Actually, in my opinion: SE ruined X in this. They made the storyline a bit too happy. Alot of fans like the SE way of sad endings. And the dresspheres made it turn more into a makeover game. Though I liked the style's of fighting they used. But the clothes were a BIT revealing according to past FF games. I guess I could rate it a...2.5/5?
Here's my opinion without sounding biased at all THe game is a bit bad honestly, not the fact it's a Sequal, but the fact it's treated more like an epilouge then an actual game, believe me I know all about epilouges. The game was meant to focus around Sin, not Machina. However besides that, the whole girl team was a bit bad as well (No not that I hate girls, I'd hate an all guy game as well) however, one of the biggest ups were the dressphere the variety of things you could do is what could keep any rper close to this game no matter how bad it is, the semi-real time battle was lovely, I loved it. All in all, if Square-Enix only played their cards right inmaking this game, it could have been an excellent sequal...however seperatly it is a good game if you don't connect it to FFX.
Thanks for spoiling it XD. But it's ok, I didn't like this game and probably will never play it again.