So... much... quicker. I can't even tell you. It was terrible having to abandon all the work I did on the CC version, but how much better both C2 is and I am at using it has made it worth it, as progress way faster than the first version and it's so much smoother working on it. Most of the game hasn't been this quick, but recently I coded something in two hours that originally took me a month. o_O
Currently the battle system is up and working, most of the abilities have been implemented, got the town and npcs talking, cinema scenes working... I'm not quite at the point of all the rest of the work being content yet (which is still a whole lot of work), but it's getting relatively close to that.
Considering what a crawl it was working on the CC version, I'm actually wondering if it will be faster this way to have restarted from scratch than it would have been to finish the CC version.