I've only gotten to the part after the first monster hunt so I'm not very far into the game. But these are my initial impressions.

- Panelo is not annoying me like I thought she would. Yay!
- I like it when people in the game say Vaan's name out loud because it makes me think of Vaughn from Alias and there are few fictional people in this world I love more than Vaughn. Ooh, Vaughn. So yeah. That makes me happy just by association.
- Vayne talks funny. In fact, a lot of the dialogue is weirdly stilted. I can't exactly put my finger on it. It might just be the emphasis placed on certain words that doesn't quite come out right, or just the way some of the sentences are structured themselves. They don't sound like how people actually talk. But Vayne in particular sounds really awkward, convoluted and funny.
- The license board makes me very nervous. I change my mind a lot and the lincense thing is so permanent that it makes me not want to purchase licenses for fear that I'll change my mind about it later. Hmm.
- I'm very used to the FFXI style fighting, so all that is going pretty well for me and I'm enjoying it.
- The limitations of the camera angles and stuff is really annoying at times.
- The music isn't standing out to me
- The game itself is beeeeautiful.
- Basch made me sad. ;_;

Overall I'm really enjoying myself. I haven't played anything beside FFXI in a very long time. It's weird because occassionally, when I'm fighting and something links, I think "oh, I hope someone comes by and grabs the link" and then it's like, "wait, no." xD