I went into this game having not played the first, so I didn't have any particular expectations. I enjoyed the gameplay loop as something I could kind of just zone out and enjoy, and worked on the quests along the way as they happened to show up, though a lot of it is RNG. As other reviews have said the ending was disappointing. The difficulty and damage applied to you ramps up suddenly, and even if you own all the upgrades and play on the casual difficulty it's very difficult to avoid attacks. If you die you have to do the whole sequence over again; a checkpoint would have helped here as I believe once you commit to the ending sequence the timer no longer matters. I ended up using God mode to finish the boss. I also went on to 100% the game, since I was already very close at the end, but you do kind of have to hope the right rooms show up in the run.