Impressive. I bet some (living and/or former) presidents don't even have that many enemies.

I'm not far at all. I'm just giving my first impressions. As for the graphics, I have to disagree with you. The art design is really very good. However the textures are blury and the polygon counts are low. It doesn't look bad, it just looks limited. I'd love to see what the game would have looked like without the limits of the Wii's hardware.

Yeah. The story seems to get back-on-track now. When you get to Prison Island (not far away now!), everything REALLY kicks off...and it pretty much only gets more and more insane and epic the further in you go!

One quick note- be sure to do the Capital Quests (there's around 50) sooner as opposed to later...you've plenty of time, but it's best not to leave it too late...that includes any quest which involves the capital or any quest with a timer next to it. But don't worry about that just yet!

That's fine. It DOES pick up later, and, although the areas may look a bit washy close-up, the long shots more than make up for it. I mean, just look at this below:

You wouldn't notice that the polygon count is low if all you're seeing throughout the majority of the game are amazing scenes like this...and this is the first major area no less!

Yes, they are. But I know nobody who had an issue with the VA, infact, most are regarding them as some of the best dubbing in any game ever. Far better than most of the generic Atlus/ Namco Voiceovers with squeaky voices from actors trying to play a character 10 years younger than them. Aside from Fiora (but, well, you know...), and possibly Riki, none of the voices seem out of place at all. Infact, most of them fit perfectly. Dunban and Melia are pretty supreme and fit well with the characters, which is probably a skill gained from their TV preformances, but I digress...

The game was never lip-synched when it was re-launched. But you see the characters' faces move so rarely (even in a lot of cutscenes it doesn't show the faces close-up) that, as you said, it's a non-issue.

Where are you in the game? My advice would be to stick with the VA, unless you've reached quite far in, in which case you should try the Japanese voices. I did but changed immediately back. Didn't feel right after 30 hours of knowing the English VA.

I for one enjoy the Voice Acting, probably because to me, the dialect is exotic. It is nice to hear the King's (as well as many other accents from the Realm of the Kingdom) and the different slang and all.

I only got to play for 3 hours last night, but man it was still great, I am really digging this game. Tried to get to some far off areas in the Bionis Leg and I got throttled by some lvl 70s. Good times. I love using Speed and trying to out run Uber powerful baddies while Reyn takes a beating, doesn't work too well, but super exciting. I guess I really just love this game. Not perfect by any means, and I would love to see what could be done with HD graphics/modern hardware, but here is to hoping Monolith Soft is cooking something juicy up for the Wii U.

Sidenote, how did I totally miss that MonoSoft was a first party studio of Ninty? I saw this yesterday and was like, "COOL NEW DEVELOPMENT!!!" then realized it happened in 2007. I am really late to the game.

I wouldn't go as far as saying it's the best dubbing ever (because I don't think it is) but it is fairly well done.

Don't mean to disagree with you, but I'm fairly sure that screenshot is taken from an emulator. Dolphin can do wonders, and Xeno looks amazing in that.

But nonetheless, the game itself on the wii looks great, I still shocked by the little-to none amount of loading times between areas.

To anyone who is in the first 20hrs ~ 35hrs of the story, please wait to get to Prison Island and every moment in the story will be epic. The final part of the game is truly mindblowing, so just wait :)

Also, like Smeags said, the best way to do sidequest is to accept every quest you can, and then simply continue with the story. While you levelup your characters you will complete a LOT of sidequest which in turn gives more exp. It's a win win.

At Prison Island after 20 hours? Seems a bit quick...Prison Island is about 45% of the way through the main storyline. Took me around 35 hours to get there and finished the game at 85 hours. 

@Wagram- It's probably the best JRPG dub, and also the best English dub for a Japanese game...it's damn good. Especially Melia. It will be bizzare her being the new Dr. Who assistant!

Yeah, I got that in 50hrs or so, but I did a lot of sidequest and wandering around Bionis Leg/Eryth Sea. So I don't know how many hours to get there, it was just a guesstimate :P

EDIT: Fixed, from 20~35hrs ;)