Don't you love a sequel that improves in actually everything the original was going for

In terms of gameplay it’s easily a contender for the best one so far, years and years of refinement are crazy noticeable so being unbalanced is nothing compared to how fun and broken every fighting style is. Same goes for every other mechanic here though! Chases, climbing, stealth and investigations don’t feel wonky anymore, gotta love seeing how many of these ideas are finally realized properly after so much ngl. Lastly even the game progression is great too! Barely felt slow and the side content never felt like a chore

Writing was peak! And I can’t really conceive thinking otherwise. Extremely weak to character focused plots like these, especially in a setting that constantly gives them something to do and highlights how much they’ve grown and can bring to the table. None of this was perfect of course, and rrg still has a lot of work to do with how they handle these serious topics, this is their best handling of them yet but the bar is so low that I don’t feel like praising them for at their worst getting my eyes rolling.

Overall it's really up there as one of their best tho, if i went on about every aspect of its storytelling that would be a whole other movie so trust me when i say it's peak yagami-sensei itsumo arigato gosaimasu and all that