The story is the only thing I really enjoyed about FFXII overall, and even then it doesn't feel finished. The battle system was frustrating and clunky, the music was dull, the later dungeons were an boring yet annoying pain in the arse, and I thought about all of the main character's personalities and designs were quite poor. I did like Larsa though. :) As for X-2, I haven't finished it yet (I tried 4-5 times, but kept messing up the only way to get 100% completion, and I won't try for anything less, same with Suikoden and all 108 stars). The Jpop theme didn't bother me (as I enjoy anime and listen to some), the characters are okay so far (I think Payne's quite interesting, Yuna was "meh" and Rikku is far less annoying than Vann and Penelo). The music was a lot better as well as the combat system. I've only gotten to the "mass audience" concert about, what, half way into the game, because my old PS2 started locking up during that cutscene (and stopped reading blue discs totally I found out).
Nobody is crazy enough to accuse me of being sane.
