It's different. Kind of cool. I didn't find a way to reduce the clicking for crafting and smithing. If it doesn't exist, it might be nice to have, because It's a LOT of clicking to get L3 materials otherwise (maybe buying them is an option, but I never got much gold). And I never figured out what the enchantments did - I mean the names are pretty obvious, but I didn't notice any effect.
Also, found a bug where after reloading where I could no longer travel, so I was stuck and had to restart. Stuck on Shining Beach, and can't travel anywhere - it'll let me select a place, but never move. Not sure it's worth doing all that clicking again unless I overlooked a quicker way to advance.
Edit: Restarted to give it another try. Movement got stuck halfway between two locations. Reloaded, stuck again, can't move off another resource. Not sure what's happening, don't know how to provide a reproduce - but it's a game-breaking bug.