Our club at college picked this game to play one night during the week. I don't know how many of the students or my friends are going to post reviews for UNI2, but outside of hosting our own tournament, everything else was just miserable. I do have some experience with the game as I have an easier time finding friends to play UNI with, but if you don't have someone you know personally to play with? Yeah, good luck finding fair and reasonable matches in ranked mode, or just creating a room for random people to join in general. I feel bad for some of my friends who want to get better at this game, but because many of the players who are left already have years of experience and are the only ones online. It's not fun for him to learn it, and he's a big Orie fan and has expressed his concerns multiple times that he can barely play as his favorite character online. That's really all I have to say on the matter. The gameplay is fun and addictive, but outside of that, you can't really play UNI2, especially if your a new player and I feel that hurts the game the most.

Under Night In Birth II Sys Celes is an anime fighting video game that has no game! Don't take this the wrong way. One of the two only good things about UNI2 is its fantastic gameplay and the satisfying conclusion to at least half of the characters in arcade mode. As a former BBTAG player and a massive Gordeau Stan. The ending to his arcade mode was the highlight of UNI2 for me when it came to wrapping up his arc. When you compare Gord's ending to our "main protagonist" Hyde Kido, the ending he got just felt completely rushed without any explanation as to why certain events happened in the last sixty seconds of his story, and I like Hyde! He was also a character I heavily mained in BBTAG as well and I was quite disappointed with his arcade mode in general. With that being said, if you are friendless or have no friends that are into fighting games in general like yours truly, this game is dead on arrival. As someone who really wanted to get good at UNI2, network mode is so void of any signs of life that it is comparable to sailing across the seven seas as you search for the Baiji Dolphin. A species that is either extinct or is so good at hiding that finding one is the equivalent of getting a winning ticket from the lottery. THAT is how impossible it is to play this game online. And I tried everything. I joined the UNI2 discord in the hopes to find someone who is new to the game like me. When I did this, a series of problems arose that made the situation worse. Firstly, the beginner netplay room is also so void of life that experimenting or getting better at the game in any form is nearly impossible. The second issue, and the most egregious one, is that UNI2 is not cross console compatible. Wtf, are you kidding me!? French Bread, come on. You must know to some degree that your game will fail if you don't incorporate this. The point is due to this game not being marketed at all along with the lack of cross play between consoles. You will never, ever find someone to play with you online that is on your level, especially if your new, and if you do, you will get the smack down by pros who have been playing the game much longer than you. As someone who wants to practice and learn through not so serious matches. This makes UNI2 a miserable experience to play. If the network mode is a dead zone, UNI2 has no reason to exist, none. This was the one thing they needed to get right and they failed miserably. You would think a company would learn from their mistakes despite being a small team, and I am putting that into account for this review. However, even if you are a small video game company or even one person working on a random project. The point of creating sequels or deluxe editions of your games is to make them better, not worse and in a lot of ways, this game is so much worse than UNICLR in every possible aspect. The new character art? All of them either fall under mid, terrible or cursed with Hyde, Orie, and Linne strangely being the only good exceptions to the rule. Whoever created the female designs literally knows nothing about the female anatomy. Plus, many of the male characters are in awkward poses like Carmine, have bullet holes through their armpit like Mika, or are just not drawn correctly at all like Gordeau. If you drew a side profile of UNICLR Gord and UNI2 Gord, they are not even remotely the same design, and I do some basic drawing in my spare time and even I know UNI2 Gordeau's hair is not accurate to his original design in any form. Point is, the art is a massive downgrade. Music? Stays mainly the same or is worse overall. UNI2's opening theme does not get me excited to play the game like UNICLR's did. Plus, the character select screen music and character themes like Hilda's, for example, is again a massive downgrade from its predecessor. I'm not even going to touch on the UI for this game. It's grey, it's boring, and it's very, very terrible to look at. Does not even compare to UNICLR's UI where color was allowed to exist. To wrap this up, giving this game a score became difficult because if I had it my way, I would give it a 0 purely because there is almost no way to play it with other people online, it's soul purpose for being created in the first place unless you do have friends who are into it. That being said, UNI2 is the last game in the series and to put it as nicely as possible. UNI started the franchise with a bang and Under Night In Birth II Sys Celes ended it with a wet fart. Well, at least the UNI community is happy with it because new players who want to try to get into it will have a horrible, miserable time. 2/10

too many bugs, what happens to ARC ? first 3 uniel were perfects. even trophy bugged.