The game struggles a bit being stuck between a true sequel to the amazing first game and being a game that can be played without any knowledge from the first one. Still a really decent mystery game from Uchikoshi that I 100% recommend.

This game has a lot of redeeming qualities. I apprecaite what the writer was trying to do with the big twist because writing a story around that twist seems so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ difficult. But their is so much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that is infuriating with how the characters interact with eachother to not give away the twist. Throughout the entire game I probably had like 25 moments where I was so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoyed with the writing and how the characters are talking to eachother and why they aren't asking certain questions and why they were ignoring certain glaringly obvious things. The first game had a similar twist where one key piece of information made me open up the chart and piece everything together which is one of the best personal experiences I've ever had with any fictional story, but in this game so much ♥♥♥♥ is forced and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ insufferable while you are playing it to make that payoff feel worth it. ALso the twist involves the game literally lying to you, it doesn't have anything to do with what's actually happening in the story. IDK how I feel about that whether it should be allowed in a mystery type game, Danganronpa case 3-1 had a somewhat similar twist but worse. I think Date and Aiba were a great perspective pairing and foils for eachoher in the first game. I like Ryuki and Tama but they were kinda boring at times. I loved Mizuki and Aiba in the first game,, but I really like their characters through their relationship with Date because that was the focus in the first game, and Date is barely in this game and their characters don't have any new crazy arc in this game to make up for that. One good thing about this game compared to the first is Ota is barely in it. Kizzy and Lien's romance was so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid and I've seen the exact same romance written in like every ♥♥♥♥♥♥ anime ever. The somniums also look a lot worse compared to the first game IDK why, aiba's new walking animation/model looks worse and everything looks less dream like. If you loved the first game like I did I'd recommend this. If you just liked the first game your probably not gonna have a fun time with this one because their is so much more filler conversations and frustrating writing to get to the good parts. The ending song is also worse than the first game.