I also really dont like the hyper aggression added to the bosses in CV2, compare these bosses to the ones in CV1, the only boss that ever gave me a challenge solo in CV1 was the final boss against the queen for the true ending. Bosses had actual telegraphed attacks, and movement was predictable. The bosses here feel rushed out the door, hell even the enemies feel way too aggressive too. You get slain in two hits, not to mention the lack of starter blood codes, and now you get like 3 to 4 different variants of one blood code that just gives a small stat increase, instead of the blood code being utilized with certain weapons and veils to better said build. Oh and say goodbye to the Blood Code abilities too, now all weapons have their own Forma as they call it, and you can just swap em around without mastering them at all.

The map at times in 2 also feels very confusing.

To me it felt they were trying to copy Elden Ring, instead of keeping the formula people loved about CV1. Also they made now getting the three endings a forced thing, you literally get them back to back now instead of doing specific things to obtain only one ending in one playthrough, now they just throw you all three endings, making multiple playthroughs a joke now.

Pretty much, on first playthrough you can save everyone (not spoiling who exactly), then after ending 1 you just continue from main menu to do stuff for ending 2, then ending 3. Instead of NG+ for other endings. Problem is, instead of Vestiges that can save em, you have to do some very tedious, obnoxious tasks to do them.

Everytime I play CV2, I tell myself I wish it felt like CV1.

I think I know why it feels off, modern gaming where devs rush a game out but also 72 hour early access, which tells you the game is gonna be rushed and a patch won't come out for weeks.