I am back!

I haven't been in this website for ages, and I didn't really plan to. Buuut, I finally decided to buy the remaster version of Final Fantasy X, it being my all-time favorite video game, a few weeks ago, and to say I wasn't pleased with Square Enix's little surprise is the understatement of the century.

I don't know if you had the chance to listen to it, but it's bad. Like bad bad. So I got to digging, aided by my sweet computer companion, trying to find out if they planned to make a FFX-3, hoping that what I had just listened to was merely the producers trying to toy a bit with our feelings, only to make it all alright in the end. And I stumbled upon something even worst: Eien no Daishō, the story post FFX-2 by the actual creator of the story, Kazushige Nojima. And it's so bad you don't even want to know, trust me. I'm not even going to talk about how bad it is, I'm still not ready to talk about it actually. It's too fresh.

So here I was, growing sadder and angrier in front of my computer screen. I couldn't understand why the father of FFX wanted to continue the beautiful story he had once created that way. If you ask me, it only went downward from Final Fantasy X. Everything after that wonderful, profound game was just a growing disappointment to me. I didn't really like FFX-2, as in my opinion, it turns Yuna and Rikku into mindless women, with very reviling outfits—especially Rikku's, she's wearing yellow underwear with the shortest skirt I have ever seen, for God's sake—and throughout the game, its one calculated shot to show their asses after the other. I wonder why. Ahem ahem.

And that's not even the problem. What really bugged me is that it throws them into this shallow story, with shallow cut scenes and meaningless conversation between the three women à la poor copy of Charlie's angels. I mean, they actually change clothing in the midst of fights, how shallow and awfully girly—in the worst sense possible—is that? Yuna dancing to blind her enemies? Yuna turning into a freaking huge pink flower?

Anyway, I got a bit carried away, sorry.

I just think it's sad to see that the first and only—if I'm not mistaken—Final Fantasy game with only girls as its playable characters turns them into shallow, girly and overly sexualized women. Especially someone as innocent and "pure" –and I'm not talking about the fact that she's a virgin (or is she? ;) that scene in Macalania anyone?)—as Yuna in FFX, and someone as sweet and genuine as Rikku in FFX. It's like they made a list of everything that made Final Fantasy X so special and threw it in the trash, to start anew, in yet the same world, that seemed smaller and less magical, somehow, and with the same characters. Why? I didn't want a copy of the X, but not something that different, I guess. Hell, I would have preferred a copy of the X.

But anyway. I guess I can accept that sequel, more or less. What I cannot accept, however, is where they choose to take Yuna and Tidus' relationship to, post FFX-2. I can understand, and I agree, that things can't be that easy between them, not after Tidus was away for two years, and not after everything that went down between them, especially since, when you think about it, they never really had the time to really, really get to know one another during the story of the X. They had other priorities, to say the least. But these two are endgame. No doubt about it.

That's why I decided that since Nojima kept disappointing me, I would create my own FFX-3, and try and restore the beauty of Spira and recreate the magic of the story. So if you are, like me, big fans of Yunie and Tidus, from the X, don't read the book, nor listen to the audio. But if you already have, like me again, and you want to think that they have never existed—and even if you haven't and just want a story post FFX-2—read on.

So here you go, I am—finally—done rambling and expressing my wrath. It starts right after that last ending scene in Besaid, when Tidus is back and everyone is happy.

Enjoy!