After playing SH2 for 60 hours I can confidently say I really enjoy the game, it’s flawed, as expected, but it is certainly NOT a bad game. If anything, it feels like a rushed but highly experimental game, in a good way.
The gameplay is fair enough and doesn’t require much brainpower yet you can have your fun coming up with different strategies and tactics, especially with Matrix extra bosses,Ive enjoyed wasting my time autistically figuring out the most efficient way to beat the elemental Frosts and RS extra battle with a turn limit was really nice.
Also I really love the unique Sabbath animations, I hope to see similar stuff in the next Atlus projects.
The plot is relatively simple and straightforward yet it’s entertaining enough, although dialogues could use an extra draft or two, some of it feels really awkward, although maybe it’s Atlus West fault and the original is fine, I don’t know. But the character development is pretty good, I don’t want to say much not to spoil anything but only Arrow’s story line feels awkward Milady and Saizo's are fine although I have some complaints about them.
The only thing that completely sucks about the game is the OST, it has only so few good tracks that it’s just sad.
It’s a shame really, that I listened to the most surface level opinions on the game and just missed it completely, I wish I had played it sooner, preferably some time after the release.
Also I’m having more fun playing SH2 than SMT5V and maybe slightly more than P3R even, I am surprised I’m even saying this considering how much I love P3, but it’s just how I feel. It's a bit sad I'm almost done with it but well, I am playing Raidou next so it's alright I guess.
For me, SH2 is a 7/10 game.