Never played Carnage Heart, so I can't really compare. Overall, it's okay. It's a little frustrating right now to get to do what I want it to do because I don't have the proper gambits, so I have to manually handle some of my stuff. Once my number of gambits expands, I'm sure it's going to become more interesting. Right now though, it's a little convoluted (notice a theme?) if I want to do something simple like "Cast protective spells on everyone." But I suppose once I have more gambits, skills and spells it'll get really cool because I'll be able to specialize my tactics for each boss. It's not leaping out as the coolest thing ever yet, but it's not bad or a detriment to the game.