Art direction, atmosphere, and aesthetics are good as in the previous one. The gameplay is a little more clunky and repetitive, and where the first episode was rather fluid as a puzzle game here the puzzles tend to be more challenging and you die many times before solving them.
Whilst the metaphorical reading of the first one was really simple and effective, here the growing lore makes the narrative side of the game more and more convoluted. I appreciate how it deals with boyhood and adulthood as a space-time loop with no escape, as well as the reflection on mesmerising media through TV.
The rest, and especially the relation between the two main characters, sounds superfluous - it is confusing, overcomplicated, convoluted, and it dilutes the metaphorical and visionary strenght of the game instead of enhancing it.