Yeah I have to agree about the Espers being a huge disappointment. But getting them all is still satisfying and fun (if time consuming and frustrating sometimes, but that's side quests for you). Everything already seems to be said, so I'll just be repeating you all, but I have to mention that the BEASTIARY is a huge bonus. Seriously, READ the beastiaries, they hold so much information about Ivalice and it's mythology, and lots of times it ties together some loose ends of the story, and answers questions about certain characters.

Ivalice map is the best in the world, I wish all FF games will be these vast worlds where you feel you can go ANYWHERE and look at ANYTHING from now on. And no more set camera angles, yay!

Glad to see some people who likes the voice acting. I __LOVE__ the voice acting, but most FFXII players I've encountered so far haven't thought to highly of it actually. I hope you'll enjoy the game, it's really worth the time imo anyway!