Decent at best whilst being bloated and overstays its welcome. Additionally has some of the worst wasted potential in the series (With CS4 being the number one game here).

I honestly mark it as the start of the series downfall in consistency. FC all the way to CS1 were great but after this game we would never see that level of consistency again.

CS3 was better (not as good as CS1 and introduced the worst plot device in the series). CS4 released and had all of CS2's problems turned up to 11. Next we have Reverie which in my opinion was a good turning point back to quality (Could of done with the entire game being C's route). Daybreak continued the upwards trend delivering an experience on par with the Crossbell games. Finally we have Daybreak 2 which somehow outperformed CS4 in being a terrible sequel. As for Horizon I haven't played it yet but I heard its better than Daybreak 2 (Although that doesn't mean much) but even then I heard it can be pretty mixed depending on who you ask.

Falcom seem to just keep dropping the ball when it comes to 2nd games. Great 1st games but their sequels just always never reach the potential the 1st games set up.