FFII was innovative in the way that they realized it was bad and went back to the FF system in III with slight modifications. Granted, i'm not saying gameplay should be exactly alike, but there is a certain model that the classic FF criteria follows, and to stray from that model is to make a game completely unlike Final Fantasy. Like i said, they might as well just have called FFT FF8, because essentially, that is what is starting to happen with drastic changes.