Bog-Standard good ol' Armored Core. Not much else to say, aside from this game is generally the bare minimum for what makes a solid AC game. Fun parts, cool story and aesthetic, fantastic soundtrack, enjoyable progression, so on. While it's a general step down from something as masterful as MoA, this game essentially keeps standard with what made the first two installments of Gen 1 enjoyable. A pretty good sequel if a little boiler-plate for sheer virtue of being less interesting than MoA and preceeding the directly more significant Gen 3.