@matana PSII was slow and clunky for me. (spoiler alert, PSIII is even worse). PSIV was the smoothest and I don't remember that many flashes in that one outside of battle transitions and healing tiles.

Both PSI and PSII have remakes for the Playstation 2. Only in Japan but there are fan translations out there. A lot of people hate them though because they look like Flash or RPG Maker games.