cancel your pre-order for FF X/X-2 HD, I mean we're talking about that book X-2.5 of which I would burn it, but X and X-2 are not bad, both are a game from some 10 years ago, and worth play them, they became in my favorite Final Fantasy and thanks to them I met the FF world saga, but.. as I said is game from some 10 years, but was famous and that's why they are making a HD ver, but now I don't know who the hell from Square Enix but are destroying the story and maybe just because we have our atention in X/X-2 hd remaster they wanna make a X-3 but taking down everything what happened in the previous games ;A; I think you should play X/X-2 but ignore everything else about this book and X-3
10 years, 10 months ago
lol this is great.
10 years, 10 months ago
... What? What the hell Square Enix?
10 years, 10 months ago
Finally something good came out of FFX.
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3 years, 6 months ago
This article, and the confused fallout of the misinformed masses, is what happens when journalists and media releases contain far more conjecture, half-truths, inaccuracies, and wildly incorrect statements; to which they assert, are the facts. Whenever I observe stupidity this rampant, the blood pressure in my forehead spikes so badly the cliché "popping a blood vessel" doesn't do it justice.
First, let me clarify, I hate FFX-2.5, I think it ruins so much, but if you are going to hate it, you have to understand why, otherwise you're just a blabbering idiot throwing a tantrum. It's not that hard to understand a little lore of meta-physics people:
Tidus is not, nor was he ever, dead. Necrophilia, therefore, is utterly impossible - now and forever. He was a dream, a figment of complete imagination of the subconscious minds of the fayth <- The actual dead people that sacrificed themselves in order to become for Yu Yevon's Grand Summoning of Sin. Aeons you summon in the game are the resultant power given to Yuna by A SINGLE FAYTH. Whereas Sin is the product of thousands of people who willingly became Fayth to create Sin for Yu Yevon ->Who, now imbued eternally by their unending flow of "Fayth power" is merely an entity than can do nothing else but create/summon Sin to, (originally eradicate machina and those who employ it like Bevelle), rampage out of control every so often.
While they are now just an eternal power source for Yu Yevon to constantly conjure the summoning of Sin, the souls of the Fayth anguish over their mistake at what they had wrought, and collectively, yet incoherently, they begin yet another summoning of their own. The home they had destroyed with their own mistake/creation/sin was born; a dream world of their own making - Dream Zanarkand.
So you see, Tidus cannot be dead. He is real, but in as much the same way as Aeons are real. They are manifestations created by the power of the Fayth. Thus he cannot "die" because he's never really existed, save as a dream of a powerful Fayth; the Fayth of Bahamut. The Fayth at the various "Temples of Yevon" are those who opposed Yu Yevon's plan to create Sin to wipe out the machina of Bevelle. They warned it would be far too dangerous and wild to control, (and they were right).
Anyway, now that you know all that, you also know everything in this article about Yuna bringing him to life like some god-like white mage, or some bullshit is BOGUS. that is not even what the Novella fucking says at all. The Fayth brought him back, and through their power, granted him true, permanent existence. So, he's real now. The thing that Square *DID* fuck up was this bullshit falling out/fight between Yuna and Tidus. Yeah right, after going through all the insane shit they did, they gonna break up like stupid fucking teenagers over some petty fucking BULLSHIT??? Fuck off. and this article for fucking up lore too.