I finally, finally, FINALLY beat DDS2.
Man. I still think it's a really good game, but it really is missing just that something that hooked me so hard with DDS1. I completed everything in 1, even Demifiend, but I feel no drive to do the same for 2.
I think the setting being less interesting, and the pacing feeling really fucked just hurt my motivation to play 2.1/3rd of the whole game feels like it's within the final dungeon.
Still, glad that I finally did finish it, and can move on to a new SMT game. Still gotta figure out what that is.