short and sweet with a nice look and sound. i think this one is the one in the franchise where it starts to settle into having its own personality, lore and detach itself a bit from its inspirations; not to say its not somewhat derivative but its derivative in that way that makes it fun to look at the things you can recognize its taking inspiration from and it differentiates itself enough to be its own thing.
i will say the soundtrack of the first game is, in my opinion, better, but for everything else Momodora 2 is just the better game. one of those sequels that just does more and does that "more" better.