I quite liked and was surprised with the first Mario Rabbids, enough to be excited for the follow up here. Don't get me wrong, I played the full game and basically did a 100% run. It was engaging, commanded me to play more, and had improvements from the first in terms of combat. By those metrics this was a "good" game. However most of my playthrough felt less like I was having joy, and more like I was doing work. The fun here is in the battles. Not the overworld. Not the platforming puzzles. Not the story. Definitely not, and never will be, the rabbids. I actually don't know why I stayed committed through to fully 100%, because when loading back up the original I think that would be my recommendation out of the two games.