Its a real shame because, despite a few bad bumps, the first game was written rather good and overall probably one of the funnest action combat systems in a long time. If they let you kill bow girl instead of her getting away and didn't include last second lesbian I'd call it one of the greats.

Everything about this sequel seems designed both maliciously and poorly. It has made fundamental choices that take away from the things that made the original actually work and standout from the games it copied, and that cannot be coincidence.

All a shame.