A visible improvement over the first game.. What would be a pretty generic fighter cashing in on the Street Fighter craze like the first game was is made its own by its creativity in characters and movesets. The characters in Power Instinct 2 are something that could only be done in this newborn fighting game heyday, when people haven't wholly commodified all the typical fighting game playstyles to fall on to. It's not at all balanced, the cpu opponents are brutally difficult for no reason (like they literally read your inputs and respond the exact frame, it's bullshit), and beyond the characters there's not much separating itself from it's numerous contemporaries, but it's a good time to play casually nonetheless.