[quote name='panzerfaust']More spoilers below.
You are trying way too hard to hate on a game merely because it wasn't your cup of tea (for whatever reason, I forget). I can tell because you're saying things that are flatly wrong and showing no interest in what the game's actually about. Seymour wants to kill people because a girl rejected him?
And once again, he's not the primary villain. That would be Tidus's father, a man transformed into a monster. There is the romance, their is the cycle of life and death, and ultimately there is the peace made between father and son.
Highly unoriginal, I know, to have the main protagonist give the villain a high five at the end.[/QUOTE]
I don't have to try hard to hate on it -- from the minute it's story started being about "fayth" and religion, I was done. I really wanted to like it -- after loving FF7-9, I was so psyched that finally a PS2 iteration was made. I bought it with Christmas money that year and I took it home. About the time you hit the fishing type village, I was already disappointed with the story and didn't see my opinion changing. By the time I got to the fight on the beach (whatever it was) I was having these feelings like "I hate this, I don't want to, it's my Christmas present, I'm so disappointed.
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When I made it to fight the final boss and got my ass handed to me, I promptly set the game down for a year before I tried to finish it again. That said, I can't say I remember much about the story, other than the distinct impression that I hated it because it was focused on religion (much the same way I didn't care for 12's story; I remember that game being about politics/goverment and the occupation of neighboring lands (and ensuing rebellion) in a post-war detente more than anything... but again, I started ignoring the story wishing I'd just finish the game already. :lol
Yeah. So maybe it wasn't quite so black and white, but after looking it up and *trying* to remember, it was Seymour's asking Yuna to marry him was the catalyst for the confrontation which leads to one of several boss battles against him. You kill him, he doesn't decide to "move on" to the afterlife and wants to become Sin. Close enough for me.
I'm not going to knock you for liking it, it's cool if you do; I just don't share the same opinion.