I played the demo. Although really it was more of a thematic tech demo. You know all of the mechanics at play here except the magic from Duscae, and they were more interesting in Duscae because you could do more. It's cute to play as young Noct summoning a squeaky toy hammer, but it's not exactly a thrilling combat experience. People are worried about button mashing your way to victory in this game - bear in mind you don't mash, you just hold and it auto attacks!

It picks up at the end with a cool fight with some better stuff and some extra abilities (and an enemy that actually attacks you, which finally means using the defend button). Personally I'm still not sold on the hold for auto attack stuff, but with a good enemy I had fun warping around the place and got close to death a couple of times.

The magic is cool to; you select it like a weapon and have to aim where it goes. It's pretty nice. Not how I would have done it personally, but this isn't a bad alternative. I would have liked to have been able to adjust the strength of the magic though.