Why does everybody think Tidus is annoying

Tidus is absolute quality and I'm guessing that people find him a bit of a whiner but he won Yuna's heart. The ending of this game was heart wrenchingly beatiful and I had to wait years for the perfect ending on X-2 to reunite the lovebirds!!

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Thank you.

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In response to what you're saying:

-This is Final Fantasy, remember? They're supposed to have weird outfits!
-His voice is fairly high, but it's not squeaky. Sora has the high-pitched, squeaky voice.
-He only laughed to cheer Yuna up. Plus, that wasn't really goofy. Really goofy would be tripping, getting up, slipping and falling off a cliff, and shouting, "I'm okay!", then tripping again.

Because he does the "unmanly" type of whining unlike Cloud and Squall who do the "manly" type of whining.

The whole "look at my chest" thing when he put his hands behind his head and kind of tilts backwards.

I dunno. His emotions are kind of exaggerated, I guess; kind of an obnoxious, melodramatic character, particularly in comparrison to many of the other, more reserved characters. Even Yuna, who we get to know fairly well, and see a lot of ups and downs from, as well. I guess it has primarily to do with maturity; Tidus is not one that has much of this yet. He likes to act tough, but this toughness usually breaks down pretty quick when under real pressure, and he's revealed to be fairly vulnerable. He also makes some stupid decisions based on impulse. Like, on a few occasions, I thought to myself, "What the HELL are you DOING?"

*spoiler* Like when he told Shelinda, or whatever that acolyte girl's name is, that Yuna definitely wasn't getting married to Seymour. I would've prefered to have had an option to say something like "She doesn't know yet."*spoiler* Or when he "had to scream," or towards the beginning of the game, on the boat on the way to Kilika, I think. Yuna says something like "This wind is nice," and then Tidus and her just start laughing randomly (That's less of a Tidus specific thing, though, and more of a thing with the game in general that I found odd.) The first one annoyed me more; the other two occasions were more along the lines of "WTF?" moments.

His appearance also adds to what's grating about him, and mixed with the obnoxious aspects of his personality, it makes matters worse. For example, Zidane from FF9 had a bit of a silly character design, I suppose, but I can't really think of any certain aspect of his personality that I found annoying; he was pretty cool. Maybe it would have helped, too, if there hadn't been voice acting in the game, so I could imagine his voice with whatever inflection I chose to, instead of the generally whiny, higher-pitched direction that James Taylor took with it. That's a problem with the game in general; we are forced to take things in in a very direct, linear fashion. Kind of like a movie.

The end result is that he feels a lot like a kid. I don't mind kids, but him being as much like a kid as he is takes away his believability as the story's hero, somewhat. At least for me, anyway. For example, he did seem to actually have become my strongest character by the end of the game, dealing quad-nines to the "final boss," while Auron was only doing like around 5400-5600, or something. However, given his personality, I found myself thinking "huh? Tidus is stronger than Auron? What?" (Then again, it is Auron he was being compared to...)

I also think it would've helped if we weren't constantly having to see things from his point of view. This was actually done to get the gamer to sympathize with Tidus more, actually. Obviously, I think it was a mistake. Then again, millions of people would probably disagree with me on that. I'm one of those people who kind of "rejects" the main character, anyway, and I generally find one of the side characters to take interest in. We rarely got to know what the other characters were actually thinking in this game, however, even though they did give verbal input quite often. One character that particularly comes to mind is Lulu; she had a lot to say, but I had a really hard time reading her. There were only a handful of occasions where she showed much emotion at all, and really only a handful of situations where anything all that dramatic was happening with her character (and one situation in particular felt kinda tacked on; really, it probably was, given the circumstances in which it's discovered.) Therefore, she was a bit of an enigma to me throughout the entire game.

So, yeah; Tidus is a bit of an obnoxious character, who's obnoxiousness is magnified because we spend so much time seeing the world from his perspective. In my opinion, though, he wasn't really all that bad; I still found him to be pretty likeable, at least. He does have some strong moments, too; the end, in particular... Anyhoo...

Tidus wasn't annoying at all. People say that he was annoying when he was laughing really loudly. Yuna told him to. And they say he was cocky. Yeah when it came to Blitzball. But he grew out of that!

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