Final Fantasy X HD: 5 Moments It'll Be Great To Relive In High Definition

3. The Ending

The endings of Final Fantasy games are usually long and jubilant affairs, in which the player's party have saved the world and are free to celebrate the fact. Final Fantasy X's is similar, but with a twist of early Shyamalan proportions. Said twist becomes apparent after the party discover a way to permanently defeat Sin, as it is revealed that Tidus' continued existence on the world is dependent on the dreams of 'fayth', the souls of the onetime inhabitants of Zanarkand that will finally be allowed to rest upon the being's defeat. Heroically, he goes through with the game's final series of battles, and then the highly bittersweet ending cinematic begins to play. Here, Auron, who earlier transpires to be an 'unsent' (a dead soul that has not yet been 'sent' to the afterlife by a summoner) passes, but more poignant is the slow manner in which Tidus begins to fade away, surrounded by his friends and the woman that he has grown to love, who is soon unable to even touch him as his form becomes non-corporeal. The knowledge that he eventually reappears at the end of Final Fantasy X-2 does nothing to take away from the emotion of this scene, which should once again serve as a brilliant climax to a truly brilliant game next month. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPeAseL_LkA