Tears to Tiara 2 features a godly character dynamic between it's two leads, a compelling narrative and enough substantial themes to chew on to a point I can understand why so many have in high esteem this niche SRPG, but the terrible pacing and anime harem/power fantasy tropes killed all my interest in it. Childhood friend lolis, super saiyan deus ex machina powers, and scenes about motorboating titties are shamelessly mixed in with a somewhat heavily presented story about imperialism and slavery and it just makes me want to gouge my eyes out. Please know your tone.

The gameplay was serviceable and I heard it gets really good but there were too many red flags for me after several mediocre short battles (item spam, infinite inmediate retries, lack of combat window...etc) for me to care.

I don't want to spend 70-100 hours on this experience. Quit at chapter 2.