I've spoken before about Sequelitis, the disease that causes good franchises to churn out needless sequel after sequel. However, like all things in this world, there is a Ying for every Yang. The opposite of Sequelitis is the Surprisingly Better Sequel. What makes them opposites? Sequelitis is bad sequels, and the Surprisingly Better Sequel is, as its name states, a sequel that manages to be better than the original work. Maybe the story is better, maybe the characters are more expanded upon, whatever. Today, I want to take a look at a game, and its Surprisingly Better Sequel: Dark Cloud and Dark Cloud 2.
