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As someone who 100% the game, (though hasn't played it in a while), here's my thoughts. The gameplay is rather good, the story is garbage, and the visuals are pretty good.
The gameplay has a bunch of options laid out in simple format (with items) so it's easy to customize the game to your liking. if you think something is too hard, apply a special gameplay modifier (item). too easy, turn up the heat with some hard core gameplay modifiers. That combined with 4 characters gives this game some options to play with. Now i think a lot of the levels in this game are serviceable, but I've seen people call out the later levels in the game and ya, some of them are definitely "interesting" to say the least. Some levels kinda feel like they go on way to long with a kinda poor concept to begin with. some of these include: underground maze level with stupidly simple yet somehow complicated "puzzles", space level with anti-gravity, which is just "big level" with very little interesting going on, and maybe it's just me here but im not fond of one of snake man's levels, but idk if that's just a personal grip or just i played that level too many times for an achievement or something. But all and all i think the game is pretty good. Parrying feels natural, everything feels fair, only complaint is perhaps it's a little brain dead gameplay wise, since parrying is so dang powerful. This game is not for people who want harder games like gunstar heroes, but at the same time it also focuses more on combat, which may put this game in an awkward place for a lot of newcomers. The graphics are very nice imo but i could see how for some this could become an issue, play the demo to make sure you don't get sick or just can enjoy the game with bright resizing pixels everywhere as I've heard of players complaining about having a hard time about seeing things in game, but as for me it's no problamo and looks great.
Now, the story. Oh the darn story! Now I loved the story of the first game so I was exited to see what they came up with this time... So you know those straight to VHS tapes that Disney made, ya this game story kinda seems like that. Sense I don't feel like breaking the whole thing down, it basically ends with the player learning that no matter what happens to you you should forgive people who harm you, cuz people once harmed them. On a "spiritual" note personally I'm not necessarily apposed but this, but the game seems to be suggesting that if someone's parent's get killed, then if they kill your parents that's okay, and not only okay but they should be forgiven legally. Like wha... Merga just tried to murder the whole world by (ENTER SONIC ADVENTURE 2 MEME HERE), kidnapped the mayor, repetitively tries to kill the main cast, and you want me to just go "ya, okay live free now we forgive you cuz why not". But that's just the surface of the story, as behind the main story we casually go over complex social issues like racism and genocide, all while making jokes in a vacuum to those issues, light jokes that imo (as humor is subjective) do not land. Are we dealing with the struggles of human conditions or are we making silly girl 4th wall break jokes, having both doesn't land well. Now the stories for each selected character does give some insight to a part of the story as a whole, which actually does differ a bit compared to FP1, and I appreciate it. With that being said it's kinda sad that the levels are all the same for each character, which makes FP1's story feel more real, and not to mention FP1 actually takes all stories (Lilac's, Carol's, and Milla's) seriously, So having these insights just feel empty. The split in the story from Lilac and Carol in FP1 actually had consequences to the story. In FP2, the story really just takes the whole thing as a joke. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not apposed to Saturday night cartoon style stories, but typically Saturday night cartoons don't try to grapple with man's short comings. These two just do not work together! I went back and looked at the first trailer for this game and dang dude, the story to that game looks like it would've been crazy good, reminds me just how bad they fumbled it here.

Now with all that being said as much as i rave about how bad the story is most gamers here are here for the gameplay. The gameplay is a decent enough pass and imo you should download the demo even if you know you're not going to buy the game, as the demo itself comes with a lot of fun in itself even though it's short. This game is something you can easily play after a hard days work and casually play through, which i did. There's a good amount of casual fun to be had here.
Historically speaking, this game goes on sale for $20 usd for those wondering.
Happy gaming.