many improvements over its predecessor
As a strategy-battle game, this game is improved in many ways over its predecessor. There are now more demons, more skills, high racial skills, the monster compendium, more human party members, etc. etc. There are now more skill combos, more ways you can customize your party, more longevity and replay value.
The predecessor was great and this is even better. The only drawback is that some say that the predecessor has better story, but I'm happy with this one as it has good enough story on its own.