Excellent. It has everything I like in an RPG: a good plot, good mechanics, and feels rewarding to finish. 5/5 my good sirs.
Reviews for "Crystal Story II"
An excellent game. Combat system is nice, sort of a hybrid of old FFs Active Time Battle and the newer Conditioned Time Battle. Exploration is rewarding and never became tedious for me. The characters are likeable and play on some RPG stereotypes without being annoying. The minigames are fun and quite rewarding as well. The music is well composed and didn't feel repetetive for me. Quite a lot of different tracks for the areas with some unique battle themes for some areas.
After all that praise time for some nitpicking:
As Lina kept saying "This game needs a higher difficulty".
With a Speed/Attack focused group most enemies didn't even pose the slightest threat.
Barrage and Shockwave are so powerful, I could stunlock most of the bosses and beat them before they could hit back. Maybe remove the stun from Barrage or make the later bosses immune to stun. 75% resist isn't enough versus 12 to 16 hits in a row.
Sometimes the Mercs and Hackpick minigames could use a speedup function. Was a bit annoying to wait for a practically completed puzzle/battle to play out on its own.
Anyway it was a very enjoyable game so far, and now for all the extra content. Will keep me busy for a while even after finishing the main questline :)
The graphics are great and the story is also. I'm really surprised this is a free to play game because of how good it is!
You Should Work For Square Enix
absolute treasure of a game!