I've wondering why this series feels more bland or off compared to the first one and I think a lot of it has to do with it losing its grip on displaying a wide world of crazy martial arts. The previous one, for the most part, was about frequently introducing all these weird martial arts, giving the impression that the world is full of all these bonkers practitioners, all varied
But in this series all of that doesn't matter anymore because it turns out that Worm and Niko are behind everything, everything stems from them somehow and everything is inferior to them and also they're everywhere
Every fight in this series is just a madlibs of WORM NIKO WORM OHMA NIKO VESSEL WORM