Yep. The stages are really nicely designed. This being a Neptunia game, they're reused a fair bit, but different arrangements of enemies or taking a different party of characters into battle can force you to change your strategy somewhat.

I'm pleased that there seems to be a variety of objectives, too; all too many strategy games rely almost exclusively on "Defeat all enemies!" as an objective. Here, however, we have turn-limited stages with objects to destroy, team-based missions where you have to get more kills than an AI opponent, stages where killing a specific character ends the mission… I'm very impressed so far.

Pity, as you say, so few people outside of the existing fanbase for this type of thing will ever pay it any heed!