Yes that makes sense, many thanks!

The volcano continent is interesting. It seems like it is where the alien city is located. Also the purple area from 15:30.

You make it sound like a world is only open if it's designed like a circle around the player. Like the presence of a single island makes the world not open because it's a "separate area."

Open world means you can go anywhere you want whenever you want. You don't have to wait for the story to usher you into a new area before you're allowed to go there. In Xenoblade there were artificial barriers (the party would stop and say let's not go there right now) preventing you from progressing in the world before you had completed the necessary story quests. That's what they mean about X being open world, they're saying that won't happen.

Once you've been to any location once, the method of traveling there is irrelevant anyway because you can just use skip travel.

That it's not the purple area, I'm pretty sure it's the White Forest in a different time of the day, which I would find pretty cool because it would mean that location isn't always "grey".

Good find, I wonder if they are going to be the native Mira folk that hate humans mention in the video (seemed lined up to be goons) or the cat people we saw in the previous E3 trailer (who I think one of them was shown flying a mech/Doll).

One thing I dislike about this game is the main characters looks. He looks so boring and not excited or derpy as I have heard described.

You say "customize" Well I dislike customization for one reason and that is due to OFFICIAL art and what not. Let's say this game is amazing and best game ever and leads ot things like Posters or AMIIBO that you want of the game. Guess what they will be of? This derpy character that is not the one you created, hell you could make a female and it would be not even of same sex.

So when it comes ot posters, wallpapers, amiibo, smash roster, ect. It will be of some derpy guy that you didn't play as or else have ot be relegated to excluding him/her and being of the companions.

Are you afraid of liking it? You know Nintendo or Wii U are not a disease! You won't turn into an "uncool kikkie" for enjoying Nintendo games!!!

Since you already have a Wii U, I'll say that you are missing on some great gaming!!!

Now that I've seen the translated Direct, I'm even more anxious to play the game.

And I didn't know that Dolls wouldn't be available from the start. Good, that way I'll appreciate the chance to run/pilot one even more.

Are they? Nice! 

Well not from the very start, ofcourse. You have to get to the city first.

At least that's the impression I got from the video and translation.

During the video, at 18:30 the translation says:

http://youtu.be/rtNzxuly294

• Noppon : "With such a convenient thing at disposal, why not use it from the very beginning?"
• Elma: "Doll is not something anyone can handle"
• Noppon: "Is that so?"
• Elma: "Dolls can only be used by selected BLADE  members who have acquired the license. I hope I'll get my own Doll one day"

My guess is that we'll have to deal with the first continent by foot and, once the missions ask us to explore the other ones, we'll be able to get the training and then use the Dolls. But so far it's only a guess.