It's tough, I find it really hard to recommend this game to people who haven't played the original. Especially this being on steam, you have no real way of experiencing the original story unless you go outta your way to play the Final Remix on switch. If you have played it, definitely pick this up its an amazing sequel with some fun callbacks to the original game. They somehow managed to top themselves on the soundtrack, its awesome and unlike anything in other games. I fell in love with this series when I was like 10 and they went and shadow dropped this absolute banger under my nose a couple years ago. The story's super unique and the characters are awesome. Some pretty sweet upgrades in this one that the original didn't have, the combat system in this takes a little bit of getting used to but once you get it you just go. The bomb pins kind of suck lol, if you don't build into having a bomb pin in your deck you'll kind of just drop 3 bombs with one character, and the enemy will kind of just move away from them by the time they explode. It's tough to rack combos consistently with, in short don't use bomb pins if you're trying to fast build combos.

Bottom line this game is sick. You should play it just for the soundtrack if nothing else, it has it's own playlist on my Spotify. I wish they'd bring the original to steam so I can yell at my friends and make them play it all the way through. I also wish they advertised this game better, it didn't deserve the shadow drop it got. I went to Shibuya irl a couple years ago and since I played these games it was surreal to see these places with my own eyes. I'm not even a city person but if there's anywhere I could choose to live in the world it'd be Shibuya. Like I said though it's hard to recommend since its so niche and most probably haven't played the og, but if you're easily persuaded, play Final Remix on switch and then come back here and pick this up, you won't regret it. BUT WHATEVER YOU DO, PLAY FINAL REMIX BEFORE PLAYING THIS. YOU ARE ROBBING YOURSELF OF EMOTIONS YOU WOULDN'T HAVE IF YOU DON'T PLAY THE FIRST GAME.

If you liked the first one you will like it

So this game being a sequel to a ds game. the way that they jumped into 3d with the same gameplay scheme was super impressive. everyone should try this game out amazing ae good stories good everything

An update to an old great game. Multiplayer would be awesome like the Final Remix

A fun Little JRGP with and awesome Soundtrack.