a marked improvement over 13-1 with alot more things to do and sights to see. exploration has been improved drastically with there actually being shit to do other than fight! wow! seeing a bunch of locations from the first game in different time periods and seeing how they begin, and end is a great feature and an interesting way to justify reuse of assets. the characters were interesting to me, and I was really hoping noel would get to see Yeul again. at the same time Caius has a great motivation and I kind of wanted him to win too! the combat system here is one of my favorites in the series. being able to use monsters as your third-party member allows for tons of variety. the plot can get pretty confusing at times however and the ending was wildly unsatisfying. but all in all it might just be my favorite in the trilogy