A peak in the PS2 library. Combat's refined and the edges are sanded off so that things really start to glide comfortably without alot of the irky-jerkness that made Kiryu feel stiff in the first game. Incredible writing that's better than the first, incredible performances from the original cast, allowing you to finally get swept away in Takaya Kuroda's complete command over this character alongside everyone else batting a 1,000, and the presentation is still breathtaking to this day. Kamurocho looks stunning and some of the fight locales are holy-shit-this-was-a-PS2-game? jawdropping. Kiryu comes into his own fully as a character and Ryuji Goda is that dude. It's a pretty flawless game aside from having less interesting substories compared to the first in my opinion, I just wish it saw more wide release in the states beyond being on the fucking Wii U of all things