The pre-battle load time is about 1 second which isn't bad at all. The game does do a camera shift at the beginning and the end of each round, then there's an after battle victory screen which takes a couple seconds, then a one to two second load to get back to the map. It's noticeable but wasn't really annoying for the 15 minutes I played. Graphics are decent enough, music seems good. Unless I don't like the rest of the game I can live with it easily enough.