Better than the first but the character campaigns are more or less the same. It adds big armor boss battles to help keep your interest and be serious in any match. Otherwise the attention spam would end quickly if bored or irritated by the forced repetitiveness of the gameplay. And I say this despite it being a Dynasty Warriors mod. Really the grindfest gets old fast and it's WORSE if you're doing character missions. Because they ALL carry the same stuff and the each mission might even have the same enemies and dialogue [tension]. But it really doesn't matter because the friendship meter won't change that much after a while. So unless the friendship chart is screwed up, you can do every friendship mission.
The other problems are the upgrades which can get tedious after a while. Worse yet if the upgrades forces you to either take a break from a used mobile suit or use a different character altogether. This is because you can't use the mobile suit's special attack until after a mission is completed. In the meanwhile you'll have to use the weak version of the special attack more often just to finish off medium difficult character bosses. This can stretch the boss fight(s) longer than it needs to be. Not to mention how higher difficulties can make the fights harder and more counterattack prone.
A third problem is the amount of characters and the depth of the main stories for each universe. Since the main campaign is centered on the U.C. universe, it will be getting the most detail while the others will have less and less relevance in comparison. But it's not like the main universe features all the characters and battles anyway. No, they leave out certain people and events. Some of those missing elements affects the story and also the battles. Without those, the story would only be half of what it should be. Even if it might break the Dynasty Warrior sequence, gameplay wise. At this point the other universes might as well be downloadable content, because they don't feature much of their stories outside of the main character missions nor even their battle locations.
And while the ingame cutscenes are fine, I still prefer the anime version. I also would prefer the anime music of any dub than to listen to some silly elevator tunes while fighting. Only a few were decent but there's some that don't match and I had to change it to fit the mood. Overall I don't think the soundtrack was consistent and serious enough for what the missions were.
And there should've been more modes for competitive play, like missions or kill count modes. They're good with a friend but sometimes you had to change it up and not bore each other. I do like the tweaked combo and special attacks. But only the main mobile suits had good moves and effects, the minions however have bad gameplay and are mostly useless. So don't bother using them in boss fights, let alone big armor ones. And the main AI isn't that good but what breaks the mission is the weird instant change in health points depending on what happens in each of them. This is a big mistake to have, no matter the difficulty, your allies shouldn't lose health randomly and quickly while the mission is progressing. Plus the game needs more maps and not just ones from the campaigns either. Otherwise the game will become repetitively boring soon and kill the immersion you might want to have.
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