What’s the consensus on blasphemous 2?

I absolutely loved the first game. My experience with it was that it was borderline perfect, and it’s now one of my favorite indie games ever. So naturally, I jump right into the second one. There’s not any one specific thing that I don’t like about the second one so far, it’s really a bunch of little things that’s overall making me just not enjoy playing it. I feel like the exploration aspect is definitely there and even better than the first game so far. The art style of the cutscenes changing so drastically that it now looks like a fan made anime is definitely something I don’t like but I wouldn’t say it detracts from the experience in any major way. I think the main issue I have is a bunch of little quirks in the gameplay that I didn’t have trouble with in the first one or if I did it was very very minimal. Few examples:

the addition of new weapons seems like a fun idea but I feel like abilities like the thrust and the parry/counter and downward thrust being exclusive to one weapon makes it feel like a chore to switch between them since I liked to use a mix of all of these abilities in the first game.

Not being able to jump and swing up at the same time.

The fervor bar gets blocked so much quicker now, I’ve died twice and my fervor is more than halfway blocked off now.

The dual sword weapon does so little damage that i can’t use it without taking twice as long to kill an enemy.

I just feel like overall the gameplay is not balanced and it feels like that can maybe be attributed to more stuff being added that may or may not work with this type of game. I just loved the first blasphemous so much and the skill progression and completely fine the way it was. For me it feels like they tried to add more complexity to a system that didn’t need it. What is everyone’s thoughts on this and does anybody have any tips for how to play this game cause I’m just not having a good time at all lol