Just finished The World God Only Knows S3, and I have to say I quite enjoyed it.
Was initially worried that it'd be like S2, but the animators figured out that wasn't the right thing to do, made things different and even mixed in an overall plot.  Well, the plot wasn't particularly great on its own, however, despite being serious in degree, is generally not focused on too much; I quite liked how they stayed true to their roots of being a comedy/romance and sidelining the plot to something beyond the scope of the main focus.
Also, the plot serves as much better filler than the stuff they put in for the first two seasons.
The change of pace was really welcome, however they had to skip some of the story to accomodate it into the third season.  As such, some of protagonist's conquests lose a bit of impact, since you haven't seen their backstory (unless you read the manga).  Actually, considering how they allocated the time and didn't give more than one focused episode on most of the girls, it cheapens the arcs a fair bit, although I never really felt that convinced in the original two seasons anyway.  Despite the change of situation, it still retains much of the basic structure of the first two seasons (each girl having an arc, mostly being unrelated to each other except for the "common route" at the beginning), which has its pros and cons, and arguably this is intentional.
There's also a few seeming bits of questionable logic, especially on the part of the bad guys, although you can say they somewhat accounted for this.  (Lune seems to be the only character from the evil side with half a brain)
The final episode rounded things up fairly well.  After episode 11, I was wondering how they'd tie up all the plot elements well in just one episode - I quite like the way they prioritised what was actually crucial to the show as opposed to the story.

Overall, they manage to mix a number of elements in quite well to make it enjoyable.  The main problem with this is the lack of focus* on any particular thing in great detail, but considering only 12 episodes, I think they've done a good job.
* well, most of the time at least

Edit: heh, so much for a "quick review"

(This post was last modified: 24/09/2013 05:27 PM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)