Yeah Rikku was just kinda whatever in X-2. Which is a shame because I like her so much in X to call her my favorite character in the series. Hell she's better in the smurfing Eternal Calm short than X-2 proper, and I so wish the game would've run with that more. There's still some elements of X Rikku in X-2 Rikku, but really, the entire Al Bhed family right down to smurfing Cid himself got so ridiculous in X-2 it's depressing.