So, anyway, from all I've heard so far... well, I just have to get this out of my system first...
When I heard that Fate goes to "save" Nanoha and gets drained herself, it reminded me of this scene from Simpsons:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...BC4KHx8#t=282s
Heh, anyway, her promise doesn't seem to mean much, and since she's still callin' herself Testarossa, we lose out on her acceptance into her family. Those things, arguably, were more important to Fate's character than her dream sequence.
Sounds like lots of beam spam and techno lasers, so it definitely carries on the first movie's "flash" factor; just little substance, given how much it drops and then how much it rushes what was left in.