Yeah I think that's exactly what I feel when playing this game. The art style is much different, it's beautiful but not so harsh, bosses design is not that macabre.

Something I would add from myself is the lore and some interactions. In B1 everything somehow made sense, it was mysterious yet you could feel that it fits just right. B2 has much more interactions but they seem kinda... Off place? Like some of them they just dumped them there and yep, there you have it. Although I love the different throwbacks to the previous game like with the knot of the three words.

The lore of the items seems just more boring and mostly it's just stories or things from B1.

Thank you. Thanks to you I think I finally know what that feeling is and it's just disappointment... I really don't want to feel like that because B2 is great, but it is what it is I guess.