Sorry you missed the bitter emo with a heart of gold, the "energetic" 15-year-old girl, the mysterious "old" (read: 25 years old) guy, and their quest to save the world from a super secret hidden threat, but FF XII actually tried to do things differently without being completely cliched and ridiculous. Lots of things happened in XII, but for once the game put love stories and angst in the background in favour of telling the story of two warring countries and the little guy caught in the middle.