The gameplay and combat are pretty simple but still engaging, the visuals and music are incredible. Similar to the first game, there's hits and misses in terms of storylines, but overall they were stepped up by a lot. Had they given more interesting character depth to some of the evil guys beyond "they magically turned evil or just always have been" with random turnarounds, it could have gone even higher, so take this as being closer to 4 than 5 stars.

In general, this is a really well made successor. And god DAMN the music has hits.