Well, I was liking it a decent amount so far until I get brick walled at the damn Longfang fight. I think there's something fundamentally stupid about the setup for this fight, since even when I bump it down difficulty-wise (for people whining about the game generally being too easy I was getting a decent challenge on Expert up until this fight, first time the game has felt really cheap) it seems to be a one-shot to get killed. I think the fact that the best strategy I've had going at the fight is to bunker down in the safe zones and whittle away health with projectiles is not fun at all, which is why I think there's a fundamental problem here. I'll come back to it soon-ish I think, but I'm worried I'll have to start grinding (since revival items are extremely hard to come across) which I'd really rather not.

(Broad strokes though, liking this a lot more than the first game. The story is a lot weirder with funny touches, the CG art style still looks a little weird but the overworld is very pretty & I vastly prefer the action RPG style to the weird hybrid of the first game. Still a little weird and clunky but a big improvement from the first.)