I finished the game
I would guess my actual playtime is more like 50 hours, I left it idle a lot.
From the last 15 hours or so of the game the brakes never stopped. That got crazy and insane and I was just dumping all my free time into this and the hours felt like minutes. I loved it and that ending was pure goosebumps, damn, they really want me to IMMEDIATELY jump into Mask of Truth… I’ll hold off for a little while though, don’t wanna burn out. There’s some post game battles to do but I wasn’t really playing this game for the battles so I’m gonna move on now.
The characters were also all really great and memorable, I enjoyed the new cast a lot more than in the previous title, though SPOILER It was awesome to see almost every character from the previous game return, now older and basically masters of fighting. I was very happy to see little Aruru now all grown up 
For complaints I don’t have much, I would say from the early-middle section there is perhaps too much slice of life/filler scenes. I know what they’re trying to do, and it does work, the slice of life segments help with the weight of events in the late game, but really, you can go through like 5 hours of “Let’s cook together” “Let’s go shopping” type scenes with no action or battles in between. As I said, for these moments I streamed the game to my phone and just enjoyed them in bed lol. I think even with some of these segments cut out, it would not affect the weight of the story very much. I thought the previous game, despite also having many of these filler scenes, managed to better pace the balance of slice of life and battling.
The battles themselves, while they are fun to play, are not very deep, just throw your strongest guys at the enemies with no thought and you win. I only died once on the final boss because he used some cheap kill everyone move, and he didn’t use it again the next time.
From what I can tell, Mask of Truth is gonna be a much more serious game, so I’m expecting better pacing there.