"If you mean by alien creatures the little green things that possess the zombies, oh my god yeah."
Those are the exact ones I was thinking of! Honestly, those were probably what I was trying to remember when I was describing those "leech" type enemies. It has been about a decade since I last played MediEvil 2. Those alien enemies were really tough to deal with, though. There was nothing quite that difficult in the first one. Oh, and I remember raging at that last boss, too.

It's too bad we'll likely never see a proper remake of the second game.

I hope you enjoy your time with one of the coolest games ever made. Leon is honestly one of the best protagonists, he's cool, handsome AND has an awesome jacket.

I have a lot of fond memories of MediEvil 2. I hope you're enjoying it! My childhood copy was so overplayed by me that I remember it became unreadable on my PS2 at one point. I like the first game most overall, but 2 has a lot of charm.

And yeah, it is pretty tough, haha. A certain enemy type later on was a real bitch to deal with, because they leech onto you and drain your health iirc. All the stunlocking, too... makes it difficult to maintain charge attacks, where in the first game, that was a non-issue.

Edit: It was those alien creatures that really pissed me off, actually lol. I don't know if you remember those, but they're a pain in the ass to deal with.

Cleared out a lot of junk from the Backlog (stuff that I planned to emulate and just never did; games that were duplicates). Feeling pretty good about the prospect of actually clearing my Backlog these days.

I played the demo and loved it. And my gf ended up surprising me and bought the game, so yay!