This feels like more of the same from X1, some aspects better, some worse overall. I liked it about the same just for different reasons, though I honestly would rather play this one more due to being better to start right out the gate. The dash is on by default, most bosses are less of a pain to deal with with some exceptions, wall jump dashing is overall way easier to pull off, a lot of the stages can be pretty fun on their own too. I liked most of the weapons but some like the grabby arm are mainly used to get upgrades and whatnot and not much else. On the topic of upgrades I genuinely wish that upgrades could be less cryptically hidden, it took a while for me to even find most of these eventually. You also face off against X hunters, optional minibosses sprinkled in certain stages you actively need to hunt down and fight, if you beat them you get Zero's parts and if you get all of Zero's parts you won't need to fight him as a boss later on. I didn't end up doing this mainly because once you defeat a certain number of maverick bosses you've basically reached the point of no return and have to fight Zero anyway, I didn't really mind this seeing as how Zero's boss is pretty fun and short so it isn't really a big deal all around. I do wish that you could air dash from a dash jump but you can only do it from a normal jump which kinda sucks. Overall still a pretty solid title.