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The sequel to the first Fuga game, it's an enhanced version of the first game generally with a few new mechanics, and a slightly more involved system of choice and consequence.

Visually it looks about the same, UI, character design, world setting; it's all very similar to the first. Music and sound is also much the same, even down to Japanese and French as the only voice options.

The characters are a year older, and since they were (sometimes very young) children in the first game, there's a fair bit of growth and change between them. This includes how they generally look, their personalities and mindsets, and changes in how they interact with each other and how they play as game characters. Several characters have different skills, roles, or even weapons which can throw you off a bit from the first game. Only Malt, Boron, and Mei are relatively unchanged, other characters are slightly to extremely different from their role in the first. Some changes represent their character growth (especially Sheena), others reflect upon the needs of the group (such as Chick).

Combat is basically the same, except that you now have additional leader skills Malt can do randomly, which are based around a new choice and consequence system. Difficulty is close to the same, with some spikes and valleys just like the first game. Chapter 9 and 10 are pretty spikey, with a lot of long, dangerous, and drawn out resource draining fights while a few other chapters are less so.

Storywise it's a bit more mixed. I like some of the story aspects, but also felt some fell flat a bit. It's not as cohesive as the first game's war story. Overall it's a little darker, with a few more twists. You do find out the reason the Taranis was built to be operated by children if you read the lore notes which was a bit of a mystery in the first.

A few new features are:
* The Soul Cannon is a bigger threat, and not a last resort thing you never want to use. When you reach a certain HP threshold chapter 3 and on, you will have a character randomly chosen (a small number of story significant characters can never be chosen until the resolution of their story) and you have 20 turns (remember each action is considered a turn) to kill your foe or the Soul Cannon will fire, killing that character.
* There's a Managarm cannon as a new addition. This can be used in any battle to do massive damage but will cost you the XP and knock out a character you choose to power it. The character is not lost, but cannot be used until the next intermission when you spend 5 AP to have them sleep.
* There's a morality system, several decisions will give you an option for Empathy or Resolution. Empathy emphasizes supporting your teammates, helping out citizens, and provides more defensive leadership skills. Resolution emphasizes working toward a goal, and provide more offensive leadership skills. Endings are determined by your placement on this morality meter.

Overall, it's more of the same, but better gameplay wise. Story is more mixed but it does explain some of the lore and mysteries from the first game.

This game is fantastic, is a great JRPG, there's great soundtrack and a great story. I loved each moment of this game.