It's a foregone conclusion that sequels suck. In fact, famed movie critic Leonard Maltin has said the worst thing you can do to a great movie is to try to make a sequel of it. Truthfully, I enjoy some sequels and hate others; it's a sad fact of life. One thing I haven't seen until recently is a sequel of any game in my all-time favorite series, Final Fantasy. Though the games in the series are numbered like sequels, each game is very distinct from other games in the series, linked only by commonalities of the genre (like magic) and the classes of characters (like the Black Mage). However, as of now, all of that has changed. Though not technically the first direct sequel for Square, who have made several games in the Chrono Trigger and Tactics saga, never has a full Final Fantasy had a full sequel. So, what we have never seen is a DIRECT sequel to any FF game. And what a game it is. Final Fantasy X-2, as the name suggests is a direct sequel to the tremendously popular, Final Fantasy X. As I have already reviewed that game, it might behoove you to go and read that review first, not really because it's essential, but that I have found that most of the issues I had with the original have been completely fixed in the sequel, which isn't saying that the new game doesn't have a few new holes of its own.