A lot of heart was put into the original Half Minute Hero, and the same, if not more is present here in its greatly expanded sequel, Half Minute Hero: The Second Coming.

Much like the first game, The Second Coming is a deconstruction of numerous tropes in JRPGs, served on a platter of pseudo puzzle RPGameplay. The lovely level to level based saved the world in 30 seconds formula is back and better, with an overworld acting as level select, but serving as sort of an open world playground that justifies the walking and exploration (absolutely hate unnecessary overworlds in games serving as glorified menus).

Fans of the first game should definitely pick this up and as usual fans of the JRPG genre should too. As the gameplay is pseudo puzzle imo, it might need getting used to realising that not all levels are bash through and clear, rather a bit of thinking is necessary some times.
10/10