If anything, the jumbled development of this game give us some hidden gems of wisdom. coc2 is a really fun game with a bunch of frustrating corners and bits that will always be there, some of them terrible, and the future will be another dominant dick lady, but, there are sill good parts, and we should enjoy them as long as we can
I'd classify it more as a jumbled mess that shines, at times, through either an independent actor (that had yet to go downhill) or a writer coincidentally aligning with a concept from the previous game.
It's like going to a concert that you believe will feature the Pixies, only to find out that it's a band covering them and you weren't warned before then that would be the case. You still decide to give them the time of the day so you show up.
You get there, find the audience somewhat loaded, the musicians arrive, tune-up and then start a rendition of Monkey Gone to Heaven. They hold it together for half of the song, then the vocalist starts singing a Mika song, one guitarist tries to play a cross of a J-Pop song and the fifth symphony of Beethoven and the drummer starts slapping everything and quits.
Someone steps in to replace the drummer by the second song and he does follow what a Pixies song would be until breaking into Nashville Pussy. They then go for a break and are all replaced by someone with an acordeon who does an amazing job with it... and then the band decides to step back in midbreak to ruin everything.
Naturally, you wonder if anyone's still there only to find a little crew of freaks cheering on near the band and a little community of hecklers aiming for the vocalist with tomatoes.
That's CoC2.