Finally got around to playing this one. When I originally found it, it wasn't that long after playing the 1st game, I think, and at the time, I was hoping that it'd get a better translation. Sadly, that hasn't really happened, and the game's translation is dubious at best... but I suppose I've seen worse. It's not MTL, it's just done by someone with a pretty weak grasp of the English language, and it shows in the various spelling mistakes and dubious word choices. It's... sort of tolerable if you really have too... I guess, but I wouldn't pay money for it, and the only reason I didn't just throw this out the door is because the story is relatively short and the TL isn't horrible in the H-scenes, at least, all the ones I personally paid attention too.
The important detail is that it's short, shockingly so tbh. I was able to do 2 playthroughs very quickly, though obviously, the second was super fast by sheer dint of the fact that I understood how everything works and that the game is absolutely 100% linear. I got the Koharu and Sigrid Endings, but I couldn't be assed to play the game a 3rd time to get the Threesome ending, I just used Alice's mansion to unlock the gallery (even though navigating that untranslated mess was a annoying). To be fair, I honestly don't know what the exact conditions are for the threesome ending... I have my suspicions, but I'm not gonna bother to find out for sure. The game simply isn't interesting enough to play 3 times. Hell, it's not really worth playing twice tbh, but being able to skip pretty much everything made it stupid short... but some kind of NG+ feature wouldn't have been amiss for a game that's clearly designed to be played multiple times... :|
In any case, unexpectedly, this IS an actual, full sequel of the 1st game, which I genuinely didn't expect. What do I mean by that? The game doesn't just happen in the same world and location as the 1st game, but the 1st game is directly referenced at several points, and Claudia's ending is clearly considered canon for this game. Not only is Claudia famous as a Champion of the Arena, but she also specifically married Glenn and both of them show up in this game around 3 times making it clear that they got married and that she returned to being part of the nobility and all that jazz. No mention of what happened to the dark-elf hoe tho.
It's worth bringing up that this game is also simpler in some ways than the previous game. The stats have been simplified, to an extreme degree, with less combat stats, and a lot less sex-slave stats. The jobs only have 1 single stat requirement and don't have any kind of variable outcome. The number of facilities was reduced compared to the 1st game, meaning that maximizing your facilities is super easy and super fast. There's also fewer events in general. Koharu only has 2 prostitution events and Sigrid has none, even though you can send them on prostitution jobs and whatnot... though admittedly, the generic jobs not having any sort of scenes is the same as the 1st game. I think the combat is simpler too, but I don't remember for sure since it's been years since I played the 1st game.
Regardless, the game only has 4 Arena fights, and gives you an ending when you end turn after the 4th one. None of them are particularly difficult, and using either girl as your gladiator works. Koharu is easier than Sigrid in some aspects, though that's mainly by sheer dint of the fact that her Agility stat goes up way fast, and combined with a passive that gives her an extra 20% dodge, she easily becomes almost impossible to hit. Granted, it doesn't matter that much when Sigrid can be made into an almost invulnerable tank that barely takes any damage and can self heal on top of that.
The main problem people might have is that things are poorly explained. The stats aren't explained anywhere, and it's only through observation that you can understand what they do. Skills aren't properly explained either... The game doesn't tell you that Strength is "Battle Strength" and refers to the character's offensive ability, be it physical or magical, it's the same thing. Physique is basically your physical damage resist stat. Will is your magic damage resist stat. Agility is the weird one. I think it's supposed to affect turn order, but, there may be some other factor affecting that, because even when I raised Sigrid's AGI well past that of her opponents, there were still plenty of times when she acted second, while Koharu almost universally acted 1st even when the AGI difference wasn't that high. What Agility definitely does is improve the character's dodge chance, massively so for Koharu. Maybe it affects hit-chance too? I dunno, never had enemies dodge at any point.
I'm not even gonna get into the skills. They're poorly explained, but not that had to figure out in terms of how they work for the most part. Plus, it's pretty easy to win in the Normal mode. Fully understanding what does what, where and when, only matters for the optional Conquest Mode thing... and honestly, this game isn't interesting enough for me to bother with the weird challenge mode. Instead of that thing, the devs should have put more effort into the main mode.
In any case, the game isn't a terrible management game or whatnot, but it's not particularly interesting either, and I'd say it's overall weaker than the 1st game in terms of pure gameplay. It does have less weird curve-balls than the 1st game did. Additionally, there's absolutely no mandatory sex events for the girls that aren't with MC. Strictly speaking, Koharu doesn't have any mandatory sex events at all, only Sigrid has 2, with MC, and I suspect that the canonical ending for this game too is the Sigrid ending.
Moving on, the story is... it's a thing. It's not a terrible idea, with the spy pair and the arena going noble lady, but it's too short in terms of both text and in-game time to make proper sense. The whole thing happens a little under 40 days, which makes some of the things that happen very nonsensical if you think too hard about them. It also relies a lot on things like dumb luck favoring the protagonists or "shit totally happened off-screen" and whatnot. The poor translation obviously doesn't help either. It's significantly more wholesome than the 1st game though, by sheer dint of the fact that the MC of this game is not an actual slave trader, also Sigrid and Koharu are only pretending to be slaves, so it's up to the player to decide how much of an asshole they are towards either girl. The game seems to assume that some level of prostitution happens in the background no matter what... but you don't actually have to send either of them on those sorts of missions... though the game will be significantly more tedious if you do that.
Basically, prostitution type missions give the most money and "store XP", and without using one of the girls for them, you'll have a harder time of things and you'll be less able to go full tilt on training and elixirs for whichever girl you use for the Arena matches.
ANYway... the game is just ok, an ok time-waster, but nothing to really write home about. Way too short for a management game tbh and the battle aspect just isn't all that interesting. Whether it's a worthy successor to the 1st game or not is a matter of personal preference most likely.
