(Review given after 100% achievement, roughly 16 hours)

A tips for better story experience but contains level spoiler : If you reached a level called Pillars of Creation which you starts with the motorcycle, better go find online walkthrough of it otherwise you would spend hour getting lost in a badly designed open-world map and probably lost the motivation to continue playing the game.

I liked the first game a lot and I actually think GR2 improved some stuffs. Movement tech in GR1 is still applicable and they added blocking and tons of assisting skills which seems aim towards casual players, also the boss fight is so much better and fun compare to GR1. If you are new to Ghostrunner series I think it's still worth a try. If you already played GR1 you'll see some positive about it also more problems about it.

The Story is so John Cyberpunk you might as well just ignore it. The millennial dialogue is painfully cringe where the conversation is barely based on any character background but more like a bunch of college students trash talk each other.

GR2 added so much things that are either not helping with the identity of Ghostrunner's gameplay or even conflicting with it.
It has some Free Roam map with nothing worth exploring and just serve as making your objectives farther from each other, not to mention the terrible level layout that makes it notoriously bad among the community. That one map does everything WRONG and there's nothing redeemable about it.
New enemies don't feel fun to fight at all and sometimes even felt random (they did made Warden from the first game better tho)
FPS spike occurs and bug still happens, a lot areas felt so unpolished.

I didn't give negative review because it's a bad game, It is fun to me. But they went to a really wrong direction while developing the game. Sadly it's probably better if they remove whatever they added into GR2 and just focus on fixing the issues GR1 had and it'd be a much better game.

The first GR was fast, snappy, and really made mastering it super fun. Dying and trying again wasn't that big of a deal, as you can just go right back to it.

What happened here?

Nicer gameplay, but a poorly optimised package makes it disorienting at times. The better animations lead to everything feeling slightly less snappy, and combat encounters being less fun at times.

It also has the 'open-world' concept of a Bethesda title, slowing down the pacing a tad. And the upgrade system feels a bit too simplified, as it doesn't give you the freedom and puzzles of the first GR.

I wish I liked the gameplay here, but with how the graphical fidelity really hurt the performance, this didn't really cut it for me.

Back to dumping another 20h into the first GR!

Light 7 /10