One of my main complaints would be that the narration lacked the witty humor of its predecessors, and veering into the "third person" territory put me off completely. Putting aside the fact that the narrators voice annoyed me to begin with, what I didn't appreciate was how she inserted personal (non-game) commentary. For instance, when Gram examines the chest drawers, she says something like "notice, dear reader/player, that I did not say that myself" or "this is my shameless self-promotion, ha! -insert website here-". THAT self-promotion thing, even though I know the game is supposed to have humor, I did not find this in the least, funny. It was also at this point that I turned off the voice, choosing to play with just the subtitles.
As Flubly mentioned before me, having objects being described from the main character's (Gram, in this case) Point of View connects better with players to immerse them into the game. The bordered the line for me on this one, as most of the comments that they wanted to convey were based around what Gram was thinking/feeling - in the end, it felt over-done and left me with the feeling that it could have been done much better.
Plus, I kind of thought that the narration in past KQ games seemed to relate more to the game itself or the "current situation", meaning that everything you read (or ones that went into detail) always seemed to deal with a future puzzle to solve. Sometimes the commentary would help to paint a small picture of the history or atmosphere. In this case, it seemed to focused on the past, didn't really tell you about the "current state of things" atmosphere wise (as we already knew that the isles were in a tragic state, this didn't so much "move the story forward" as it did "annoy me off by telling us how Gram was upset OVER and OVER again").
I think that if the creators tried to model the next few "episodes", in terms of narration after past KQ games, they might get a better response. More humor, less "useless stories" - or make it shorter- and, well, I would like a male narrator. I liked the one in KQV and VI the best.
Anyways, all this is just my opinion, so, don't get mad at me. >.<''