Fresh, different, brilliant
I didn't have time to play it far (2 first battles) but I got a very good impression of it.
Voice actors are great, Sonny's accent makes him a bit more alive as a character.
One thing that boggers me is that the cutscene / dialogue sync isn't working well with low graphics. Sound goes in advance and they finish the talking a lot before the text has gone through the dialog. This happens in the cutscenes and battle dialogues as far as I played. The skip button is cool :)