Regarding all the talk of how Khimari is doomed to suck, all I have to say is things would have worked out a whole lot better if there was an actual Sphere GRID and not what's really a Sphere Board From Candyland.
Tidus must be the dumbest person on Spira.
Yup.
He got isekai'd to a completely alien world where he understands absolutely nothing of what's going on.
Technically he's more of like, a
refugee from the Dream of the Windfish with the slight complication that he's also the son of some dude who I think is a real dude who just like hooked up with some phantasmal dream phantom. Come to think of it, it's kinda like if you're GMing an RPG, and you decide to do a big timeskip, and the one player goes "you know what? My character is actually the sort who if we're sitting around that long is totally going to hook up with someone and try the family bit for a while" and then the GM is stuck in this super awkward situation where there's this now adult son of the guy around and like, the GM didn't plan for that and really doesn't want to be running some kind of GMPC so they just give him a super annoying personality and inability to pay attention to the plot in a subconscious if not passive aggressive effort to hint to everyone that they should really ditch him and they can focus on moving things forward properly, but, you know how stubborn players get.
Tidus is kinda a dumbly but he's rich in pure emotional intelligence.
I wouldn't even say that. Emotional intelligence would be exactly what you need to work out that oh, we're basically dragging this girl off to throw into a volcano. Instead he's just kinda "hey I don't get it, why is everyone acting all sad constantly?"
That said, I don't think the new sprites are terrible. I do think they could be a lot better, but the fact that Kazuko Shibuya is behind them makes my feelings a lot more complicated. I don't really think she gets the recognition she deserves (at least in the west) despite being responsible for a major part of the series' identity. She's every bit as integral to the series as Amano and yet she's practically unheard of.
I would argue she's significantly more important. Like, especially in America we never really saw any of Amano's promo art outside of like, strategy guides and status screen portraits, and like, I'll take Sprite Cecil over Status Cecil any day of the week.
That said, as someone who does a lot of sprite art when nobody's looking and comparing styles and such I honestly thing the original FF6 sprites in particular are like, the absolute unapproachable pinnacle of the form (and I know at least DeNA agrees with me because Record Keeper used them as a model for EVERYTHING), but like... hey, if you want to collect a new paycheck you gotta do new work, and it's just plain diplomatic to try and incorporate some tweaks and particularly palette changes from the ugly as sin mobile ports.
I'm particularly curious what they do with Setzer in these because previously we went from the dapperest dude to ever tie on a cravat
to Mobile's, uh... congrats on your transition, but do you need to like borrow a comb or something?