While it manages to avoid some of the prequel's biggest mistakes (repetition, fruitfulness in investigation, and bad humor) and there's good gameplay improvements, it does not manage to scale up to the original game. It keeps ruining serious moments with silliness or idol song performances, it's hard to get attached to any of the protagonists, not as much as Date.

The game tries to be epic at the end with some hard to swallow "EPIC TWIST" asspull, and yet, once again, fails to reach the impact levels of the original game.

Nonetheless, there's the usual heartfelt moments that do feel genuine, and a message that we are only complete when we meet our better half.