I'm unsure why, buy out of most of the games thhey have made, I like the scenes from this one the most. Not sure why. But something made the combat slightly worse versus the last version. Your character is less encouraged to stand her ground, an worse off she can sometimes still do a long range attack, but will almost always instead choose to run closer before firing off her attack. Makes it somewhat frustrating.
Great new scenes though. Like the new building and character add ins (even if it's from another fun game of theirs)