The epitome of missing the point.

Travis' character is pitifully written, where the original clearly paints him as a pathetic loser that thinks he's cool, the sequel ditches this in exchange for an explicit player fantasy where he canonically gets the girl and sheds some blood in the name of revenge for a character that really wasn't given much depth prior.

The gameplay is barely an improvement to the first, as every boss fight devolves into walking away and baiting them to attack, because if you play hyper-aggressively they'll dodge ad infinitum.

At the very least, the music still bangs, but I can't really give it much outstanding praise outside of that.