Honestly? It might be a little more connected than the typical Final Fantasy game, but not by much. You can start with DD2 if you want, and at most you might miss out on some callbacks to the first game.
It's not really related, the first game's "story" is pretty irrelevant and it mostly boils down to a conceptual thing rather than a proper plot, and iirc the 2nd game is just kinda like a parallel world thing where it's the same universe but not the actual same world. Think like Zelda where you have some weak ass story in the background and common themes and concepts in each games but most aren't directly related or only in a vague way.
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Are you saying I could mash through all dialogue getting through the first and get a good experience?
Yes. This is a jrpg type story where what’s going on doesn’t really make a ton of sense or matter, it’s just there. The little side quests have some interesting things and some uh, interesting resolutions in some cases. The gameplay really shines and you’ll enjoy it just fine if you just want to mash through the dialogue.
Its story is about as important as Elden Ring's.
The first game is a, what, 60+ hour game? The actual story is contained in the first two hours and the last five; everything else is pretty much filler. So yeah, you could mash through a lot of it with little lost.
