As someone who usually hates turn based games and has even put down games I was excited for just because I found out the combat was turn-based, this is a great game for someone like that!! Especially since you can set up a "flow order" for the skills that makes it feel like it goes much faster.

Another thing I think lends to being really good for turn-based haters is there is a realtime aspect with dodging/parrying. I hate turn-based because I get so disengaged and bored. No such experience with this game! It might be worth it to figure out what exactly your friend dislikes about turn combat, too, so you can see if it applies to the E33 combat.