I enjoyed my playthrough of the first one but it was very 'old school' warts and all. Story, characters, dialog options were great but the actual combat was passable at best. This is the area that will need some polish/improvement for me to get the next one.
My only complaints from the first was that it was really short and the lack of diversity in the planets/enemies. Felt like the game had less than 5 different targets to shoot at
Other than that, I loved it. Charmed my way through the game