I'm not really happy with how this is turning out, but then again, I haven't really been happy about Ys for a while now. I didn't enjoy Ys7 much compared to the previous games, and I don't have a Vita so I didn't bother with YsC. Now they've announced a brand new Ys for both Vita and PS4 and it looks... like the same shit. I don't like the party system. I don't like how Falcom uses full 3D graphics filled with dated HDR effects and bloom, I don't like the emphasis on fighting big monsters with party combos.
I just want a game where you control just Adol again, you have a range of moves and mobility, and you get to explore a big world mostly at your own pace, progressing alone, gaining new equipment and abilities unique to just one character, and fight boss battles with emphasis on movement, patterns, evasion, and then striking at the weak point, instead of spamming party combos and stuff.
I guess that's too much to ask from a developer whose conservative ability to shit out the same game every year to the accolades of fans is second only to the Yazuka team at Sega.