Been playing it for a few days, just finished chapter 6. It’s ok so far not spectacular, but still worth playing.
-Story is ok, this could go up or down depending on how it turns out. Nothing in the story has really grabbed me yet, so it’s no better then ok.

-Characters are fine, except Hope who is one of the most annoying I’ve seen in a FF game. Snow is mildly annoying as well

-I don’t like the combat at all. Other then choosing when to change paradigms you don’t really get to do much except click the button to let the AI choose attacks. They could get rid of user input altogether for everything but paradigm changes and it would barely change anything.

-It’s completely linear so far. I don’t really mind that, I think it’s something that has it’s place. It’d be nice if we saw some less linear games once in a while though.