The gameplay is improved upon the first because some characters that i felt were kinda janky in the first now feel much better, like Roberto and Roy, my complaints are about the double specials still being a bit repetitive, and they also repeated the thing when a male is paired with a female and it's still useless, the triple special is a good addition, but they could work in different ways depending on which character you're controlling is activating. Even with this, it's really really good and probably has my favorite aesthetic from the fighting games i've played, alongside SFIII 3rd Strike, the thing just looks really stylish in everything