Maybe a little too girly?

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Spira shouldn't be this lighthearted after all it's been through.

If you are blind for your whole life and medicine comes up with something that lets you see again, 2 years later are you going to be walking around with your eyes shut because of all the blindness you've been through?

I don't entirely disagree with you here; it's just a matter of degree. Sequels should have some continuity of tone, and FFX-2 is so different from FFX in tone that it's jarring and almost undermined the experience for me.

Unfortunately because it's a sequel it's innovative features get lost in the shuffle because the story gets rated as a poor second to the original. For example, I'd love to see New Game+ in a regular FF. The three female party was another innovation. Basically, it's an experimental game that got mixed results.