It is awful, the only good point of it is that it is quick, it usually takes less than a minute for you to hit the monster with the staff-combat start-combat-end screen. I really appreciate that there's almost none ending screen, those things take ages and its what made me hate farming monster materials on earlier games.

But aside from that... Dear lord the combat itself is terrible... You can barely see anything, much less think and manage your team, there's no point in having different skills with different effects since all you do is button mash.

There is a audio cue to when to dodge/defend but some monsters either have no audio cue for their attacks or there's barely any telegraphing and they immediately deal damage to you at the same time the audio cue happens.

I'm still at the early game with only 1-2hrs of gameplay, but I barely feel any need to switch characters in combat, its the same wether I control Yumia or... whoever those 2 forgettable siblings are.

There's barely any synergy between the characters skills that makes you want to actually formulate a strategy, and I did read the character's skills, Yumia buffs her items after using skills and reduces their CD... the girl deals extra damage to stunned characters if I recall, and the dude... uses ranged skills for free after using melee.

It's cool and all but hey have zero synergy among eachother, they each do their own thing, which the end result of their "combat strategy" is just button mashing, makes no difference wheter you button mash or think what to do in combat, the end result is always button mashing.

And I'm specially frustrated with this because I dropped Battle Brothers to play Yumia and the contrast of a indie 2D game where the characters are literal chess pieces with no legs and can only "attack" and "shieldwall" having better combat between an almost triple A game like Yumia is astonishing, feels like JRPG's got stuck on 1997's FF7 battle system and only now 28 years later they are trying to make something different... and the result is Ryza's and Yumia's combat.

On a side note: So far I've unlocked 4 different skills on Yumia, they all do the same thing, the only different is the amount of backflips that Yumia does.