The True Meaning Of The Tidus Laugh Scene in Final Fantasy X - Explained
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- There's been an enormous amount of hate towards this particular scene in Final Fantasy X, and I couldn't be more perplexed as to why that is. The infamous Tidus Laughing Scene is funny, beautiful and deep, and that's what I'm trying to convey in this here video.
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when I was younger, I understood the intention of the scene right away, Tidus is creating a forced laugh, he knows it. and he knows it sounds stupid. and he was told, stop" and kept going because he then found it really funny to gauge a response. Then Yuna joins in as everyone cringes. and then they laughed genially after it. It's strange how people can call that laugh poor acting, then somehow ignore the well executed laugh that happend straight after? It was one of the most humanizing scenes all game. and it set up the whole concept of the future whistle Yuna does. It was probably the most important scene all game.
I KNOW. It’s unbelievable.
It’s one of my favourite scenes and it’s so sad how misunderstood it is 😭
Glad you’re one of the big brains ❤️
Honestly, I think it's less about "misunderstanding" the game but more about being malicious and taking scenes out of context because they don't like the game. I played this as a kid and I'm not even an English speaker and even I know what it meant. It was so weird seeing so many memes making fun of this scene but I just assumed those people were doing those videos in bad faith. Gotta produce content!
It felt like you explained something to a grade schooler because it is just so obvious what this scene is about. I must assume people who hate this scene haven't played the game. It's such a good moment.
Exactly. Glad you feel the same!
literally every dingus who just does the "voice acting bad 😤" meme always conveniently ignores 1) the legitimate laugh after the fake laugh, and 2) the fact that Wakka makes fun of them right after. Folks have no nuance.
Exactly, thank you
Always the fucking lemmings who say this shit and just go with everyone who make fun of this scene. It's a dead horse already, there should be no reason why people keep saying it's bad voice acting. You can say it's a bad direction to the script but the acting? Break all your electronics shit if you think so.
I thought this was cute and for Tidus and Yuna to air out their grievances and frustrations in a way that it doesn’t need words.
Exactly :) how does it feel to be one of the people who understood this scene?
@@AndysTake People should also take consideration that they are teenagers who are taking adult responsibilities and sometimes might be in over their heads.
@@jbbelenkokoro2673 Very true!
Forcing yourself to laugh actually is a thing that helps. It sounds fake everytime, but after a while you can begin to really laugh, about the situation, how embarassing and fake it is, and because it kinda is fun to fake laugh.
Why It's hard to understand this?
They never been in same position before in real life?
Idk, most gamers like to jump to conclusions or make assumptions without understanding most of the context and the meaning(s) behind it 🤷♂️🤷♂️
Never understood how much hate this scene gets for being "cringe" and stuff even though it's one of my favorite scenes in the entire game and it has a lot of meaning behind it
People who don't understand this probably ship Naruto with Sakura.
Even as somebody who didn't like FFX, I understood it instantly: it's a sarcastic, almost malicious, deliberately bad effort laugh because laughing is the absolute last thing he feels like doing at this moment in time but somebody's trying to make him. The bit where Yuna, understanding where he's coming from, joins in out of solidarity is _awesome._
The fact most of the game's own fans didn't get this speaks to the average intelligence of somebody who likes FFX (I jest, but all the same it needs a remake bad because the cutscenes, which cannot be skipped, are so poorly executed.) At least those who only have it out of context have said lack of context as an excuse.
I am utterly stunned that so few people got it. It seemed obvious to me.
Idk how can it be confusing. I mean i’m not even English, but it’s so clear. I know every word, It’s always been one of my favourite scene, and in some way I literally link the concept of love to this scene. I mean, look at them. Wow.
For a guy with 700 views, your point is better than most of the comments under the uploads of the scene.
Thank you :) if you’re interested in FFX, did you know I have a 4 and a half hour long review of the game?
Yeah, I feel like the persistent reaction to this scene is largely due to the fact that this game was largely initially played by pre-teens who both couldn't comprehend the emotional nuance leading up to it, coupled with the the fact that English dubs of Japanese properties at the time were notorious for being of poor quality, so people latched on to the idea that any "weird" take in an English dub was just due to bad acting. Almost nobody bothered to listen to the original Japanese dub to see that it played out the EXACT SAME WAY.
This is absolutely the case. When this game came out, we were watching stuff like the 4Kids YuGiOh dub, Digimon, Pokémon. Bleach and Detective Conan also had pretty bad dubs at the time. A few years after FFX came out, Naruto began showing up on Cartoon Network and boy, that really did not have a good dub at the time. Guys and gals older than me probably remember stuff like the infamous Megaman X4 cutscene of Zero narming at the sky. "What am I fighting foooooaoaaaaarrrrrrrgh."
Hell, it wasn't even really just down to import or localised games. Y'gotta remember that the best we had in the West 'til' then was Metal Gear Solid and Legacy of Kain. Most everything else was taking the cartoon approach to voice acting. It was either Biker Mice From Mars or Shakespearean theatre and basically no in-between.
You're just not intelligent enough, if you don't get the scene.
Thank you for this video. Some sanity with this scene is a breath of fresh air. It's a wonderful scene within a masterpiece of a game.
Thank you for watching and saying that :) if you enjoy this, then maybe you’ll enjoy this as well? ua-cam.com/video/w3sHV4JYkmA/v-deo.html
@@AndysTake I am absolutely working through this video right now. Loving it so far.
I hate how people state FFX would have bad voice acting and going by that particular laugh clip as their reasoning. Great that people like you are properly setting things straight. It's a really cute scene showing how Tidus' and Yuna's relation is growing and quite wholesome in how both are caring for each other.
Thank you for saying that :)
It's the opposite of bad acting... there are so many nuances within his acting in this scene (and the whole game) that make up for some of the best voice acting I've ever heard. To name just a couple: before he starts the fake laugh, he takes a deep breath in, sighs, and then takes another deep breath in before beginning the fake laugh. You can hear a bit of skepticism and defeat in that sigh, as if he's almost saying "this is crazy....well, here goes nothing, I guess". Another nuance is the last "HA" on the last "row" of fake laugh right before Yuna joins in; you can hear in that last "HA" a sense of relief. Almost like if you screamed or vent out to someone about something big in your life, which starts giving you that release and making you feel better-- you almost do a bit of an "AAAAH" in relief of letting it all out.
All that subtext from just "HA HA HA HA HA". It's crazy.
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My personal take: Yuna was trying to be Tidus' "Shining light" or "Ray of light," (per se) in his dark times, when he's down deep in thought, or has nothing else to do when he's "powerless." after what tidus has gone through during their journey in FFX. Yuna acknowledges that Tidus' troubled times are indeed a struggle, but tries to force Tidus to just LET IT ALL OUT. Let al that negativity out and bring in that positivity in. Which is why Yuna said she wanted her life to be full of laughter. Which is healthy. No one wants to carry a burden for the rest of the lives, right? WE'RE HUMANS, DAMNIT. (That's what I personally took from this laughing scene by comparing my own life! Feel free to point out any errors!) I'd be utterly glad to have someone force me to do the laughing scene too, haha! :D Tbh, FFX was my one and only favorite FF game, and I'm just starting a new save file on my PS4! I've beaten Seymour Natus and now heading to Mt. Gagazet!
Yes, you got it, mate! Always happy to see a true FFX fan. If you want more, I recently made a 4+ hour long video on the game, so feel free to check it out if you’re interested :)
7:10 the whistle scene is what tidus told her, and she’s repeating to him, ff’s best love story.
It is literally so understandable idk how people can’t comprehend it.
When this game came out I was 14 years old and I never thought this scene was cringe because I already understood it with my stupid teenager brain.
I always got kinda angry when people used this as a meme since it was either misunderstood or viewed out of context by people who never played it.
Like you say, it's obvious. People are stupid, or they wilfully misinterpret things.
when i was a kid i always though that they were laughing at the face of danger and laughing at their own deaths. i felt that when you have nothing to lose you have nothing to fear.
6:35 omg I knew it. I only know what this scene means because my grandma and I had a moment like this when I was little.
We’d go to the top of this small mountain and she’d tell me yelling happily really helps.
Never saw this happen to anyone until now wow.
For the first Final Fantasy game with voice acting I actually really like the voice direction most of the time. Its a little weird at the beginning of the game but it gets great around when this scene happens.
People say "this is why I can't take FF seriously" really? You critize the whole entire franchise, pooring negativity into the series ALL because of this laughing scene. PEOPLE THE DEVELOPERS MEANT FOR THIS TO BE CRINGE. It is not something they legimatly are trying to make a serous moment of voice acting in the game. Its meant to be absurd, its meant to be fake. Its also trying to explore the humanity side of the characters with flaws. There is plenty other laughing scenes in Final Fantasy X that actually are more organic and real in their depiction of the characters. This negative Meme against such an amazing game just needs to die.
I know! And that’s why I made this video, to try to clear it up once and for all haha. I hope you enjoyed it! If you love FFX, I recently made a massive analysis of the entire game which you’re free to check out :) thanks for commenting!
@@AndysTake I partly just can't stand the era of social media these days, things get so misconstrewed and miss represented because of visual references and depictions of specific scenes that are made into memes with negative conations against a game. to spread missconceptions. All for people to shit on a popular game and to make that meme explode into populartiy. FF X isn't the only victim of this.
@@Artimes. Some games definitely deserve the criticism, but the laughing scene hate is literally people being too immature to not understand something which is very simple to understand. It drives me insane as well.
@@AndysTake Yeah Critizim is certainly welcomed and I my self write quite a few reviews on games so i know full well how to actively analyize a paticular game. How ever most memes these days are created for the sole purpose of throwing nagative hate towards something where people either don't understand or even worse, they do it just for the sheer attention of intentionally sabotaging a popular product or over rated title. That isn't fair critiszm, that is taking a piece of art and tearing it apart just because people can. The worst part about it is some of these memes explode in popularity and other people that review the product, don't even realize their notion against the game is missconveyed because of the negative conation of the meme. Back in the era before social media, this was never really an issue i think because gamers could take something of negativity and exploit it or popularize in such a way that the whole world knows.
I can't stand them at all, you can also say this shit to the sonic franchise that can never shut the fuck about all of the shitposting that wasn't funny or cool to begin with but "hey this is how the kids are now! Effortless shit for cheap laugh with no purpose served to all of it!" and it just destroyed beloved characters that was once cool. Sonic shouldn't act cool, because he IS cool. He is a rebel who get shit done for what's right no matter what, he cracks jokes but when it get's serious he step up to the plate, he's cocky but he don't underestimate his opponents and abilities. I miss THAT sonic.
Social Media is some of the worst place that human beings behind a screen can gather thought devices, it brings out the worst out of people in a instant. I only have a few and I am most active on UA-cam. Reddit is okay for a few subs and Insta is talking to one person and sharing photos with and... That's it. Cant wait for all of them get permanently DDOS for good.
This deserves more views
Thank you so much, friend :) it would help a lot if you’d consider sharing ;)
Honestly, anyone who doesn’t get the value of the scene probably has the emotional intelligence of a two-year-old. This was so obvious to me as a kid and I literally have autism. So I don’t know what the excuses for people who don’t get it. I literally have a disorder that makes it difficult for me to understand other people, and I understand the value of the scene.
Oh, look! Common sense on YT.
Somewhat sarcastic, somewhat ironic and even angry laugh.... because they are both bound by the fate. Yuna to walk the path that lead to her death, Tidus walking in the shadow of his father.
Why people dont get it? Idk, its pretty obvious whats that scene about.
As a person in therapy, occasionally they ask you to do something like this. The only thing I didn't like was Yuna saying "Ok that's enough." But she joined him, which was good.
This scene get's mocked on my so many people for years it honestly pisses me off too how many people can't understand a basic human emotion that is under heavy stress still. I got this scene when I played it on my PS Vita for the first time in my life, Hell I even watched a video years ago (2015) about this scene explaining why it happened like that. You did a good job knowing that this laughing scene is SUPPOSED to be like that in the story.
This made me want to play the game!
I love reading that! You’ll seriously have the best time of your life!! Let me know if you start!!
I hear that for FFX Remake, the Nomura ghosts show up and prevent Tidus from laughing. Then we, the players, have to restore the original timeline, via Laugh Out Loud minigame
This video deserves way more views. I remember hearing a bunch of memes of a "badly voice acted laugh" for years. When I first played FFX, which was about a year or two ago now (still one of my top favorite games ever), I had no idea the laugh was in this game at all. I had seen the laugh with absolutely zero context before, both in gif form and in short videos, completely cutting out the conversation before and after. Just the "HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA" part and that's it.
So I was shocked to see the laugh in this scene when it came up. But at the same time, I knew immediately what the scene was trying to tell me. Now, could the model's face animations be done a little better to make it more obvious? Of course, it's an old game after all. But through the voice acting and the writing of the scene, and the previous one, I understood what was happening and I loved the laugh because of how cute it was. I found it even more adoreable when Yuna tries mimicking him! Then they start laughing for real, and you can just tell that it was Tidus just being Tidus in a very hard situation. I loved this scene from the moment I saw it, and I wish people didn't always lump it completely out of context with the rest of the scene. People do the same thing with Kingdom Hearts, and other FF games sometimes too. It's really dumb.
This did not require a video. Definitely didn't need to show the laugh 4 times. He's 3 things to REALLY get out of it.
1 (most important): Yuna is basically getting Tidus to "lie". This reflects the sad lie that Yuna (and the rest of the guardians) have been telling Tidus all along: Yuna is going to die.
2. Tidus again says "What are you looking at Wakka?" in the good ending of X2.
3. Tidus briefly does a fake sad smile, which can be seen on Yuna in the regular ending of X2 while she's riding in the sky.
Im the one of 0.8% person who understands
It's so astounding how bad reading comprehension is in the "western" world, especially Usonian culture.
I like matt mcmuscles but he loves using this clip all of the time
That the actor had to SPELL it out is hilarious and sad
Tidus is depressed because his dad is a whale. Yuna, who understands depression due to her ongoing self-sacrificial campaign, tries to teach Tidus her coping mechanism. Tidus, a person that wears his emotions on his sleeves, does not take well to these practices and instead grossly exaggerates the fake emotions he's meant to be portraying. Yuna is initially shocked, but eventually decides to join in in cutting loose and actually getting to vent some of her stress as well. They both then laugh at the absurdity of what they're doing.
That's it. That's the scene. I don't get why people continually like to say "The purposefully bad laughing is terribly voice acted." Like... that's the point?
Yup… they don’t understand it, that’s why. Somehow.
The amount of stuff you have to purposely ignore to see this scene as cringe.. is cringe...
I've never played a Final Fantasy game my entire life (only played the first one on the NES for a bit, then stopped because I realized it wasn't really my thing), but this scene is really wholesome, it makes me want to check out the other games! Even without the context, I never thought it was an example of poor voice acting. Like, yeah, the laugh is forced, but that's the point! Besides, Tidus' laughter is so weird that it makes it funnier than it would have been if it felt real.
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Ah damn, facts got me again!!
As a FIRST TIMER on Xbox they made it so OBVIOUS so I wasn’t complaining but man was this funny
I mean I didn't know back in 2014 people could misunderstand this scene as a bad perfomance like, out of context yes I suppose but for someone who is aware of the context... how??
Maybe in the age of cellphones and lack of human interaction, some people can't distinguish the real from fake laugh or had such low expectations of the acting and storytelling?
This scene is so much misunderstood?!
Like you and Tidus' voice actor said it's pretty self explanatory...
Whoever didn't get this wasn't following the story (or just even this scene) at all
They don't understand because other people that never actually played Final Fantasy X pass along miss information about the scene out of context everywhere on internet media with memes & slander on the voice actors it get's taken so far out of context other people that never played FF10 take it as facts ignorant people getting info from more ignorant people that they out number the one's that actually play the game. This is brought up every time FF10 is mention like a someone bringing up Sonic 06 is bad in a sonic video if there's anything someone knows that haven't played about FF10 is the tidus laughing meme or it's Blitzball
So true! And I love the laughing scene AND blitzball! :D
This scene really got an unfair treatment, and it's really sad because we all know the gaming industry won't be able to replicate the quality of a scene like this in the future, and people won't be able to comprehend it anyway because of a lack of subtlety and empathy.
FFX was probably the last FF game that would respect the player enough to have nuanced and human content like this, and not that kind of anime-style writing for braindeads that needs everything to be explained for them as it happens on the screen.
I don't mind this scene became a meme. But I just don't get the people that judging the game based on a meme without context, like they already play it.
Remember, FFX came out in 2001, this is the first Final Fantasy game to have VA and the VA is still superb for today game standard
Once i heard it when i was a kid i already knew what it meant. I thought of how painful that laugh is. Im kinda suprised that people actually thought he was enjoying it and with a forced laugh
Based & waterpilled. Finally someone gets this scene. Cheers.
I didn't understand until I fell in love
Awe!
I understood it. It's still shit, but it's actually not the fault of the VA.
I was literally 9 years old when this came out and I understood this scene 😐 people just dont like this story / characters or don’t like FF this is only the logical reasoning how this scene is always out of context
Bad voice acting??? Actually I beg to differ...It is excellent voice acting. Why? Just listen to the incredulous tone of disbelief when Tidus said "what?" when he was asked to just laugh it out. It is the silent non-verbalised cues that the audience has to keep in mind that if they were in this situation, they would think it is crazy to do that (since it might their first time). Then, Tidus takes a deep breath and notice how forceful and stuttering (mechanical even) his initial few seconds of his laugh. Then, it became a little long and montonous but by then second try it become louder and more you can feel he really got into the forced laughter. No one at the sides were stopping him though, which I think it might be a Japanese thing or a polite thing to do (being courteous or they knew that laughing is also a way of healing and letting go of that pressure inside). To me, I think it was at that point in time, Tidus begins to realise it helped (that's why it was louder, forceful), he knew it was working/good for him if that make sense? Afterwards, of course, they realised it was all too funny too that his laugh ended up like that..So you get the voice actors actually laughing at the silliness of it all (you can hear it afterwards). Many people have also felt that it was quite a slow scene too and awkward, because it is!! It is! There's a lot of hesitation and tension between the two.
By the way, I never had this feeling when I was a kid playing this game. It was when I played it again when I was much older, then all these hit me like a truck.
I get it, tidus was trying to get Yuna to "let go" , don't take everything so seriously. To Laugh even when things appear bad.
It’s. It’s funny. It’s a funny scene. They are cringe but they are free why do people actually judge it D< aaaaaaaaaaa
Final fantasy x is a fantastic game Imo the story, character, visuals, gameplay, music, content and way of its time. This games scene and story was misunderstood and people finding ways to nit pock it to death and hate on it. The voice acting is a little awarkard but not as bad people say and at times it can be good. The mini games are a mixed some I don't mind but others are not good. But everything else makes up for it and the good outweighs the bad.
I just think it's the meme effect. Most people who criticizes this scene haven't played the game. Even if they did, they either bought the game because of the meme. Or just weren't paying attention. Final Fantasy has long cutscenes & people tend to stopped paying attention anyway. To me, the scene was funny & cute. But I just hate Tidus. He's way too whiny for me. I also hate how he kept saying "This is my story". Like, what an inconsiderate ass. His friends were literally around him. This is your story? Screw you!
I'm not even a native speaker and I understood this scene right away when I played this game many years ago, really sad this scene and game is STILL the punching bag of "bad acting"
Best written videogame of all time 💜
Honestly this is pretentious. Idk how people can say "so few understand this scene!" - it's all pretty explicit and we get it, but It just sounds silly. It's bad even with understanding the context, lol.
When you force/fake laugh, it's still supposed to sound like a laugh lol idk what the hell that was that came from the VA's mouth.
The problem with the scene is the soft, tender, emotional music in the background, as he laughs. It sets it up more as a bad-things-just-happened-and-now-I'm-cathartically-letting-it-out scene, as opposed to Tidus just being goofy with Yuna.
Perioddddd
This is a sad scene.
Why.
@@AndysTake Because Yuna knows that she is going to die. Tidus does not. Yuna's tragedy is immesurable, yet she finds the strenght to cheer up Tidus, even through her whole journey is leading up to her death. It's bittersweet at best, but you only get it in hindsight. This might be the most heart breaking scene in the game, but only on your second playthrough.
@@AndysTake yes its actually a sad scene. because they trying to laugh and smile in front of people (they're ray of light that people put their hope) despite their journey and fate is going to be tragic. I wouldn't even said that was a fake laugh, its more like screaming for help
It was a great scene.