X-2's battle system... Good or Bad?

[Oogle The Moogle]

I found X-2's battle system to be the worst part of the entire game. The garment grids and dresspheres were absolutely unnecessary, and I found them to be way too time consuming to productively use in battle. The only time they are remotely useful is when you are trying to get a special dressphere activated, and than only if you have that particular character equipped with the enerring path garment grid.

I found the ATB to be slow and the AI to be way too passive. I would have liked to have had more difficulty from random battles, and a little more imaginative boss fights. I spent most of the game with a thief, a gunner, and a warrior. I found lady luck and mascot to be absolutely useless and I never used them. I never changed in battle, and trying to get every spell for every dressphere, is an insane act of only the most loyal FF fans. But after getting every materia to master level - including Knights of the Round - this will prove to be just as tedious, but a little less Final Fantasy.

[Zotar]

the FF10-2 system requires patience, every dresspere is useful once you level it up a bunch. Lady Luck is one of my personal favorites because of the Reels abilities. If you do the last one just right, you can get tons of money and rare items. Alchemist is my all time favorite because you can use it for anything. Mixing is da bomb!. I like black knight sipmly becuase it looks awesome. But changing in battle does take alot of time. I change before battles or boss fight or even entire levels depending on what iv'e learnedfrom previous defeats or victories.

[The Advent Wanderer]

i thought it was awesome
i liked the whole think on the fly thing


only thing that sucked was when you attemped a all nighter
crashed around 4 in a battle
and woke up with a game over haha

[Snaggle_Tongue]

I thought the battle system was the best thing about the entire game XD it was the first real PS/PS2 prototype of a looser turnbased system, with the simplicity of only really having to level, but getting to select what skills to nurture and which to ignore - which takes quite a bit less time than, say, licences in FFXII.

As for lady luck, I loved her. The Dark Knights were my way of cheating through the second life for 1% that I'd missed - easy, easy damage.

As for the Gunner, Their and Warrior - I must admit that, other than when forced to, I didn't really use them.

Oh and I hated the rest of the game, other than that sphere game. XD

[JET73L]

As for the battle system, I liked some parts of it, hated others. A lot of it was actlly very innovative, and made p for a lot of the bits of the battle system that i hted (but by no means all). Overall, I;d say it was a perfectly reasonable batttle sytem, it just didn;t seem very Final Fantasy (except of course the insane levelling up for mximum skill levels, that was perfectly final fantasy).