What game are you into playing?

It starts really, really slow. After about 3 hours it really starts to open up though. You only control 1 character, but can dictate how members of your party fight with the new system. It generally works pretty good, and you switch to different paradigm (the name of the system) styles on the the fly for the whole team. So battles are less about what attacks you're choosing, but switching between these styles depending on the enemies you're facing, buffs and debuffs you need to use, healing that needs done, etc. It works well considering the fast paced action.

Character skills and progression are very linear, and some may see this as a good thing or a bad thing. I like the fact I could choose what direction I wanted to go in in FFXII, but I disliked the fact that it was pretty unnecessary since you'll learn everything anyway, and pretty much made classes and managing your party unnecessary since everyone could learn all the most vital skills and magic pretty early on. I'll hold my final judgment on FFXIII's progression when I've played more than the 5 hours in I am atm.

 

Thoughts on Vanille?

 

Yeah, agreed with all of that. They've done Hope well, despite him being a little bit of a bitch. They need a bitch character though, so whatever.

Vanille would be much more likable if she didn't have the most bloody dialog. It seems she does so far anyway, so it's a bit of a pain. I don't mind her character tho, just how much she's talking.