don't get radiata stories, it's gets real old real quick and it's as generic as they come, save your money for something else
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Radiata Stories is probably one of the better jRPGs on the PS2, by far. Sure, it might be generic, but generic is what jRPGs specialize in anyway. But it is a pretty good jRPG, average story, looks nice with a nice combat system, suprizingly large and detailed world, and it has a lot of extra stuff to do. It also does not take it's self seriously, which is some that has always bothered me with jRPGs in general.
As for Valkyrie Profile 2, decent game, nowhere near as good as the first. The storyline is decent I guess, the combat system is similar to that of the first, but it plays out on a 3d field, where you have to move around and get close to enemies, once you are close it plays almost exactly the same as the battle system in the first, but in 3D.
The major problem with the game however is a lack of notable characters. I can remember pretty much every character from VP1, but in VP2, there is maybe 5-6 unique characters, the rest are disposable characters with absolutely no personality at all (and you will dispose of them, because you get stat boosting items for getting rid of characters, and without these stat boosting items the game becomes almost impossible to play, but with them the game becomes way too easy).
As for E3, been fairly dissapointing so if you ask me! Some parts made me rage (L4D2), some parts I just did could not bring myself to care about (everything Nintendo), everything else was kind of nothing special.
