I'm not thrilled with the battle system now, the board is ugly and you dont get the full spell casting costs. Also the tiles clear slower. I'm starting to get into it though.
It confuses me however why they took an almost perfect game like the first one and then keep trying to change it. They should really have just made a sequel that was the same as the first but with a new story, items,spells etc.
The iphone version of the first one is actually awesome, they made a ton of improvements. Hopefully they will do the same with this one.