That's basically my line of thought too. I found everything up to Lambert's death to be pretty enjoyable, and his death was done well emotionally too, but the build-up afterwards just didn't feel significant. I didn't get that sense of urgency regarding the situation, and it didn't help that the mechanism of the destroyed machine was left largely unexplained.
I wish Flynn had got to keep Nylen's sword. It seemed to sway the favouritism towards Yuri (who I wasn't particularly fond of).
I liked Rita a lot on the other hand, and was completely oblivious to the twin's different bust sizes until they spelt it out.