And yes, it's still Star Wars. It has Star Wars spirit and so on. I've liked new characters, especially Rey.
And Kylo Ren isn't your typical Epic Powerful Dark Lord of Darkness. He's weak, almost pathetic, trying to be worthy of mantle of his grandfather and expectations of Snoke and dramatically failing in that. Even he himself realises that, so he releases his frustration on some unimportant tech. And that's good, that's new, that's the Dark Side we've never seen.
But I can't forgive terrible script. So... an important Good Guys Organisation figure with piece of important information is about to be captured by Bad Guys Organisation. He decides to hide information in his loyal droid and release him on sandy planet, while giving himself in to Bad Guys Organisation to cover droid's escape. Later Main Hero meets said droid, while Evil Guys Organisation tries to find said droid on sandy planet, eventually destroying place, where Main Hero lived and so on...
Remind me, where I've seen that?
Also, I can't believe in such change in Big Three.
So... Luke's apprentice decided to turn evil and Luke did what? Runs to unknown place to meditate for 20 years? That's not Luke I knew.
Leia and Han's son turned evil cause of granddaddy issues so they just gave up on him and their relationship?
May I remind you, that in EU they've lost their youngest son to war, then their elder son turned evil and almost conquered the galaxy and then their daughter killed their son. And in the process not Han, nor Leia never gave up on their ideals and family. That's the Han and Leia I knew.
New Han decides to throw everything away and get back to smugglers life. He's someone else.