I weirdly enjoy the abridged version of Book 1, the lack of a few characters and chapters is kinda funny because it also forces to move a few units around.

Book 2 was kind of awesome, the surprising difficulty early on + the mixup of unit's availability was cool. New music is great (Big fan of Off to War), and the last few chapters were tough in a good way. Star shards were very cool and the Again staff is unapologetically broken which I love.

Main drawbacks overall are:
- Music in Book 1 kinda sucks
- The arc of the midgame where you only fight dragons was a bit of a slog. Had to stop for a while since it was getting monotonous
- Not crazy about endgame only giving you 2 weapon types to choose from. With minimal exceptions to Bows (4 users in total) and Lances (2 only for indoors)