Honestly the biggest jump in quality I’ve seen for a sequel in a while. The visuals are far better presented (if still a bit janky), the characters are more endearing, it’s better paced, the combat’s refined and much more enjoyable, and dungeons aren’t nearly as tedious as before

The music is absolutely awesome too. Like the first, the dungeons play instrumentals with vocals coming in during combat, but here pretty much every single song sounds soooo good. Especially when you reach the bosses and the dungeon track turns into an EDM remix by TeddyLoid

My only real gripe has to do with side content. It carries over “causality links” where you can take quests from any NPC you come across, but it still isn’t a system I cared for. But thankfully it can be easily ignored for the story and main character episodes so not a big deal

Also while the story is technically set after Overdose, it’s basically the exact same premise. To the point where this more felt like a do-over than anything which could make it feel a bit formulaic, but I didn’t mind