My brother was kind enough to get the game for me and I played a couple of hours today...
Amazing... If you are a fan of Final Fantasy you will love this game.
Its a bit odd that it is more like a very long movie with travelling in between and fighting. The fight scenes are limited at first but thankfully it opens right up with more options and abilities and I like the pardigm shift.
I would say that for every 5 minutes of walking around and fighting you get about 8 minutes of cut scene stories.
I strongly suggest people playing it and the story line is really good so far. My only complaint is the similarities that some of the "good" guys and "bad"guys names makes it kinda confusing who or what is the bad guys.