I really enjoy the lore and setting. I even enjoyed the combat sometimes. But first impression is, man, the main character designs are so lame. Bigger issue still, is the pacing - many times I feel the multi-media approach to the story hurts the overall experience. It would have been great to play some of those events that lead up to the actual beginning of the game. Y'know, like a prologue. I also think some linearity was needed. The grand openness and incentive to wander around and quest stripped the game of any agency. Nothing felt dire. It felt like a vacation. Most egregious is how much contemporary culture pollutes the fantasy aspect - cell phones, selfies, product placement, NPCs all break the immersive experience I long for in a Final Fantasy game. Don't we see enough of this shit in real life that we want to get away from it?