i thought it was a good game, when you can look past all the "girly" stuff in it, it actually has a fairly normal final fantasy storyline in there, the gameplay was just as good as the other final fantasies , just different, its not the exact same combat system that your all used to, so what, THINGS CHANGE, if squaresoft nver tried anything new youd be playing he same game over and over for all of eternity,
they brought the job class back which i belive originated in ff5, had real time combat, and had the unique mission sytem whereas all the other ff games were based ona linear storyline, like a train track, you ALWAYS had to do the same thing in the next game,
i wouldnt say ffx2 is the best game, but its far from the worst in the series, final fantasy 2, 5, and 9 are at the bottom of that list,
though-
ff8 so far IMO was the best OVERALL of the final fantasies, it had a storyline that was very easy to fall into, and great graphics, the gameplay was difficult at times, (as the enemies grew stronger as you did),
but storyline wise and only in storyline ff3 was the best, i still have my SNES cartridges of ff2 and 3, (if i had kept the packaging id sell em on ebay for 10x what i paid for them, but i dont,