[quote name='camoor']You couldn't be more wrong about Dark Cloud. The original was really fun and accessable, with a cool control scheme and straightforward objectives.
The second one was simply onerous - between with the boring-ass photo fetch quest and annoyingly complicated secondary weapon system, the multiple characters who all needed leveling up and graphics that gave me a headache, I had sold that game 90 min into playing it. I didn't even get to the fishing/town-building mini-games, what a waste of my time.[/QUOTE]
Wow, I really felt Dark Cloud 2 was a stronger game than the original. The original was interesting in concept, but was fairly redundant and unfun after playing for lengthy periods of time.
By Dark Cloud 2, the concept had evolved enough to make it more fun and made things that should be uninteresting (leveling the weapons and the various types of tools)... interesting.
For some, the same could be said for Full Auto 2, I think. The first game was very cool in concept, but just kind of fizzled due to some framerate issues and the gameplay was there, just not as engaging as I was expecting. The sequel produces that gameplay I wanted from the first, plus there's online, plus more modes. Essentially the comparison to Dark Cloud is completely fair, imho.