Infidels Mistrust Mmm.

I disapprove of bashing in advance, very strongly.

Ah, I stumbled across this here in the thread you linked to:

When you have a franchise as popular as the Final Fantasy series, it’s not a common practice to change the formula; especially when you’ve sold almost 60 million units worldwide. Amazingly enough, Square Enix has gone ahead and done just that with its second drastic departure from the typical FF formula in two years, Final Fantasy XII;
I often hear this. You know, the two opinions on this matter: "Never change a winning system", which means the complaints that go on as soon as you change anything from the concept, like the battle system, the magic system, add voice acting or other stuff.
Then, the complaints that you get if you do NOT change things, because that’s seen as money-making, uncreative copying oneselves’ own work, and evil.

Change something – people complain. Change nothing – people complain!
What to do? ;_; Poor Squexies.

One of the big things about FF is that commonality of gameplay style. What makes each FF new and fresh is the plot and, usually, just the change in how abilities/magic is acquired, and how and if that is linked in with Equipment or Items, etc. But I play FF because I like turn based style combat. However, this new combat system sounds like those very dire systems you get in really rubbish games you rent once, just to see what they’re like, and promptly never play again. Nothing wrong with the lack of random battles, but the system, well… I will reserve judgement until I play, but I would say mmm is pretty reputable source. =/

This was in a comfy chair with big headphones on a big screen – probably the closest I was going to get to playing it at home.

This was a long play.

But there is absolutely nothing I can say about this. Other than: "Hm. I’m curious how I will like it."
I can’t form an opinion yet, and knowing yours changes nothing. 😉

Plus… maybe stuff’ll still be changed here and there, until the final release… I’m not going to form an opinion before playing the game, after having bought it, etc…

*sips her tea*

He’s a wannabe.