The story is less impactful as the first one, but I think the whole rest of the game makes up for it. The middle of the game is kind of boring and feels like nothing is happening, but whatever. There's a lot of variety in the pokemon and there's always something you can do, including stuff thats not part of the main story. I really liked raising my fame as an actor. The climax of the story is kind of whatever, but battling is fun and the towns are all very pretty. Its pretty good.