While it brings a lot of positives from Ryza 1 back, they really pushed harder (not as hard as in 3...) for the whole fanservice appeal. That's fine, but it clearly detracted from the game as it became a main focus and the story became sort of just a way to experience that fanservice. More importantly though, this game drags like crazy, it always feels like every step in the story is hours longer than it needed to be and it ends up really difficult to bother finishing. A step down from Ryza 1, and a huge step down from things like Ayesha and Sophie (especially Sophie 2 but it wasn't out when this had released).