The Importance of Emotional Impact in Contra Earth

For me, like the drama and the flow of the narrative kind of lost some interest when they moved to what was it called, Contra Earth. I just, it didn't work for me nearly as well. And then where does he end, like the climactic third act with the big showdown with the bad guy and the space based thing? "It just felt like they needed to come up with stuff for all the different characters to do"