I was playing ffx-2 to get the perfect ending, but instead of completing episodes, a new scene opened up where I had to press X for like a million times, until the sound of me pressing it stopped. The scene was in a park, and guys (and lasses) in red started to appear, and they were fighting. Children were around, and Yuna started taking the red-clad folk down as if she was a martial arts master (there aren't really “beat em up” classes in FFx-2) Some of them got too close to the camera, and I knocked a dude out with my knee, still pressing x like crazy. I had to set the controller on my knee and tense the muscles in my arm to press it super-fast.
Then I wondered if they were going to make the ending connect to other FFs and thought it was a bad idea if they were going to do that. Suddenly, Tidus walked out of the fog and I heard Yuna gasp. She went to run up to him, followed by a little girl with dark hair wearing a red bandana and white pants and a band about her torso.
Tidus kept running from her, because he had to to protect her. Yuna followed him up onto this bus, and he closed a curtain in front of her, but Yuna pushed through it. The little girl stayed behind. There was a blue gem on a small table, and it looked like there was a room where Tidus slept. It looked like how you might expect a scavenger’s room to look. Odds and ends here and there, a pile of blankets to sleep upon.
Tidus tried to push her away, but Yuna couldn’t leave him. I could feel her confusion and deep hurt. “It’s me,” she said, repeatedly, and Tidus shook his head and said he couldn’t stay. She couldn’t stay. Yuna managed to catch him in her arms, and she tried to look into his eyes. He kept shifting, moving this way, then that way.
“You don’t belong here,” he said. “It’s not safe for you.”
Yuna tried to kiss him, shake him, wake him in some way.
The scene shifted to the little girl sitting outside the curtain, and she could hear Yuna wailing in despair. There were five books on a shelf, and she pushed one and a model train set spread out on this wooden floor. It was actually pretty cool. I thought it looked like the town where you find the thief guy in FF6 (or 3 on snes). She pressed the second book and another thing spread out.
I wondered why the hell the ending of FFX-2 was focusing so much on the little girl, and realized if she pressed the fifth book, Zanarkand would fill the room and Yuna might be able to stay there with Tidus. Rather than have the little girl do it, I reset the game because I knew I hadn’t completed chapters yet. So the scenes sort of repeated themselves, but there was something on the bus with me going around with other people I knew… and Yuna was even more upset and insistent with Tidus, but he didn’t seem to be as avoidant.
He held her lower arms and looked into her face and said, “I’m sorry, but I have to go.” He stepped out of the curtain and into the world the little girl had made by pushing another book, which looked like a sort of medieval fairy forest of some kind, and up through a door in a tree. Then everything shifted. I could see in my mind separate from the scene I was watching that Tidus was going to fall down into a great misty cavern, apologizing to someone… “I’m sorry, T….” it was a strange name, but I thought I recognized the scene from another game.
Yuna, the little girl, and Tidus all fell into a pool, and suddenly the little girl couldn’t breathe underwater like everyone else in the FFX world. Tidus and Yuna became little kids, and they swam up and breathed into her lungs. The little girl figured out how to breathe, and they swam around playing for a little while before Tidus resumed his former form. Yuna didn’t want him to go, but he had to.
He became his usual form, and here the dream became exquisite CG. Flowing fabrics, wind ruffling hair, etc. He walked away into the mist they seemed to now be suspended in instead of water, and when he glanced back, his form shifted again. He became large, tall and muscular and his skin was dark brown, but still wearing weird Tidus clothes. He looked back, and his face was creased, his eyes black. He couldn’t smile anymore, as his mouth seemed to have become that of a demon of some sort. He shifted again into a more twisted being, and I understood somehow that he was a sort of daimon prince, part of a world that Yuna couldn’t understand. It wasn’t that he was evil, he was just beyond the physical world. He kept looking back to her, although he kept shifting, and finally he took on a form that had wings, wavering dark (kind of like the Batman symbol in the Dark Knight—and I thought cool, and this game was made before the movie!) and consumed the entire scene.
Yuna seemed to understand now why she couldn’t follow him.
And then the scene ended. A bunch of mini games began to show up, and as many percentage points as I’d unlocked were as many areas in the mini games I was able to play. There was a sort of go-kart racing game, some card games, various other things, and I hit circle until I could go back to the scene.
Tidus stepped from a door in the tree to the medieval forest. It looked more mangaish, like FFIX, and all these big eyed little creatures (with a far lower polygon count than before) seemed pleased to have him back. “Was it scary?” a little being asked, and Tidus shook his head. He too was in lower polygonal form, and his eyes seemed bigger as well.
“It was wonderful,” he said. He was taller than all of them, and his form began to shift. I thought to myself if he turned into Zidane from FFIX, I would be peeved. Instead, he just walked off with them, his form wavering.
Funny thing is, I didn’t even play FFX-2 yesteday.
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