the busywork gets ridiculous (tho it isnt terribly hard to get all the chadley intel done), the minigames get tiresome, and chapter 13 is waaaaaay too fuckin long and filler-ridden for its own good.

that said - the music is superb as always (Go All Out Stamp and the arena rap being some highlights), the combat is even better than the first's, and the character writing is as impeccable as it was before.

some of the story is a bit eyerolling, and one plot thread is stretched way thin and has tens of hours between beats. counting myself ive seen three separate interpretations of the ending which is pretty impressive.

also that mind-flayer VR mission might be the absolute worst thing to put in this gameplay style. the ai in this game is not good enough to have a mission where you have to babysit your partners from constantly shifting aggro to adds instead of the boss