@pbroy: 108 hours already? Even with idle time that's still insane. Aren't you worried about RRoD? Anyway, I'm at 35 hours with about 7 of them being idle. Just finished up with Aeos and am supposed to go to En II but decided to mop up more quests/fill orders first. My characters are in the level 50-60 range (except Lymle, she's aggravating and as such, I refuse to use her).
Really enjoying the game thus far. The story's decent and keeps you interested. Absolutely love the combat system, very fun. The only battle I've struggled with was on Aeos (ambush,ambush,ambush), I died about 10 times, but other than that the game's not too challenging. Downsides for me are the cutscenes, not so much the content, but the length. A few of them have to be 25-30 minutes long and occasionally boring. Nice of them to have a synopsis if you decide to bail. Also, Lymle really does suck, 'kay? 100 times worse than 'The Shining' twins from Infinite Undiscovery, 'kay?
I haven't played Vesperia, yet, but would definitely rate SO4 above the other 360 jrpgs. Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon were good but had stretches where you really had to motivate yourself to continue on with the game. I haven't encountered that with SO4.
