Yeah, but the game is extremely childish. My wife could not handle it due to that, she said the dialogue is like watching anime aimed for 7-year olds and it just keeps repeating itself and the typical tropes. Compared to XC1, Xenosaga and Xenogears, the writing and dialogue quality of XC2 is the absolute lowest of the series. It's like watching a children's show which is not aimed at anyone, because everyone has massive breasts and they keep bouncing up and down. Plus it didn't fix the biggest flaw of the first game: massively annoying battle voice overs. That being said, the music, the environmental art and atmosphere can be good.

We do have the trilogy here at our family, and are yet to play the XC3 which is supposed to be a huge step up from XC2, and a slight step up even from the very good XC1 in all respects. We are waiting for the Switch 2 upgrade, though, but want an OLED version of the Switch 2 and ideally a finfet shrink, slightly better form factor and properly working VRR and HDR in handheld mode. We can wait till then to play the XC3, but the XC2 was a disaster in our books.

Personally, I'm a huge fan of Takahashi-san's work, and Xenogears is one of my all time favourite games, easily in top 5. I got 40yrs of gaming behind me from C64/Amiga etc. to all consoles and PC, just for the context.