Altus totally learned from their mistakes in EOU. The story party in that game is both boring to play and boring to watch, and the main story is so predictable you can basically figure out the entire plot if you have played any other EO game. In EO2U, however, the story party uses the most fun classes from the game, and the MC specific class is actually fun to use. Force boost is a great mechanic that is underutilized throughout the series as well, and its nice to see that they recognized this with the MC's class (in contrast to boost, which a boring ass nonmechanic. wow I can sometimes increase the power of a move by like 20% omg!). The story was also surprisingly good, with some really cool plot twists later on that make the story engaging even if it doesn't happen all that often. The new dungeon is also much better than EOU's.

The rest of the game is basically just a reskin of EO2 with the new story inserted in; EO2 is not the best EO game in terms of raw gameplay, but the reskin is nice, and the arranged music is all great.