got this one on a whim when it came through a store i worked at, and it quickly became one of my favorites. i would sit and play for hours just grinding to expand the compendium. game looks great, pre rendered backgrounds reign supreme in style. honestly i think the city and town areas were more memorable than the dungeons. some tracks shine while others are pretty standard loops, but nothing that i ever found grating. story and characters are entertaining throughout. while building crazy demon comps is not entirely needed to beat this (aside from a few battles) i enjoyed messing around to see what i could build. definitely one of my highest recommended smt games

I don't know how it's possible, but this game took everything they did in the first one and threw it out the window. The combat was changed; there were some improvements, but basically demons became very useless, and they added special powers depending on the weapon, which hardly changes anything in combat. The story of the game was just horrible this time around; there were several new characters with no charisma at all, and even the characters that had charisma in the first one had much less shine in this one. The main villain of the plot is interesting at first until he becomes unbearable too. The final chapter this time also gave the game a boost, but the ending was a mess. You can perfectly understand why they never made a Raidou 3 after this.