This is such an improvement over the first game holy hell
I think the art style for the series might've peaked in this game. Tbh

wow this game was better left in my memory. AI is broken, game doesn't control particularly well, the story mode is more barebones than I remember, and the game overall just is not very fun unless you use cheat codes. hard to believe this is the consensus favorite TM game.
some of the character designs (e.g. Axel) are super cool though