Working through a series of articles I'm writing looking back on the series and their impacts on FF and the RPG genre of the time, I've been kind of amazed at how much the later FFs do owe a lot to FFII and how it marked the beginning of most of the iconic elements of FF that has lasted into today. My question is, do you think FFII was important to the franchise or it something that could have been skipped and never bothered with?