I loved Yuna because I love falling into the knight-in-shining-armor role and saving/protecting/serving Fair Lady, but that's not a role most players (particularly female?) enjoy.
I actually love the knight-lady dynamic, but the Tidus-Yuna version of it, just left me flat for so many reasons. To drag in the Akiyama-Nao comparisons, they've got that same dynamic only a) I like (and identify with) Akiyama more than I ever did Tidus, and b) Nao has a larger effect on his (non-romantic) character development than Yuna has on Tidus, who gets most of his character development from Auron.
Plus, the stuff in the essay, which made it so much easier for me to fall in love with Nao, and so much more difficult to do so with Yuna.
Plus knight-lady seems to require a level of platonicness to really be effective. I guarantee, if the scene at Macalania spring had ended without the Kiss That Defied Physics, Tidus and Yuna's relationship would have been that much more powerful to me.
"Well, yes, but our canon female characters suck/aren't THERE!"
Indeed. This excuse does not exist in FFX. AT ALL. While it could be used in a lot of canons (though, probably not as much as many people thing), FFX is not one of them.
And the inclusion of male characters who aren't inherently more active or "interesting" than the women around them also counts.
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I actually love the knight-lady dynamic, but the Tidus-Yuna version of it, just left me flat for so many reasons. To drag in the Akiyama-Nao comparisons, they've got that same dynamic only a) I like (and identify with) Akiyama more than I ever did Tidus, and b) Nao has a larger effect on his (non-romantic) character development than Yuna has on Tidus, who gets most of his character development from Auron.
Plus, the stuff in the essay, which made it so much easier for me to fall in love with Nao, and so much more difficult to do so with Yuna.
Plus knight-lady seems to require a level of platonicness to really be effective. I guarantee, if the scene at Macalania spring had ended without the Kiss That Defied Physics, Tidus and Yuna's relationship would have been that much more powerful to me.
"Well, yes, but our canon female characters suck/aren't THERE!"
Indeed. This excuse does not exist in FFX. AT ALL. While it could be used in a lot of canons (though, probably not as much as many people thing), FFX is not one of them.
And the inclusion of male characters who aren't inherently more active or "interesting" than the women around them also counts.