I tried giving this game a full play-through, but I guess the developers just want to prank my ass by making the sequel to one of my most cherished indie games an unfocused mess with the "wacky psychedelic aesthetics and random humor" dial turned up beyond 11 for no real reason.

I really enjoy the soundtrack at least, Chris letting Cazok and Stewart Keller take over songwriting was a good call given how much I LOVED Cazok's contributions to the original game. But even the great soundtrack is marred by the fact that in trying to make unique songs for every fodder enemy, most of the battle tracks I've heard end up being sub 1-minute loops and feel like unfinished drafts. Just a lot of wasted potential considering those short loops still have some great riffs.

Like, power to the devs to play a prank on my ass by making me sit through an unskippable, 150+ text box rant by the late real-life botanist/psychedelic drug activist Terrance McKenna. Hell, have VideoGameDunkey as a cameo for some stupid ass reason I guess complete with an awful original showtune ass theme song, but ♥♥♥♥ like that just makes me cringe and turned me off from this game so hard after already struggling to stick to the game to begin with.

Its not that its a bad game, its just that its not the same as the first i was expecting more story based on the first game which it wasn't at all, the focus on the rpg aspect and comedic aspect kind of ruined the game a little ofc the first one had comedic aspects but it was serious when it needed to be and actually had a story to it, this one focuses TO much on the comedy, i guess if you want story play the first one if you want comedy play this one however i personally don't recommend it if your like me coming from the first one expecting it to be a sequel to it

I like how different it is. People are way too harsh, it's not like this game is completely unrelated to the first.
And the music is better than the first in my opinion.