There are a lot of improvements over the original game here. At the same time there is a HUGE downgrade in the "Rancher" part of the game. In that it is now completely unnecessary to do... In the previous game, there was a need to have a huge amount of money to unlock stuff, which gave ranching a purpose. That's just.. not here. So the game feels more like just wandering around unlocking parts of the world and looking at the pretty slimes and graphics.

Still a great game, but it just doesn't have what made the first game so special to me... maybe when the game is fully released they will address that issue.