The Tidus appreciation thread

Tidus is great and his voice actor did suit him, you can really see how he changes over the story, only thing i found weird is how know one ever asked or mentioned his name in the game.
 
The only reason I like Tidus is because of his clothes and the fact he gets REALLY hot graffix. :]
 
Tidus' voice actor pretty much ruined the character for me. I didn't even think he was bad character-wise. But I ended up hating his character with a passion because of his voice. In fact, the main reason that I ended up disliking the entire game is because of the horrible horrible voice acting. Sad really.

Eh, just so this doesn't sound like a hate rant, his character was pretty decent.
 
lol I think James Arnold Taylor was great as the voice over... I love the game basically because of the voice overs... I thought they were brilliant. The "laughing" bit made me cringe yes but they were in horrible moments in there lives and they wanted to force laughter out... HA HA HA HA HA

she was just as bad and then they crease up and start laughing properly. It was an ok scene lol kinda*

Also did u know... James Arnold Taylor was the voice of Michaelangelo in TMNT :D (The Movie)
 
Tidus was alright… I can’t really say that I had a strong dislike for him. If anything… it was more of dislike for the actual design of his character, including the voice acting (a little too high pitched at times for my taste).

As for being whiney or a crybaby… I think it’s the stigma of his earlier character that followed him throughout the game more than anything else (with Jecht labeling him a crybaby as well as Auron). That and the often high pitched voice acting made him sound a little whiney at times, in my opinion of course.

Anyway, with all that said, I definitely wound up appreciating his character a whole lot more in the end. :)
 
Summoner Yuna said:
Well, on my time on this forum I've seen many, many negative comments about Tidus calling him everything including a "whiney little bitch" to a "wimp".
Something inside me makes me ask myself: is the poor kid really so bad?
Generally, when people complain about Tidus they bring up two things: that he whines too much and that James Arnold Taylor's voice acting is awful.
But this is something I just don't agree with. The only time Tidus openly complained was on the Al-Bhed ship and the only thing he said was that he was hungry. Tidus pretty much braved what was thrown at him.
Which brings me to this point. Wouldn't you be scared if you were thrown into something as difficult and dangerous as he was? I mean he was thrown not only into a new world but apparently a new time, where there a constant threat of destruction by this mysterious beast that turns out to be none other than his father. And yet people claim that he's a whiny bitch. Yes, he tended to be emotional at times, but with good reason. Who wouldn't be? Unless you were a stone. Tidus is one of the most human characters I've seen in FF, and very well developed too.
Plus he was the one who insisted in finding another way of defeating Sin. If it wasn't for that all of Spira would still be suffering and Yuna would be dead. The kid actually had balls. He could've said "Screw this, this is not my world and why do I need to save this Yuna chick". He was willing to sacrifice himself in order to save Spira and Yuna.
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yeah, i agree totally with what she said. tidus isn't that bad. he's quite usefull when you think about it. he's saved my ass in the game more than once. Besides we need a protagonist and he fitted his role perfectly because we aren't all perfect. not even the legendary (and my favoutite FF character) Auron who
turns out to be an unsent. he was killed by yunalesca because of his love for his friends, commitment and nobility. in the end thats what killed him.
So I say...Tidus rocks...woot:D
 
I genuinely like Tidus. But I also love making fun of him. And James Arnold Taylor was not an asset to this game.
 
eisprinz said:
I genuinely like Tidus. But I also love making fun of him. And James Arnold Taylor was not an asset to this game.
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I agree completely with this. Tidus was an Ok Character. Better than Squall and Vaan, Worse than Zidane and Cloud. and He looks like Meg Ryan. but thats beside the point.

I liked how much Tidus' personality developed thorughout the game, he entered Spira a whiney spoilt brat, but left a hero. I don' think the Tidus we saw at the start of the game would have tried to break up Seymours wedding but the Tidus he turns into did.

As for the Voice acting, it was ok in places - mainly when it didn't Require emotion, the scene where he finds out Yunas going to die though is a surprise exception for me - i thought he was amzing there.

But the Laughing Scene? No.
 
Alright, I know it's been a long time since this was made, but the Tidus fangirl in me is coming out and I have to dissect this post.

Manbearpig said:
I absolutely loathe Tidus, not only does he look like a little girl, he acts like one aswell.
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How does he look like a girl? I don't see a swelled chest or him wearing a skirt. As for acting like one? I'm not sure if I should take offense to that or not...but I'll let it slide.

He constantly complains about anything and everything, and gets the rest of the party into a fair amount of trouble along the way.
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He constantly complains? I'm currently playing FFX and I don't see how Tidus constantly complains. The only time he's complained that I've noticed is twice and that was when he was hungry. There are plenty of things that could have made him complain, but I didn't hear him once open his mouth and I'm a VERY observent person.
Getting the party in a fair amount of trouble? That's all his fault? Why? I don't see how Tidus is the one whom got the party in trouble. It's Sin who's attacking and that's not Tidus's fault, nor is it his fault
that his father is Sin.

I mean, Tidus didn't have to tag along with Yuna's party to Zanarkand, he could've played Blitzball and made a home in Spira.
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Of course he didn't, but he chose to because he had met Wakka and felt he was somebody he could trust. Also after he met Yuna, everything changed for him. He wasn't just going to hang out and play Blitzball somewhere. Besides, it was Auron who made Tidus come along. Even if Tidus wanted to stay, he wouldn't have had a choice considering Auron was fullfilling his promise to Jecht.

Almost ALL of his battle scripts are either complaints or idiotic comments like "UH BE RIGHT BACK!"
Which leads me to my next point, his voice acting was HORRIBLE. I mean, fair enough it was the first FF to be voice acted, but the rest of the cast was excellent, why was Tidus not?
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Honestly, this was the first FF that ever had voice acting. James Arnold Taylor was put in a stressful place, having to read over atleast 200 lines easily, trying portray the emotions a young 17 year old male who didn't know where he was would. Sure there were certain points in the game where his voice sucked, others it wasn't so bad at all. His narrative parts were excellently done.

He's not the one that's going through some serious mental trauma, as far as Yuna is concerned through most of the game, she's going to her death, but you don't see her flailing and screaming around like some kind of madcase.
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He's not? So being thrust out of your home into some unknown world wouldn't cause mental trauma to you? Not knowing anybody or anything about where you are? That would certainly cause me some distress and I think Tidus handled it a lot better than a lot of other people would. Yuna knew that she would be going to her death when she chose to become a Summoner. I don't see Yuna suffering through any mental trauma in the least. I fail to see how Tidus was flailing around and screaming like a madcase... :shame:
 
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