I personally love X, and hate X-2 with a passion. To me, Tidus and the Sphere Grid were 2 of the best things about X. Tidus is my favorite main character next to Zidane for the pure reason that while he has his whiny moments he doesn't just up and doubt himself like a lot of the other emo-ish main characters. I also like the fact that from the begging, Tidus is trying to change things. I like the whole theme, where someone like Tidus comes into society that's set in it's ways of doing things, and does things completely wrong, and Tidus questions and changes them. Typically, the main character will be in denial and the main character will be going against change. But it seems like in X that Tidus is the one who wants things to be better, Tidus is the one that wants to help everyone else. [spoiler]You also cannot deny that Tidus was a pretty good person and main character for going against his own hopes and desires to be with Yuna to sacrifice his feelings and save the world from Yu Yevon.[/spoiler]
I think that Yuna's character is one that allows herself to be manipulated, and I like the fact that Tidus helped her out of that. And pretty much if I had to say that X-2 had a plot element that I liked, I think it would be that Yuna had a change in character because of Tidus. I seem to be rambling so I'll get to the point; X-2 is in no way a better story or game than X.
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