I loved the first game so I was very excited to try the sequel. The original game was really genius in terms of feel and surprising story in the end. The sequel does many similar positive things. But since the game is mostly a set of puzzles I am not sure whether they were that better in this installment compared to the original. Sequentially giving you the same puzzle but just different problem is a bit cheap trick that this game does. Compared to the original, this game adds some more mini games to the professor's trunk. But with the exception of camera mini game, I didn't care much for others. Tee brewing minigame was intriguing but I hate it so much as I could never brew anything new or correct tea that people requested. Places you visit are also bigger compared to the original. But I don't think I liked that. Foolsense is a town in which you will spend what feels like half of the game. And at the end I was a bit sick of that place. Navigating through it's vast map was annoying with constant back and fourths which made me accidentally skip a lot of puzzles that townspeople offered on random corners of the town. Luckily you can play those missed puzzles in witch's hut, but they don't feel as satisfying compared to having a random conversational context that you get when a townsperson challenges you with a puzzle. Probably the biggest let down for me was story. The game really engages you in story, so it disappoints you that more when it doesn't deliver on the end. The biggest miss in the story is introducing certain character (Anthony Herzen) at the very end of the game and then finishes with emotional finale with this certain character that we have no emotional connection with whatsoever. I hate when they force piano music on some "touching" scenes of reunion that came out of nowhere. So the game left a bit bitter taste because of that and I don't think I can recommend it over the original. But I am still excited to try third installment in the series.