On one hand, I believe that DS2 can cure depression. Playing this gave me a lot of joy in a difficult time of my life, and I am grateful it exists. On the other hand, DS2 has the exact same problems with its writing as the first one. I was tempted to give this a full score until the ending sequences, which, withouth spoiling what actually happens, goes down the usual Kojima path of pure nonsense that requires outside help to understand. Almost GOTY, but alas. Game is addictive as hell, though.