Navigating the game required the use of fetch quests. Rather than going from start to finish in a specific area for each chapter, you're in a safe location with NPCs or other storyline characters who ask for something (i.e. a book, pickaxe, soda). Once you complete a fetch quest, you might receive another item for a quest or have a location of your map open up to progress in the chapter. 

As you progress, there are areas on the map where you fight enemies, both human and Grimm. Each time you leave and return, they respawn. The purpose of these hunting areas was definitely to complete the objectives, and to also earn money to buy support items. 

The save point locations weren't hard to reach once you knew where they were. My main problem was that if you leave the hunting area to go to a safe area and then lose all of your hearts after going to a new hunting area, you didn't respawn at the safe area you might have reached prior to leaving. Instead, you respawn at the last save point you actually used, making the auto-save feature a moot point.

Another thing I found lackluster was that the safe areas didn't heal your energy bar or restore your hearts. It's in line with the setting that you would technically spend money on resources for your next mission, as a team of huntresses. However, I would prefer not to have to spend it on items both to heal and help out with the missions.

As for the enemies, fighting them felt tedious. I felt like you really needed to get a good feel of where the hitboxes started and ended. For instance, if I were to jump onto a platform waiting for an opportunity to strike the Grimm below me and then jump down, 90% of the time, I would be caught within the hitbox and take damage myself. I don't even think I was within the hitbox, but the game apparently thought so. It definitely made it hard when there were multiple enemies because you would get staggered, and by the time you got out of your stagger animation, the next enemy would be geared up to hit you.