you know, to be perfectly honest, i don't remember that much about grandia 2 besides that i had fun with it. it's a neat jrpg that's not very deep, the english voice acting is great, the church is evil, you know the drill. but (spoiler for the first 5 hours or so lmao) there's a girl who's a nun by day and a demon by night and she's better written, more likeable and has more personality than annah and fall-from-grace combined

these games came out within a year or so of each other and maybe it's not much more than a funny observation, but i think there's an insight here about the drastically diverging paths of character writing between jrpgs and wrpgs