[quote name='Drtyazn']What was so bad about the second one? Like I said in a previous post, I'm only a few hours into it. I don't care if you spoil some of the story, I'm going to finish it anyway... after I get through some other games. I loved the first one, I spent most of my time playing all the mini games.[/QUOTE]
Well, the "skill pool" system really turned me off-- I liked how customizable everyone was in the first one, whereas everyone seemed almost the same in ep.2. The battle system was pretty repetitive too. Also, the side quests are soooo tedious. Not nearly as fun as the minigames in Ep.1. Story wise, I'll just say that they spent too much time developing some stuff and not enough time answering the questions part 1 raised, which made the story feel like nonsense.
YMMV