Nope, it's not the same thing, it's faster, tougher and better that the first game. It is just like the old Ninja Gaiden games, you need to recognize the attack patterns of the enemies and adapt your own attack and defence to defeat them. It's not a button mashing affair either, even in the normal difficulty setting it requires to be played with some skill, now try to survive just button mashing in Mentor or in Master Ninja and even a group of two foes will kill you easily in no time. NGII is not a cheap game, it's just as challenging as the old school games of the series.
If you defeat the Armadillo fast you don't have to deal with it's second attack pattern for much time until it's dead. On the other hand, if you keep running and attacking from afar, the boss fight will be lenghty and harder. And about the explosion... well, it was fun the first time, mostly because it was unexpected, just beat the turtle again and try to do something to avoid the explosion. It's even more fun when you have to kill two of them later in the game.
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