I heard only Pandora's Tower was "meh" to people once it came out. I actually like it far better than The Last Story, even though the latter seems to get gushes of fangasms all over the place, for whatever reason.

On topic, gotta say 2 and 12. 2 really is a little gem and it is so sad that so many people neglect it due to how different it is. 12 still needs more attention even though there is now a vocal group of supporters. I want FF to reach the maturity of that game again.