Looks awesome. Hopoing some animations can be skipped, but it looks fantastic.

The camera angle breakeage during the fight animations seems a little frantic, but the battles are fast-paced and that's important for grinding.

Another impression:

"Grabbed the demo after work today and cleared it in about 13 minutes.

It's basically just a few battles in a row, no exploration, to get you acquainted with the system. Visuals are as beautiful as ever and the music is really good.

Combat is fun and the framerate was excellent. I couldn't tell if it was 60 in 3D, but it was definitely smooth as all hell.

Combat was fun, but I need more time with more classes to really get a decent feel.

I'm definitely excited for this one though. "

Yet another demo impression

"Ok Bravely Defaults battle system really is awesome.

On the battle screen there's the two main options where the game gets it's name I guess.

Brave - This is where it gets interesting. Brave allows you to use BP (Battle Points) which is basically a turn counter. If you brave you can spend your BP (turns) to allow you to "move your pieces" as it were more than once in that turn, however when your deplete your BP and go to say for example -2BP you won't be able to attack/move for 2 turns after that.

Default - Default is what allows you to get to more than 0 BP. Basically you can "Default" a turn to allow you to gain a BP. If you default more you can store up turns to use when you Brave without having to go into the minus. This basically forfiets your turn when you use it so you can't do anything with that character bar default, but you can store the BP for whenever you need to use it for Brave.

Really can't wait to get my hands on the full game in October.  "

this is going to be what FF should have been this gen...the art work is amazing!
Those first impressions sound pretty good too!

Looks so pretty. Blonde is waifu tier?

Will you be getting 3DS XL or just the 3DS?

I've had a 3DS since 2011. ಠ_ಠ

Umm... hehe?... I totally knew that... I was just testing to see if you did...

You could certainly have checked my games collection.

Lol, sorry. I just don't check people's collections that much and the way you worded that made me think you wanted to get one. XD