I think they should embrace its arcade style game design influences a little more. The new game plus just carries on the runes, it should also carry the store upgrades. There are clearly two games to be played here, one where you are basically gathering all collectibles and upgrades and getting to know everything about the levels, and another play through where you are fully upgraded and wants to be as effective as possible in the missions. That teleportation ability should have minimal cooldown. There are some intermission sessions between levels in the boat that add nothing to the game, and there are too many things to read that also don't add much. Even though the art direction is superb, I think the better graphics create some busier visuals that make it hard to spot some enemies or items compared to the first.

Overall it's excellent, and is totally recommended, but I don't think it is better than the first.