Has anyone played it so far?

I have. It's really different from the previous final fantasy games. Especially the battle system. It's really hard to explain the battling system without making it sound confusing. :lol: It's almost like a mixture of a Real Time Fighting system and a Turn Base fighting. It kinda reminds me of the battle system in X-2, only you can move around as you wait for the attack gauge to fill up. I've played only the 'stratedgy'/'beginner' part, though. The other part may be a bit more difficult since it doesn't pause as you work with the menu options during the battles. The camera is weird, IMO. But, Square has time to fix it- I believe. I did enjoy playing the demo though. The graphics look great for a demo, too.

Now, I really can't wait for FFXII to get released. ;)

I would play this except I dont want my wait for FFXII to come out be even worse. I heard about it for soooooooo long and its already killing me knowing its going to come out like in summer. if i played the demo, i would go nuts! :ermm:
I also don't play this because I already know its going to be good. I just want everything to come as a suprise to me. I've avoided reading previews of it so that I have NO idea what kind of game it is :lol:

I wanted to check out the battle system. See how much it differs from the other FFs, ya' know? I like the battle system so far. It's refreshing to see something new, especially in FF. I finally played 'active' mode and it's pretty cool. Really hectic since it's harder to come up with a plan to defeat all the monsters. Unlike the other FFs, it's harder to play all your characters during battle. In previous FFs, everyone usually goes in order and their little menu pops up with all the commands. Kinda different now. You able to choose commands for different character in whatever order you want. But it's harder to do this in active mode- so I recommend playing 'wait' mode until you get used to the controls. When the game is released of course. The camera is kinda crappy in my opinion. I really hope Square intends to use the shoulder buttons to control the camera instead of the right analog stick and has a 'first person view'. I was trying to look at the boss from below the ledge and the camera was just annoying. Lemme see the T-Rex, Dammit! <_< Oh, and sometimes the monsters just generate randomly. I was fighting a group of two enemies and another one just popped up and joined the battle. :huh:

I havent played it cause am in England :ermm: we MAY get the trailer like...a day before FFXII comes out :P from the video's and everything i read on the FFXII.net forums it looked a good demo, reminds me of FFXI a little and the controls look really easy to use and understand, hope we get the demo...

I want the game >.< the new trailer on ff12.com was so spiffy!