DC suffers from many issues beyond it's highly awful repetitive nature which -to be honest-is normal for this sort of games, first the story is shit they didn't even try, this is Vanillaware and story should be something even if small but no they dropped the ball here and made the entire thing less interesting, now the core gameplay , while there are tons of attacks and skills and powers fighting enemies is just not that fun, it's like playing shooter with badass shootguns versus bland cardboard Nazis, and it's very highly unbalanced since for all the class early skills make you overpowered as fuck (I guess because they want you to replay forever with hard mode or whatever but for first play-through this is a huge mistake), continue to the level design, I don't like Murumasa but those level were beautiful..now here? generic crap level that bored me to tears same with the music in this big turd, I mean what the hell just happened to Vanillaware? it's like they focused too much on the fighting system and forget absolutely everything else.
it's just sad that Vanillaware who made fantastic games like Grim Grimoire and the amazing Odin Sphere now made awful games like Muramasa and Dragon's Crown, the studio clearly have problems and need to learn from fans feedback or get a new director on board.
but funny enough, it's one of the Vita games I have that my coworker didn't want to "try for few days" after seeing it in the office.