>>724762538
A lot of them are redundant but I didn't outright hate them for that.
I think the biggest stinkers for the game were the amount of missable elements like scoops (some of which you have to use for invention like some boss scoops, which as a stupid kid and probably a stupid adult I'd forget about doing) and the post-game where time-travel is disabled making all of that missable as well, on top of an entire dungeon getting deleted post-game as well. At least DC1 set you back to just before the final boss if you wanted to do Demon Shaft and you could even whoop the final boss' ass with chronicle 2.