Ququ Bucai, Zaixia Yeguai 2nd Season

I just finished season 1 and 2 of this series all in one night and I must say this series was SUCH A GOOD ISEKAI!!! Not only does it have an awesome story that was continued from season 1 but it also does a great job at exploring sentient life in the VRMMORPG that our MC is currently trapped in. I have always loved isekai with a twist and this has to be one of the best ones I have watched in a long time. It's got the trapped in a VRMMORPG vibe from SAO and the lore/world building mystery from shows like Re:Zero and ... Overlord. I was completely hooked on this show from its first episode and I think most would agree that for a donghua this is some top tier storytelling. Again the animation might be a little wonky at times but the story more than makes up for that. If you are looking for an amazing isekai with cool characters, awesome fights, a VRMMORPG vibe and a story with tremendous world building then you NEED to check out Monster but Wild! Both seasons!!! You won't be disappointed. At least I wasn't.

With the world exposition done in previous season, more stress is being put on the overarching plot of the story.

The crisp feeling of discovering a new world fades bit by bit, and storytelling is in my subjective opinion markedly worse than the preceding season.

With the plot armor of being fundamentally and inextricably linked to the THE mystery of being isekai-ed, our protagonist uncovers new facets of the plot wherever he goes, despite having no real agency to understand it.
Other characters linked to the mystery tend to push the protagonist where he needs to be in order for plot to progress.
It is not a good thing ... in a show where there is a progressing conspiracy of secret to uncover, and it rightly leaves an unpleasant aftertaste.

In a bid to make characters more memorable, majority of them have now been given bargain bin sob story flashbacks, whether the character is freshly introduced or had a role in the first season.
This too isn't very interesting or pleasant to watch.

The worst thing that happened structurally is that the shows battle dynamic shifted from the 'clever MC does the smart thing to win by using his brain' to a milked to death shounen 'OUR BONDS AREN'T WEAK ENOUGH TO BE SUPRESSED BY THE DEMON KINGS TYRRANY!!! LET'S JOIN HANDS AND SHOW OUR FOES THE POWER OF TRUE FRIENDSHIP!' with a sprinkle of dragon ball powercreep ping-pong (think battles that go "-HAAAAH, NOW I'M STRONGER" "-ku ku ku, are you sure, hero?! because HAAAAAAAAAAH!! I'M STRONGERER NOW TOO! KUUKAKAAHAKAKA!").

The core dynamic between characters stays the same, and many things were still done right as well, so it's not all bad, but including the language barrier and 3dcg used...
I would not watch this to the end if this was my first entry to the story,and I probably won't rewatch this either.