Amazing!
Overall the game has alot of Japanese text. It may be confusing at first but you get used to everything over a short time playing.
The beginning opens up very well with alot of amazing visuals. The game itself is very colorful. And is refreshing. One thing that stood out to me from the SNES versions was the battle system. In CoM it's alot faster, quick battles, in the older ones they had to wait a second to pull out the weapons and to me it just seemed annoying going from place to place constantly pulling out the weapon in each area. But in CoM You enter an area and your weapon will always be out which makes for quick but very enjoyable battles.
The story may be hard to understand at first but you can slowly catch on to whats going on. And menus, but you catch onto the Japanese symbols as well which could help for other imports in the future.
If you don't want to wait for the US release then I would suggest importing CoM.