With how the fans spoke about this one I was expecting something way worse. I did enjoy the amulet system with the devil trigger and the basic gameplay feels tight and responsive.

But yeah the issues come with how easy is it to cheese this game. Pistols made enemies endlessly stagger so in most scenarios you can just stand still and spam the shit out of your guns and you'll be fine. The combat variety with the basic sword and guns feel like a step back from the first game with upgrades that just makes your stuff stronger instead of unlocking new abilities and moves as well as not spicing things up with new melee weapon types like the Ifrit gauntlet from the first game so that felt lazy. Also the level design can get pretty atrocious especially with one of the later ones, this game has one of the most useless maps ever put in a video game which made this torture. The story like the first game is relatively straightforward but it feels less epic and grand than that one. I will give it props for having one of the most badass one liners before the kill I've ever seen in a game lol