Better than the first game for sure, but I swear every zone got progressively less fun and well-designed. Was having a good enough time the first five or six worlds, but Metropolis tested my patience so hard that the rest of the game just didn't have the steam to bring back up. Probably didn't help I played it on PS2, so I had to wait 15-20 seconds each time I died, not wanting a game over. Self-replicating impatience.