there are cool things added but unfortunately the loss of being able to set allies to manual and keep them on standby to be called as an assist for combos was disappointing especially when characters like nina have moves that would be so good for said purpose. the big areas in which you fight would also fight would also make this awkward even if you could do such a thing. not a fan of how a lot of moves simply don't affect a juggled enemy beyond doing damage and letting them just drop to the ground and not experience knockback is really disappointing. vanguard assaults can be cool but not being to do the manually aimed one at will in combat without awkwardly trying to get every enemy offscreen first is frustrating (and also trying not to accidentally fly out of the fight area and escape in the process)
also, not a fan of losing max AP whenever you get in hitstun, making the game rough on characters who don't get access to no guard's super armor and even more of a pain in boss fights where there's only one enemy where it sucks to try and regain max AP.
I like ray's english VA and the princess is mega cute though I wanna pinch her face