Dark Cloud 2 was great, I loved the characters, the story, the world design. The only imbalance I found was I tended to rely mainly on the robot when dungeon crawling, especially the second playthrough where I could import some end game pictures and creature a devastating robot early on. The monster transformations never worked as well for me.

The time traveling aspects were done well, and I liked being able to see the future city spring up in response to your sim city tinkering. Best ally is Pau by far. Gotta love those moon bunnies!