Trails Of Cold Steel 2 is what I would consider an upgrade from Cold Steel 1. With Cold Steel 1 it is an introduction to the whole state that we are in the first game (and the cast of Cold Steel in general) with that done Cold Steel 2 gets into the meat of this arc in trails, and it holds no punches. The story of this game is gripping, even though the pacing can be meh at points when trails do side quests well they do them well. The battle system saw an improvement with some unique stuff that only in this game (like overdrive), that makes me sad that they were not brought back for future installments but it makes the system unique with being able to just have one of the series have the mechanic. Overall though the end to the first part of the Cold Steel series, and shows the strength of this arc.