Yeah.. I just didn't know how to write this review. Looking at reviews elsewhere, no one else seems to have been completely certain either.
Specially the fighting system - it's what you will spend most of the time with after all. And it's very original and interesting, no doubt about it. But actually describing it.. :/ "yeah, and it's really good, you know. All game-y and.. good...? You know? Right..?" lol. Doesn't work.
..I was wondering about making it about "old jrpgs against new jrpgs", but I didn't in the end.
Or maybe trying to make it part of the way you move in hexes around the game, and zoom to in and out from the map overview to the small battlefields? ..didn't really work either.
So I think I ended up deliberately not describing the fighting system because of that. Very glad you got something out of this, though :D
(btw - I have not signed up on the "no feedback list". Anyone, feel free to drunkenly or soberly criticise the review as much as you'd like).