Square returns to form. Nearly.
Interesting characters, absolutely stunning music, beautiful art direction, excellent character and monster models, strange new battle system, awesome cinematic camera, good animation, a fully realised dark world. Everything I want in an rpg. Sadly missing from most rpg's these days. The framerate and texture pop issues and load times are over exaggerated in reviews, and hardly matter at all, even without installing it.
It has a very different battle system to a standard jrpg, it's a cross between a normal turn bassed battle system and a stratigy battle system, so don't expect everything you've learnt from other jrpg's you've played to work. Also the timed critical button presses work really well and add to the gameplay alot, the battle goes into slow motion matrix style, it's really cool.
Thank you SquareEnix for making rpg's for rpg players again. To hell with the people who don't appreciate it, the're missing out big time.
Vagrant Story move over, war is here. :D Woooo!