The game for the most part is plenty fun, and i reached about till the point where you recruit everyone but didn't do the any of the Mini bosses that come under the Neo Leader Squad. The Game also has the right amount of difficulty too, since i did fail a few times so couldnt completely steamroll the game without strategy. Also did like the hints in the names themselves of what the type of character it is, took me a while to realize it though. Another thing is that even though I haven't played the first game, calling back to it seems kinda fun, gives the world a feeling of more happening in it.
Two issues I can think of are that the Charlie Cutscenes, both of them did lag like a lot which i don't imagine is intentional. Other part being that while the gameplay is fun, after like the 9 times I did it, felt like kinda repetitive in its structure, maybe it does get better and the mini bosses and Final Boss has more variety I didn't reach there so not sure. Just the characters having different types of attack moves didn't feel like it meant enough of a variety in the actual gameplay.