Tonally, I feel like this game loses a lot of what I loved about the first, everything feeling far less grim and grounded, or as grounded as a game about space gunmen collecting power granting items can be, but the absolute achievement that was porting over the gameplay and feel of RoR1 is something that has to be commended.
if i have to choose one place where it really does downgrade from 1, its that where in 1 your character choice and their abilities are always relevant even into looping runs, in 2 after your first loop, the majority of characters become hold M1 and press your other buttons when they get off cooldown.