A Realm Reborn BETA Impressions

[Aulayna]

Also, in relation to your post about the amazing Prelude theme for character creation, Squeenix have released a demonstration of the Alpha version of character creation which has the accompanying music. And yes, it's incredible

I completely forgot about that video. It even has the female voices I mentioned xD

A nice idea for new players, that could help with your first complaint: When selecting a class, let the player battle dummy mobs at level 50. Then once they are happy they could continue on to begin the game (and the subsequent cutscenes). I think it'd be nice to see what job you'd like to level up first, and avoid your first complaint (which I think is completely valid unless you're dead sure on your starting class).

Yeah that'd be cool. Or even a sort of flashback scene to the Calamity at the end or 1.x where you just take part as someone on the battlefield in a sort of "combat tutorial"