I legit feel this one is much worse than the first. The tank controls are gone, but somehow the controls manage to feel worse: in order to compensate for the bigger levels, Croc speed is faster, which makes the difficult jumps much worse. Also gone are the ability to turn around 180 and the ability to move the camera.

The bigger levels aren't very good either, they don't look bad, but feel very uninspired, while large, they are mostly linear and there is a lot of copy paste and filler between the actual interesting platforming parts. There is also a hub world filled with npcs with annoying voices plus a shop that sells one time use items that you need in order to backtrack and 100% certain levels. Instead of charming, it ends up feeling cheap and generic, as it has neither the simplicity of the original nor the interesting world building of games like Spyro and Banjo.