Yeah, it does look too quick to be ATB. But I am very curious as to what that bar is. To be honest, ATB doesn't faze me too much. Vagrant Story wasn't ATB and is probably my favourite Squenix game of all time (I still need to finish Chrono Trigger though).

I think that Versus XIII could have something that has been lacking in the last who knows how many FFs - an epic villain who appears at a decent time in the game instead of being tacked on at the end. Reckon Sephiroth was the last of those (although some might argue Kuja).

And that is what I've liked about Versus above XIII. It looks like it's had a clear vision from the beginning instead of having a whole ideas thrown into it and then sort of meshed together to work as a story (and of later FFs, gameplay).

EDIT: Oh, did you look at the outdoor areas. They look big. Like properly Gran Pulse centre area big.