Growlanser II: The Sense of Justice expanded the debut's idea in all sorts of different directions. Firstly, it introduced an additional layer of complexity with its weapon augments system, as the template evolved to a mission-oriented progression similar to Tactics Ogre. This change created a vast space for plenty of story choices, branching storylines, subplots, relationships, side quests and endings. Despite the heavy war themes, its many scenes still held a fair bit of comedic personality and boasted character/world building in spades, acheiving a sort of multifaceted construct that's equal parts heartfelt, dramatic, verbose, playful and sophisticated. However - while there's an impressive degree of mission variety scattered around, some of which tend to highlight a few frustrating shortcomings in its awkward movement, AI and collisions.