This has the same problems as the original game, which if anything make the game a lot harder.
Some things have been nerfed but you are still heavily encouraged to exploit op things, unless you want to die all the time.
Actually I think they went out of their way to make it harder at the start of the game and in general there is a bit more of artificial difficulty, like having a sniper while you fight something else in many parts of many quests.
What's new in the game doesn't justify buying it for me when put against the difficulty, but I really liked: some areas like the underwater castle, soul cores and the added customization, the new skill trees.

This has the same problems as the original game, which if anything make the game a lot harder. Some things have been nerfed but you are still heavily encouraged to exploit op things, unless you want to die all the time. Actually I think they went out of their way to make it harder at the start of the game and in general there is a bit more of artificial difficulty, like having a sniper while you fight something else in many parts of many quests. What's new in the game doesn't justify buying it for me when put against the difficulty, but I really liked: some areas like the underwater castle, soul cores and the added customization, the new skill trees.