SOULLESS. Combat feels awful compared to NMH; with the combination of attacking being way more float-y, stance switching feeling less responsive, and enemies feeling a lot cheaper by being able to just knock you down and keep wailing on you if you get hit by some uninterruptible attacks, it just sucks the fun out of the game. The few good bosses are only alright, and are only really notable because they stand above everything else in the game. The side jobs completely miss the point of the original, and because there's no longer an entry fee for ranked fights, they're pretty much useless to do after paying for all of the training at the gym. The gym minigames are lame. People say the soundtrack carries this game but I disagree: there are only really a couple notable tracks - anytime I really noticed the music were in those cases, or when the game just reused music from the first game. There are also significant spans of gameplay where there just isn't any music at all. So much of the game fails to impress and the stale as fuck final boss and lacklustre ending really just feel like a kick in the nuts at the end of it all. At least it's less than half the length of the first game. (according to my playtime at least.)

But also it has the Jeane minigames and it's awesome because of that so nvm.