I like the right analog stick selecting the camera movement. It's defintiely better than KHI, where you had to wait until after the battle, unless you liked dying while trying to set it up so it's easy.

Holding L2 makes it so that the Right Analog stick does menus, also. Having doubles menus was definitely more convenient, and I found it more useful than not, especially Change. Of course the MAIN problem with KHII, is that it was much more button mashing than KHI.

I liked having 4 shortcuts, but I only used three anyways, as I'm too scared to use the O button, for fear it will close my shortcut screen (even though it doesn't and is only open while holding L1). I did develop a painful hatred for the new R1 style, instead of holding R1 to lock on, you simply pressed it, so if I let go and pressed it again, it would de-lock, and I'd wind up attacking something else, which often made me die... many... many times...