So, with my review of Garten of BanBan 1, I was a bit hopeful, and optimistic, and kind of praising the developers, though not entirely, and I gave the first the benefit of the doubt.

This game however, Garten of BanBan 2, is far worse. And I cannot be genuinely nice to it, I cannot give it the benefit of the doubt. This is plain bad. Let me explain.

So, I played Garten of BanBan 1 the day after it came out, on Janurary 7th, 2023. And I'm pretty sure that it wasn't very known right when it came out, it took a solid week I'm pretty sure, for it to gain traction. After I beat Part 1, I wasn't feeling much about the game, I was very 50/50, very indecisive on it. Not many thoughts or opinions flooded my head when I beat it. I just really only thought, ''If they do a 2nd one, I hope they do it better.'', and when 2 got teased, and they did teasers, and trailers for it, I wasn't excited for it, but my curiosity was there for it. I wanted to see if it would improve upon the 1st game. I became casually optimistic on the game.

The game released March 3rd, 2023. I bought it the day it released, and finished it the day of release. To my dismay, and I should have expected this truthfully, it was less than 2 hours long. And fundamentally as a game, it was far worse. Everything got more nonsensical, and hard to understand. The segments in this game were atrocious, to say the least.

I didn't care for Jumbo Josh as a villain, nor was I surprised by BanBan being the ''helper'' talking to you through the cameras. It all was very predictable, and it also cost 6 dollars for me. 6 dollars more than the previous one. 6 dollars more than what it should have been. BanBan 2 should have been the first game, mix 1 and 2 together, and release that as number 1. And BanBan 3 would become 2, and 4 would become 3, and it become tighter, in my opinion, and more worth your money, even if it's only an added 20 minutes.

They needed this game in the oven much longer than it was in the oven for, only being made for 57 days. It needed 100 at the very least, but if they took 100 days to make a proper game, then god forbid they have to delay BanBan 3.

This game is bad, really bad. I only continued to see where the series would go from here, and I was semi-surprised.

Overall: 3/10

These aren't getting better.
The first one barely worked just for the sole reason of being short. A stupidly annoying drone mechanic, an egghunt puzzle which is just as bad, and the bird thing, which is the only decent idea in the game (but the way that scene is built is still some atrocious game design). That's all there is, it's very short. This one though is three times longer, and has three times as many opportunities to fuck up which it does without fail.
You can skip at least 2 parts ("puzzles"?) in this game because of how broken it is. The whole classroom part is very awkward and the logic in it is very questionable. There is an overlong parkour sequence, but the controls are not platforming friendly, to put it lightly, so it turns into actual hell. The graphics settings are weird as well, my computer can't handle the hyporrealistic graphiscs this game has, so I had everything on medium or low. But little did I know, the "lighting quality" setting is actually "lighting amount", if it's put on "low" you can't see some things, including one of the buttons you need to complete a puzzle. Got me stuck for 10 minutes. The cannons puzzle is agonizingly slow and too simple to feel anything but boredom. But the fact that there are cannons all over the place is a nice touch, made me laugh. Also why is there an underground liminal apartment building under a daycare? I can accept the lab where clay-people are made and turned into local mascots (Spy Kids, anyone?), but come on that thing is there just because kids like liminal spaces. Also the fucking Squid/Snail game thing. This whole game is just a bunch of roblox maps put together.
Uh. Why am I ranting over a game made for small children? I don't know. I just haven't played a game this bad in a long time.
The one thing I actually liked is something I somehow skipped over during my playthrough and that is that huge worm creature you can see halfway through the game. No idea what it is but it's pretty unnerving.

So, are kids these days really into genetic experiments on humans? And I thought the fnaf fascination was weird.

This has more gameplay than the original game did, voice acting, an actual story, and uses the monsters more but that doesn't actually mean it's a good game. It's easy to tell this was made as a clickbait game to get money from kids, the story isn't actually interesting, and this series is being rushed for profit. They're trying to pull a FNAF by making small games back to back to keep it relevant except FNAF at least had quality to it. There is nothing noteworthy from this series thus far and there really shouldn't be plans for a third game in less than three months after the original games launch. They're just clinging to the little popularity they got from a clickbait oriented game design that'll fade away in a week if they don't pump out new bad games.