Nearly peed into my pants laughing while reading this in the patch notes ...

[Megami017]

Sounds like a quirky yet interesting mini-game.
I've never played 1.0.....so perhaps it's been improved?

Also, as it's a new feature(For non 1.0 players) for some of us, I'm looking forward to the little tutorial/explanation that will go with it.

[Wilan]

Sounds like a quirky yet interesting mini-game.
I've never played 1.0.....so perhaps it's been improved?

The really big problem is that it wasn't much of a mini game; what you saw in those videos were major plot battles, all of which could be completely avoided by doing a clunky bejeweled ripoff.
Which is because of that weird mentality of Tanaka's team that even if you're an humble lumberjack (and I mean, your only unlocked class being Botanist, as you weren't forced to have battle classes in 1.0 at all) you still need to have your shot at saving the world, despite not having any combat skill at all.

If it was its own mini-game, and not something mandatory you had to get through to advance the story, then yeah it probably wouldn't even have been that bad. I laughed at it back in 1.0, but I'm curious to see how it's been reworked.