Another interesting change would be in the gender of the party. For the first time in any Console RPG, the playable characters that make up your party are all female. While this doesn’t bother me, especially since I prefer to play female characters in my RPGs, I have read other reviews online that have criticized this gameplay decision. The truth is that the game is meant to be played this way, if only to accentuate the “Happy” mood in which the player finds the recently saved citizens of Spira. While most RPGs revel in their dark and morose world full of spooky monsters and even spookier townspeople, Final Fantasy X-2’s story takes place in a world where evil has been vanquished and people are enjoying their new-found freedom.