>>99257934If you like story-heavy JRPGs and can cope with anime tropes, XC2 is definitely worth playing. You can play through it just fine with no knowledge of 1, though having played 1 makes some of the shit that goes down in the final chapter of 2 take a whole new meaning.
You can easily emulate 1 on most toasters or hack it (or buy it, 20 bucks on Wii U Virtual Console, 40 for the N3DS port) on your N3DS or Wii U, and I'd recommend doing so even though it's not vital for playing 2, just because it's an amazing game by its own right.