I do genuinely love some of the environments and a couple of the boss/enemy designs, but overall this does feel like a much blander experience than the original. Enemy types feel reused from the first game and stretch themselves pretty thin, despite having largely new sprites. Maki and Carlos are also really boring characters, though I guess that's forgivable since I only ever wanted to play as Haggar in the first one too.
and the enemy variety seems lacking compared to first as well