First replay since the 360 days and I more or less have the same opinion. It really depends what your expectations were going into it. If you’re here for the gunplay, it’s arguably better than the original. If you liked Bioshock for the plot and world building, it’s a clumsy mess of retcons and weak characters that feels like it was made because execs thought “drill man cool”. While it is true that drill man is indeed cool and you can totally rev that shit like it’s Gurren Lagann, it does feel like it’s completely missing the point of the first game. Also, the escort mission was the worst part of the original and repeating it as a main gameplay loop is a bit obnoxious.

That said, it has the inverse progression of the original where it starts out weak and ends on a high note. Delta also feels hilariously OP by the end and it’s fun to just watch hypnotized brutes kill each other while security bots fly around and you just laugh while killing everything else with chain lightning.