as good as the second can be, i feel that it's overrated as how most gamsites perceive it to be.
i am currently playing my 2nd & 3rd characters (range & melee respectively) & i feel the quests to be very tiring (should've listened to Mea & Shyon earlier) & .... well tiring. had to do a lot of runaround with the layout of the place & maps unfriendly, i had to grit my teeth & try to at least accomplish a quest before retiring with relief.
note: i have a big problem with this game after i patched it to 2.2 from 2.0 & that is my previous savegame played in the older version becomes unreadable though it's still there in the save folder. how do i get the game to recognise it & read it? sad to let go of my level 38 Nature Mage, which took me a lot of time to build up as nature mage has the slowest progress of all character types. *sigh*