Too much grinding – Saga RPG II: Evolution Review

Played the prequel and loved it (even though it was far too short) so I expected this game to continue the tradition. This game is very disappointing however. Your character seems to always be too weak to venture far from town so you have to spend virtually all of your time grinding until you have the experience, weapon, armor and shield to (barely) make the journey to the next town. Then rinse, repeat. And it is very unbalanced: when you need gold, the enemies don't give enough; when you need exp, they're stingy with that too; and when you finally do advance, the next level, weapon or armor doesn't seem to make much difference.
Review by RPGS fan on Saga RPG II: Evolution.