its a very good refinement of ror1, removing things that make that game feel much slower than it needs to, such as needing to kill every enemy before you can leave the level (which took an immense amount of time in such large levels). the new characters and updates to old characters are quite enjoyable, and many of the new skills are fun to use (with some exceptions that feel weird, like giving sniper a melee attack). new enemy, item, and stage variants are also all good and are more interesting than a lot of the original variants. if you like risk of rain 1, you'll like this, but if you didn't like the core concept/ gameplay of 1 then this probably isn't for you.

finally got 100% steam achievements today and will definitely keep playing after this.