I think the worry was more about the budget. She obviously costs more to hire now than back then. Future connected is prob fairly short so not as many lines as a full 60-hour game. Since her previous work is done, likely just recycled that audio for the main game.

Fantastic news about Coleman's recasting! Adds a lot of value to the epilogue. Wonder how she feels about doing again a character she first did 9-10 years ago. 

The game does look like an impressive remake from where I'm sitting at, though many have mentioned that the handheld play is quite sub-par, ala XC2. I still haven't heard any word on resolution at this point. I'm really hoping Monolith didn't blow all of their overhead on graphical improvements and leave us with a pretty but blurry end result (again, ala XC2).

I mean, Torna's handheld mode was only marginally better than Xeno 2. You could still get pretty blurry quality most of the time. So... 

In Xenoblade Chronicles 2 you could go to an inn where you could decide to use your experience from quests or not. This was good because you could do as much side quests as you wanted without becoming overleveled. The original Xenoblade Chronicles didn’t have this but I hope the definitive edition does.

None of the previews of the game mentioned this so I’m worried that there are no inns.

Yeah, it's an anime .

I hate the character art. I'm never going to be a fan washed out cartoony look, the characters look kind of flat. At least not for this kind of game, it is more fitting in something like Story of Seasons. Still, it's better than Xenoblade Chronicles 2, IMO, where the main character looked like he was 6.