Ok, so I'm about 16 hours into the game, and overall I enjoy it, but I have my complaints.
1) I can never seem to get monsters. They always run away. I don't know if there is a "better" way to do it, or if it is just based on luck.
2) Emil is a wuss
3) I can't walk around as the Characters from the old game
4) they don't tell you how many times you used an arte. It was nice having that in the last game, cause I could easily find my new ones and use them, while now I have to remember all the names of ones I've used before.