i though @Cvit was out of his mind, that the hate this game gets is unjustified, then i actually played, good grief its actually worse.

what you can fix with emulation :
bad voice acting , you can get the undub patch and get a game full of big names in the japanese voice acting.
framedrops , you can get rid of the weird slow downs, if you wanna get experimental you can even bruteforce 60 fps with some patches.
checkpoint system , make your own, abuse quicksave and quickload, the game will cheat on you constantly, cheat on it as well.

what you CANT fix with emulation :
Enemyspawn , whose moron removed the timer in favor of infinite spawning enemies ? motherfucker you can't heal on command like the first game !
balancing , there is no in between, either a room is piss easy or worse than most bosses, coupled with the shittiest checkpoint system known to man, you will get frustrated when the game unfairly decides you can tackle 30 enemies at once that can all stunlock you.
Lenght , the first game works because its a short but sweet trip through rule of cool, not to say i don't like the story in this game but there are levels in this game that add nothing to the story whatsoever, and you combo this with the timer, the enemy spawns, the stunlocks, and then i wonder how you can fuck up so bad a game that had it figured out by the first game.
camera , sounds nitpicky, but in the first game it wasn't a issue cuz you are pratically a TANK in that game, you move slowly and destroy everything, here you move faster, your enemies will flank you, rotate around you AND stunlock you, mind you, you no longer can heal on command, your character while moving faster still moves around like the first game, meaning your enemies have twice the mobillity you have, there is a quick turn button but no button to turn to the side that doesn't take 3 hours, you will take cheap shots, you will take cheap deaths.

how's the story tho ? fucking great, it is the only thing that was properly expanded and i very much liked the new cast, except for spike and the

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''alien subplot'' i though that shit had no reason to be here also spike does little to nothing to make me care about him, the sword guy was very much justified in hating his ass
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overall there was no reason to expand a game like gungrave in this way, the first game is 2 hours long, this game is almost 9 hours long, i spent 30 hours replaying the first game cuz i like it that much, i spent 8 hours playing this game and i'll never open this again in my life, so was it worth it forcing a longer experience ??