Across Age 2

Ultimately, how much you will enjoy Across Age 2 depends on if you're okay with how little it's actually doing new.

So while it’s not an immaculate game, it still provides a great experience and is definitely worth a $4 price tag to play such an engaging and fun role-playing game. Those on the wall about Across Age 2 might want to give it some time and see how its issues get resolved in the long run before trying to step into this DeLorean of an RPG.

The problem is that these changes, like many others in Across Age 2, are the exception rather than the rule. Much of the game is Across Age DX, tweaked slightly and with new dungeons.

Across Age 2 does everything you’d want a Japanese-style RPG to do -- and a few things that you wish it wouldn’t.

Across Age 2 acts as a nice bridge for gamers wanting to dabble in old-school JRPG gaming without tackling old-dated mechanics, but the likeable characters and fun party mechanic can’t gloss over some of the slumps in engagement. [Issue 1, February 2014]

Although a decent sized RPG, Across Age 2 is too derivative of its predecessor to offer anything new and different here.

A flat, generic experience, Across Age 2 is reasonably enjoyable, but it doesn't do enough to justify giving it too much attention.