I agree with Wolf Kanno. I'm not going to get excited just yet over a Famitsu review. I hope however that this game does turn out to show us it deserves the praise it's getting. My major concerns with XIII was it's linearity (obviously), lack of meaningful gameplay, & that there was no interactation with the outside world. Apartently they are trying to tackle these problems & listening to the feedback they have been getting. If XIII-2 can address these issues I'll be over the moon & will buy it on release. If not, I'll have to go back to playing the waiting game.