the first game feels much better imo
this game has jank everywhere from dialogue sounding like hot garbage, unnecessary walking segments where you just chat with your group, combat is very hot or miss and new mechanics are added that just clutter the controls instead of adding a new way to optimize your speed
music feels bland, backtracking to pad time, reusing areas, awful mocap for faces and they for eome reason downgraded the upgrade menu that was like tetris in one but now its just another boring menu
also the deflect ability doesn't work
game isn't bad but 1 is just better with less jank and boring sections