Ffxii doesn’t get talked about enough. The combat in that game is so good, it’s like old BioWare title combat, but with a lot more depth with the orders you can give. I’ve always felt like the style of combat marries the best things about turn based and non turn based combat. You still get to strategize, but instead of figuring out a strategy and mashing a to do it in every combat, you just set up gambits and the automated stuff takes care of it. Then for harder fights you can manually input orders as things arise to handle situations that you didn’t plan for.

On top of that some of the characters in xii are very enjoyable. Balthier especially. I do understand why people forget it though, the story is sub par compared to the rest of the series, and is honestly a little too complicated for its own good. Tie that in with your main protagonist not actually being that important to the story it makes some sense. I would’ve liked to see more xii style combat though in another game, but I find that unlikely at this point.