I really wanted to like this game better than the first one, but I did not.

Ok, first let's talk about the new:

You can play as a girl now.
That's it. 

Everything else is just the same; in fact, I think this one might be even more repetitive than the first. The story makes you travel all around the world, yet you are fighting the same four guys over and over again. They did not take advantage of the unique setting of each country, and it feels like such a missed opportunity. If you get rid of the backgrounds, you are basically just playing the first level for over an hour and twenty minutes.

Gameplay is also the same, so there are no improvements whatsoever. 

P.S. Maki is cute, though.