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X and X-2 have so much time travel.
X: People die because they got sucked in by time travelling monster
X-2: Recovering time-travelling boyfriend by astral-projecting to sing the songs of a 100 year old pop-star who is also Yuna but... Time travel?
Edit: I would also accept the "alternate realities" interpretation from comments below, but I'd say travelling between alternate realities is covered under the general umbrella of "time travel".
None of X is actually time travel though. Thats what was so great about the game.
Major spoilers below.
Spoiler
X: Sin never time travels to my knowledge. Yu Yevon infects the final summoning that was used to defeat the last Sin in order to create the new Sin. The final summon is created from one of the summoner's guardians, and the summoner dies in the summoning process.Throughout most of the game, it's assumed that Tidus traveled 1000 years into the future, but it's later revealed that he came from dream Zanarkand that was created by the Fayth. No time travel actually occurred, and Tidus always existed in the present time.
X-2: Again, Tidus never traveled through time. He also still has his memories of Yuna and their relationship, implying this is the same Tidus from before. Still no time travel.
The 100 year old pop star who looks like Yuna, and with a partner who looks like Tidus, that's just history rhyming. All of the relevant information for Yuna was conveyed via video spheres, which are no more time travel than watching old videos is time travel.
What's wild to consider is that Dream Zanarkand existed as an island somewhere on Spira.
Though this begs more questions...
How long has it existed?
I think it's safe to say that the flashbacks Tidus has are not implanted, since Jecht also existed and they sent Jecht first.
So it has probably been there since Jecht was born?
This whole-ass city is just floating around out there somewhere, Sin has ignored it for decades, and it has modern day tech.
You're telling me they couldn't have dreamt of some fucking nukes or something?
"Tidus is the nuke"
TIDUS IS A WHINGY CRYBABY TWINK
My understanding was always that Yu Yevon and the Fayth created dream Zanarkand and Sin just before Zanarkand was destroyed by Bevelle, in order to preserve its memory.
I also seem to recall that Sin protected dream Zanarkand from discovery or interference to preserve its own ongoing existence, since Sin was constantly being summoned by the Fayth.
So wait, why did Sin then attack Zanarkand?
Did Jehct pull a fast one when Yu Yevon was having a nap?
Also how the hell did Jehct leave in the first place?
Did Dream Zanarkand stop existing after Sins attack?
Or was it still there, licking its wounds while Tidua played blitzball with the country folk?
By that point, Jecht was Sin, he had asked Auron (who was unsent by then) to watch over Tidus in dream Zanarkand, and wanted to bring Tidus to Spira. That was the cause of the attack at the beginning of the game.
Jecht went from Zanarkand to Spira by swimming out too far and coming into contact with the previous incarnation of Sin while it was still healing, I think?
Dream Zanarkand did still exist after that attack, otherwise Sin wouldn't have existed throughout the game. That's why when Sin is defeated before the eternal calm, Tidus also goes to the farplane with the Fayth. Either both exist, or neither exist.