Well some of us don't live in the US so no reason to wait. I'll probably (not really) buy it later to support it.

you guys are nerds.  no way i'm paying like $40 for a game i'm going to play for a couple hours before deciding it's bad.  i learned my lesson after star ocean 3!

I played it for an hour or so today and I loved what I played. I think the battle system is fun, and although I can't know how much depth it will have in the end I am just very happy to have materia back. I'd take this battle system over the generic FF ABS any day. But yeah, this game is seriously outrageously good looking for a PSP game. I don't have anything against Zack's voice, but I hate the "CONFLICT RESOLVED" voice I wish there was a way to turn it off.

@Marcus: It comes out next week's tuesday as far as I know, but I saw it on torrentleech today so I decided to download it beforehand. heh heh

torrent it and buy it when you can? that's the way of the samurai

I would dl it just to try it out but since I don't have a phat anymore I can't downgrade my slim.

You could rent it.  Blockbuster and most other rental shops carry a pretty reasonable library of PSP games.  Weirdly though I never see DS games for rent anywhere.

I'm just gonna buy it I'm pretty positive I'll like it so meh.

btw i'm not seeing the big deal about this game.  it looks REALLY GOOD and shit but a) story seems kind of dumb, and also gratuitously made for gay ff7 fans, b) voice acting is doubleplusungood, c) CAMEOS!!!!, and d) battle system is actually not that great!  i think it is sort of well-conceived, but even more so than so3, since it only has one attack button, it is guilty of being incredibly incredibly repetitive.  i'm about an hour and a half in and, hopefully it will change, but at this point it has yet to be anything else than hammer x till the thing falls over!!!

why is it people are so quick to praise mediocre action rpg battle systems?  tails of symphonia, so3, this.  none of them are wildly out of the ordinary or even especially imaginative in their implementation, and yet people always cite them as examples of really fun systems.  i don't enjoy pressing x continuously for an entire game, but maybe that's just me.

ALSO i'm not really so fond of the slot machine thing, but i probably don't get it completely.  i'm not sure i know why it even comes up half the time, or how me hitting people relates to the turning wheel in the upper left-hand corner, which in turn seems to relate to how often the bigger one pops up, but i do know it's a pretty gay way of deciding when you and your abilities level up.  so far, my slot one spell is level six, and everything else is level two.  i also wish i could sort of choose my limit breaks for myself.  mostly, i'm just confused by why, since it seems to stop on its own whenever it stops, regardless of what buttons you press, it takes so goddamn long to do it.  and why it will often inexplicably just stop for a few seconds and show you random images of zack or others in action.  at first i thought i had to press x to choose the final one and try to match it up, but once i realized it was automated, the entire process just feels needlessly long.  especially when it happens multiple times in a row.  this is sort of a minor part of my issue with the battle system, though, because if anything, it definitely feels speedy and doesn't drag.

but yeah MAD POLISH but i do not think it is an especially great game so far.  predictable story......repetitive and at times convoluted battle system.....igive it three darkjaks out of five