I dunno about you guys but I hated FFX-2's battle system to begin with, because it seems like a downgrade to FFX, what the hell was wrong with the conditional battle system? it was much better... but alas.. i got used to it so I'm fine with it now.
I agree the story is girly, and the story doesn't really seem to have much of a "threatening" feel to it, you know in FFX and FF7 or even 8 for that matter the story got very dark very quickly, some evil destroying the world or something.. FFX-2 doesn't feel that way to me anywhere near as much.
I got bored of it a while back so i didn't finish it.
FFX-2 rates with me 2 out of 5. would've got 3 if I didn't get bored hehe.