the side cases are pretty boring, the minigames still suck, the plot suffers from a lot of contrivances and spots of shitty pacing. the combat itself is great, snake style is super fun and the game actually felt hard at points unlike most of the other dragon engine games. yagamis still not that interesting as a character and the supporting cast could be stronger, but the central story is really good this time and the antagonist is great which on its own makes it better than the first game by a landslide.

very glad that RGG learned that having a stoic scary man with no motive as the central antagonist in a murder mystery isn't a good call and decided to actually give us a really fucking good culprit this time