Generally better than NEO with how you unlock extra abilities and skill customization way sooner on top of a more jovial party of characters, but I'm docking it mad points because 1) the majority of the game is an asset flip and 2) if you pick Cyrille for the end-game chapter you're fucked. Her stats aren't balanced at all for the last dungeon and you have to pull about 5-7 hours of grinding just so shit doesn't kill you in one hit. And when you do finally beat it you get an explicitly not-done anticlimax ending with like 2 lines of dialogue and a cut to credits. I'm gonna dig a bit further to see if Toma's route has anything resembling a real ending, but damn is this an embarrassing way to end your game