The good news is that this second installment is better in almost every way than the first one (Resurrection). The bad news is that the improvements are so small that you might not notice.
I'll start out with the worst aspect. This is a very grindy game. It took me 60 hours to complete the game (up to difficulty 15). You'll spend most of your time fighting the same monsters in the sameThe good news is that this second installment is better in almost every way than the first one (Resurrection). The bad news is that the improvements are so small that you might not notice.
I'll start out with the worst aspect. This is a very grindy game. It took me 60 hours to complete the game (up to difficulty 15). You'll spend most of your time fighting the same monsters in the same arenas over and over and over. The story progresses slowly after every 2-3 missions. This should have been a 20-hour game.
As for the story, it's generic and might be exciting to a 12-year-old. It's got the stereotypical bad guy trying to take over the world/kill everyone and your team fights back and wins (with a bit of power-of-friendship thrown in). But at least it doesn't get in the way of the gameplay. You can safely skip most story bits without missing much.
The story and gameplay are also very detached. For example: in a cutscene, you'll be asked to escort someone or protect something in the next mission. The next mission starts and it's just like all other missions: kill the monsters. When the mission is over, you then see another cutscene with your characters taking the actions that were planned in the previous cutscene. So it felt like I wasn't actually participating in the game. I was just watching the characters progress in the story while I grinded monsters on the side.
The characters are better this time around. Compared to the first game, they give a better impression that they're actually struggling in this world and belong in it. There's optional character-based missions that you can go on, which expands each of the character's stories. It's too bad that the character missions aren't any different than all of the other game's missions: The main thing you get out of these are more cutscenes.
I won't get into combat too much other than to say it's sub-par. I ended up finding the most effective attack and just spammed that throughout most of the game, in an attempt to bypass the large amount of mission-grinding. Like I said in my review of the previous game, Tera (a free MMORPG) has much better large-monster combat than this game.
Graphics and character models are Vita-level. Like the first game, there's a wide range in outfit quality. Some aren't very well modeled, while others are good. If you're in this for girls in short skirts, be prepared to be disappointed as half of those short skirts make your character have a lego-shaped rear-end. And while the costume customization options for your character are plentiful, there's not many options for the other characters (some characters have only one outfit).
The upgrade system is horrible. The actual upgrade process isn't bad, but finding the item that you need to upgrade equipment is incredibly tedious. If I need an item to upgrade something, I'd first look through the craftable materials section, with over 1000 items and scroll through it until I find the item. There's no alphabetization option in this list. If I can't craft the item, I then look through missions separately and scroll through their 30+ item lists (also un-alphabetized) until I find the particular mission that has the item I want.
So you might like this game if you can stand the grind, like upgrading weapons and armor to kill stronger (but identical) monsters, and like girls fighting in short skirts (although poorly-modeled). It also helps if you're younger or don't have much experience with games - in which case you might better enjoy the story.… Expand
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