I did not care for it

bit of a strech, a lot of dialogue, still a great story and continuation of the first cold steel game.

An excellent sequel to the first game. This is basically more of the same as the first game, but I feel like this game truly shines once you get to Act 2, and that's when it starts to define itself as a different game than the first.

Excellent musical score, but similar to the first. More excellent character development with the huge roster of characters we can have in our party. Excellent voice acting as well! The voices fit the characters so well, and whoever did the casting definitely deserves praise.

That's one of my "complaints", is that I feel there are too many party members which make it hard to make a build for them as resources take time to grind.

It was definitely missing some quality of life features like the first game such as auto scrolling dialogue/text. I found it so annoying having to manually go through dialogue, and then accidentally pressing too early and cuts off mid-sentence, and jumps to the next dialogue.

One thing I did not like was the FINAL true dungeon. I did not like the design of it, or the fact that it's a procedurally generated dungeon of 12 floors if you exclude the 4 mini boss floors, and the final boss floor. Awful design. I don't know what they were thinking, but it's really such a boring final part of the game. I understand the main reason was that they kept it as a resource and EXP grinding location, but wow it pales to what the rest of the game offers.

Regardless, a fantastic JRPG. You won't be disappointed if you like Trails of Cold Steel 1. I'm definitely a fan! Onwards to Trails of Cold Steel 3!

P.S. I highly recommend modding/patching the game with the latest SenPatcher, and the HD Texture Pack to have a much better experience. It has some great quality of life fixes and bug fixes. It's really simple. On Steam's community tab, there is a pinned discussion thread regarding this.