This game will test your strategy skills... and your patience...
Graphics: When looking at VP2, you see some "acceptable" graphics that tie the game together with a series of blandly colored cutscenes and semi-real-time battle. You'll get most of the meat off the gameplay bone during mild combat. Unfortuneately, it seems as if Square Enix had one hand holding a doughnut as they worked on the outlook of this entire game. It's sometimes hard to tell that a certain character is speaking during a seriously important cutscene, which are mostly bland, straightforward, and without extra spice or feeling.
Gameplay: When playing VP2, you'll find yourself in multiple situations where it seems like the enemy is on steroids... a little mole thing hit for more than half of my characters' healthbar in one shot. Not to mention that they'll get smart with you and actually block your attacks, negating any damage dealt whatsoever. And it doesn't matter how small they are: they hurt big time.
As you entire battle mode, you'll have your party(max of 4 char. at a time) basically in the middle of a "room" with several enemies surrounding you. No matter how strong you are, no matter the level, no matter the amount of hits you can pull off, no matter how far or close you are to the enemy, the enemy ALWAYS has the advantage. Even low leveled skeletons can hurt if you get too close.
In the end, you may merely play this game just to have a thwack at an enemy, or to just rip a body apart... either way, the strongest aspect to this game is the gameplay, which isn't that strong.