It's rare that singleplayer game that is this long nails the pacing, but somehow they managed to do it. There is just one area ironwood that kinda halts the pacing but outside that this just feels like a grand adventure with immaculate pacing.

At the core it's still the same game as the previous one but it's just bigger and better all around.

There is sadly one con with the game and it is that there is no way to turn your companions quiet while doing puzzles and traversing. So you will run to moments when your companions will solve a puzzle for you or keep repeating where you should go next when you didn't ask for them.