Arghhh! I'm such a slave to physical media! Why did I just buy a physical English Vita copy of FFX-2 when I only picked up and beat the PS4 version two months ago?! I wasn't even looking for it. It just caught the corner of my eye.

But it was only 32 dollars with free shipping! As soon as this seller runs out, you can probably flip it for double as it's quite hard to come by (unless you live in Hong Kong/Singapore/Malaysia, in which case it might be easier). There's only 2 left. Get it while it's hot:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/PS-VITA-FINAL-FANTASY-X-2-HD-ENGLISH-VERSION-NEW-SEALED/132243459375?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649

Final Fantasy X-2 is the first ever direct sequel to a main entry of the iconic franchise. It is also a half-assed addition that is albeit not without its merits. It obviously had some great ideas going for it (primarily the combat system), as well as glimpses of what could have been if the game took an introspective approach to the story, instead of this hot mess we ended up having. But for all the good it does, there's at the same time also so much wrong with this game that it (not so rarely) feels like it was aimed more at 10 year old girls instead of the fans of the game preceding it.
Pros: Excellent music, superb and fun combat system, dress spheres and spherecom are cool additions, introspective moments in the story are really good, visuals still look good, plenty of secrets and optional content, tries to mix things up in the gameplay department
Cons: Horrible characterization (especially of already established characters), for the most part the script is moronic, reeks of low budget and laziness, the very few areas that are new to X-2 compared to X feel cheap and unimaginative, however good the dress sphere system is - it reduced the game to an RPG lite

Platinum trophy, you will be mine!! :)

Not quite as good as FFX but, in my opinion, really underrated. Most people are put off by the happy-go-lucky theme of the first few hours which is vastly different from FFX. But the funny thing is that one of the main themes of FFX-2 is change. So, the people who don't like the change in themes in X-2 are representing the people in the very game who refuse to change (i.e. New Yevon).

Oh, and the battle system's kinda cool. Changing jobs mid-combat is really innovative and gives you a lot of options.

While the job system is excellent and the game's saving grace (and while the music doesn't hold a candle to Uematsu's genius, some of it is actually surprisingly good), in terms of storyline and characters it's just TOO silly at times. FFX-2 is basically what happens when a JRPG developer attempts to reach a younger demographic, the result being a game where lead characters do SODDING J-POP ROUTINES, scaring off diehards like yours truly (who expects a Final Fantasy to have a degree of grace and seriousness about it) in the process. But then the FF series started going downhill the moment Sakaguchi left Squeenix anyhow. Still fun to play, but only enjoyable in very mild doses.

FFX-2 gets more hate then it deserves in my opinion. While it can't hold a candle to the original it was still a fun adventure but the ending lets it down somewhat.