As expected, the changes were bad. good skill animations like concussive blow II and brutal swing II animations now are just covered by the extremely oversized battle effects. What a shame. But its just this dev team pattern...we got:

-Bigger monsters
-Bigger Rank up message
-Bigger battle effects
-Bigger HP/MP/TP gauges
-faster gathering animations (well, faster = when you make speed bigger =P)

Seens like making stuff bigger is the way of them to fix things...so don't complain about lalafells or they might resize them too! ><