100 steps forward and about 90 backwards in pretty much every area outside of raw combat. terrible level curves, even worse dungeons than the first and the realisation that none of the side content (bar the first few hours of dondoko island) is interesting really makes it a slog to get through those last few chapters. story is mostly great, bar one character constantly doing shady shit for no reason just to create false conflict (even in the finale. why.)

sad that we probably won't see a return to hawaii, i see it like ijincho in lad8: huge potential, well-designed, explorable, but in the end there's just nothing in it. all it needs is a tune-up like ijincho got in lost judgment...