Lose yourself...
Like the previous game, you begin the game with a series of questions to determine your personality type and then are allocated a pokemon specific to that particular personality... I happened to be a chimchar. Then you get to choose a partner from a list of approximately 8 Pokemon and i chose squirtle, just like in the first game. You wake up in the pokemon world without any knowledge of who you are, or more importantly who you were. You soon encounter your chosen partner and the game begins.
I found the game to start of a little slow, the good stuff all happens after the first hour of two of gameplay, and that's when i became hooked. I've been playing this game every chance i get and i feel as though i can't stop until i figure out what's going on and more importantly, how the protagonist is tied up in everything.
The gameplay is very similar to that of the first game, no real improvements have been made and the dungeon layout is virtually the same. That's the only downfall i find in this game, i'd love this game even more if the designers really sat down and found a way to amp up the actual exploring aspect.
All in all i found that the story in this game is enough to cancel out all the negative aspects that this game seems to present the player with a gaming experience that definately got me hooked.