The time I played Jade Cocoon 2 with the volume up. I learnt in that one single experience that Jade Cocoon 2 was nothing like the awesome Jade Cocoon 1. In it's voice acting it damn near stopped me ever playing it again. I also didn't like that in Jade Cocoon (the first) you caught monsters in the wild and could fight yourself versus them and when you combined them you got tons of different looking beasties and yet in Jade cocoon 2 there was like 10 different looks this made me angry, how could they have abandoned so much good stuff in favour of cramming the disc with some of the worst voice acting in the history of gaming? They made the game much much worse than it should have been. I physically have to turn my volume off to play and put music on.