Square Enix originally made Final Fantasy X’s Tidus a plumber

In a current Famitsu interview, Last Fantasy X’s key builders recount bringing the sport from conception to completion.

“To get the character within the water, for the preliminary plan, there was a time through which Tidus was to be an underwater plumber,” defined the sport’s author, Kazushige Nojima.

Character designer Tetsuya Nomura even drew illustrations of Tidus, the plumber, however in the course of the course of improvement, the character was modified to a Blitzball participant.

Blitzball is an aquatic sport performed in FFX, so this was a solution to get Tidus within the water with out having him repair pipes.

Famitsu requested Nomura if there have been any traces of the character beforehand being a plumber.

“The overalls appear to be,” replied Nomura, including that originally he drew designs that looked like work garments. However as soon as Tidus was modified to an athlete, the design grew to become far more sporty.

Yoshinori Kitase, the sport’s producer, says it was his concept to make Tidus an athlete. The inspiration for this was Kitase’s love of science fiction films which have race or sport parts to them.

“As much as that time, there hadn’t been sport elements within the Last Fantasy collection,” mentioned Kitase, “so I assumed this could be a brand new problem.”

By having Tidus be a sportsman, the producer added, this could give him a singular id amongst FF protagonists.

“At that time, I mentioned this with Nojima, and he went from being a plumber within the water to an athlete that competes within the water.”

Attention-grabbing! However nonetheless doesn’t beat the most effective scrapped Sq. Enix idea ever: Tetsuya Nomura initially needed the characters in Kingdom Hearts to make use of chainsaws.

“The primary weapon I confirmed Disney was a chainsaw,” Nomura beforehand mentioned. “Everybody obtained this scrunched-up look on their face and no person mentioned a phrase in the whole room.”

He rapidly realized that the chainsaw wasn’t going to work, and the weapon of selection finally grew to become the now iconic Keyblade.