I have one question; Is the silly voice synthesiser for the chat still in the game?
Me and a friend used to play the first Sanctum a bunch, and although the game was really good, the voice was easily the best part. Playing with it and making it sing song lyrics, finding out what words it couldn't pronounce and making it go on drug trips by standing in the slow fields could easily be about a quarter of the time we spent on that game.
It's good to hear the sequel's up to scratch though. I was a little dubious it'd just be like a big expansion to the first one, but finding out about the RPG elements and story bits in this review have swayed me.