There was space to unpack the bad there. The gameplay was some of the most generic imaginable, coming as a sequel to one of the most original games of it’s generation, the plot was a mess, the characters are poorly written (spend the whole game hyping up two of them seeing each other for the first time since the original, then when it happens, there’s barely a conversation? What a strange choice), there wasn’t much to like.

Like, it wasn’t merely “I loved the original and this didn’t meet those expectations” it was “this is not a good game”