I had significantly less fun with this than the base game. The focus shift to making it level based with no metroidvania thing is a good idea, and with that they up the difficulty, which makes sense. However, a lot of that difficulty is not fun to engage with. They upgraded all the enemies to be better versions of the base game, which is fine they were really simple there, but the bubble blowers and the ball throwers feel so bad to play with. The bubbles just go in circles and they are hard to deal with, and the balls just land and go into shotgun blasts, resulting in getting hit with small nearly unavoidable damage. The tiki boss wasn't fun because of the instakill pits that were fun in the dragon boss, but not here. At its core though, is more messenger gameplay so its still fun, it just has more stuff that infuriated me while playing.