Looks and sounds exciting, I'm eager to try it out

I never played 1.0 either but I watched the "Story so far" videos on Youtube.

Disappointing to hear there's still little to no voice acting, as that really grated on me with the 1.0 videos - apart from the like 3 or 4 lines in the entire main story that are VA'd, everything else is in text boxes. This wasn't bothersome in older FFs as you didn't expect it anyway with the technology of the time. But when everything is so realistic looking, I want to hear voices (if not for all the NPCs, at least the important ones). What makes it feel really weird is that all the other sound effects are there, so someone is talking in one of the videos and waving their arms around, and there are all the shuffling and material rubbing noises but no words coming out. It's just really odd. Or someone will suddenly laugh or sing and you think "where did that come from". I hope they can work on that.