I think this is an improvement over the first game. It shares the totally miserable enemy placement that brought the original down most of all, but as a whole it looks better, sounds better, and it feels like a game you can learn. This one is very gimmicky, it likes to fuck around with your movement a lot, but there's some things to actually learn and figure out here in comparison to the first game where you just go along and hope you don't get killed by birds. I guess since the birds are still an issue it's just more problems depending on who you ask, but I think it makes this one more interesting. I can definitely see finding this one worse, but I don't know. I prefer this.