I hated so much the first one. For me it felt like almost a shovelware, you name it; short, not enough combos, few FEW enemies types, enemies are sponges, only one character, hate that you have to collect the veins EVEN ON HARD to progress the story, ……the skeleton was there but with no meat. I bought this sequel on Xmas with a 50% just in case and damn this one its really good. This time they put enough love to deliver a good game. My only nitpick its pressing The L button to run, like WTF.
I love this game and I beat it twice it's got fun combat and a pretty decent soundtrack I played it on both the Japanese voice acting and the Chinese voice acting and New game Plus with Raven was so sweet
I ask it a lot for all the games I didn't liked, rn FF 7 been actually better then I remember, ofc is impossible to pretend I dunno the plot n ending, but it's a good experience actually