7th Dragon 2020-II

released on Apr 18, 2013

7th Dragon 2020-II is a Japanese role-playing game and the sequel to 7th Dragon 2020. Set a year after the events of the first game, Murakumo has moved its main base from the Metropolitan Government Building and is focusing on rebuilding. Squad 13 is called to the Tokyo Sky Tower to rid of some monsters to help the rebuilding process in the tower. However, a portal appears at the top of the Sky Tower and Dragons appear once more to strike down humanity.


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It's like 7th Dragon 2020, but with a II.

My thoughts on this are pretty similar to the first game - it's quite good, but it's hard for me to isolate specifics because my view is somewhat coloured, read Sympathy for Chisa Inomiko.

I will say, a notable improvement over its predecessor is the presence of the final antagonist in the story. Niara came out of nowhere, but sequences like the acid rain and Fomalhaut's raid on the Diet building are extremely memorable.

Incredibly fun dungeon crawler with highly customizable parties and graphics that were quite good for the platform <3

I made the mistake of going into this game immediately after finishing 7th Dragon 2020. I thought "Okay, I was a little tired of the relatively basic mechanics by the end of the first game but I'm sure the sequel will mix things up enough to make it feel fresh!" Unfortunately, 7th Dragon 2020-II is functionally identical. There's one new class that I didn't particularly care for and a bunch of balance changes that, as far as I could tell, only made my characters weaker. That second part is important because it made the game feel like it was pushing me to grind a bunch of extra levels right at the start because no one could survive more than two or three hits and all the costs of skills went way up so I couldn't get much stronger without committing to lots of extra fights.

On top of all that, the story sets itself up to be an exact repeat of the previous game. Oh, you killed the True Dragon who is a god that created all other dragons? Well, there's six more attacking Tokyo, please go kill them. Maybe there's something interesting later on but getting what appears to be largely the same story isn't worth the investment right now. Maybe someday I'll return to this and enjoy it, but not right now.