Vastly improved gameplay and slick graphics made this game a real treat after the somewhat messy first entry. The story is somewhat less adventurous, but it's also much more comprehensible, than the first. Overrall a worthy sequel to the first, and a continuation that proves this can be a decent franchise.

A fun and beautiful JRPG that is so completely bloated with seemingly mandatory ongoing minigames and management sims that I simply had to quit playing.