i hate the gameplay in the demo, just felt completely terrible to me, this will be the first numbered Final Fantasy i won't be buying ever.

Leveling up at the camp is a fantastic idea. They did a good job to make your progress through the day counts. Leveling up by pausing the game and go to the menu would have affected that feeling of "daily adventures". Brilliant design.

As for the leveling up itself, I definitely prefer more complex system. As far as I know, there is no information whatsoever about it right now.

Gambit system was already confirmed. Just like more variety of weapons and equipments.

I'm pleasantly surprised by the depth presented in the battle system even with the limited content in the demo. The demo in general is not all that balanced. You level up way too fast which almost removes the need to plan things and act carefully... Except for the Behemoth fight.

My current stance is.
The game will be great. as long as I don't expect a traditional FF experience.

*Press R3 after locking on any enemy to make it permanent.

*As for the MP and Kinghswords ability. It is a balance issue. Leveling up in general happens too fast, you become over-powered for the regular enemies. If you try to kill the Behemoth without using the summon, you will not feel powerful or invisible. The Behemoth acts fast, so consuming all MP the is very risky.

Agreed on the rest. Especially the party members in the narrow cave. Uh.

The game doesn't have the full leveling system implemented yet, so be patient. You can't even view your own party's abilities yet

What I want most is some sort of gambit system and a better camera. I'm pretty happy with everything else

I really like the way it plays in general, though I am a little thrown by the ability to dodge, sprint and jump

Having said that, Tabata definitely seems to know what he's doing. Crisis Core is one of favourite games of all time and Type 0 is impressing me in its first hour. Hopefully it doesn't because more "actiony" than it is now, maybe XVI can return to a nice turn based combat game!

You are not a fan of teh traditional and older ff?

First of all, the demo is without magic (for Noctis, Ignis uses Cure fairly often), so we know nothing about that. Also, it shows that you can level up and attain new weapon skills, but that it's simply not available in Episode Duscae (when you camp out, below your level progression it shows where you would track your skills). Also keep in mind the summon available, while totally sweet, is only a placeholder. That means we really have no idea how the summon system will work or what other kinds of bonuses it grants.

To Recap: Weapon Skills, Magic, and summoning (in its final form) are not present in the demo. We essentially got a demo with only the "Attack", "Skills", and "Items" commands, as well as two limit breaks (Armiger and the Summon).

I played about 10 minutes of Legaia 2 before I started crying and put Legaia 1 back in.

It's about a year off I'm guessing. I think the final version will have a lot of differences!

To the OP: make those concerns known to Tabata, it is the reason he made the demo! I'm pretty sure there will be a whole lot more weapons, which may or may not equate to a more customizable combat, but I hear you loud and clear when you talk about customization of the characters.