Got the demo! It's gonna be a nice game.

Anyways, RPG's are probably the worst genre as far as demos goes. The games are too big and expanding just for a 40 mins gameplay bit to show much about it - cue in for blue dragon demo =/

VERY nice new gameplay footage with Japanese voiceovers

http://kotaku.com/5019059/tales-of-vesperia-gameplay-footage

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I played the demo yesterday and I'm very happy that a great JRPG is coming to my 360 :)

Why do you even bother for a genre you don´t like? I don´t play games that belong to genres I dislike. But, if you really want to find out if jRPGs could appeal to you, then Tales of is not the right one since its far from the reprensentative jRPG. Namco Bandai themselves said this is an anime RPG, which consists of a mixture of anime and jRPG.

I wonder why most of your guys' version of the demo had the English voices. When I dl'ed it the demo had Japanese voices and Japanese text. Maybe it's because my console settings are set to Japan/Japanese and that's how they were when I dl'ed it. When I changed it to the USA/English in the settings menu it didn't affect the demo settings. (I'm using a JP 360 Elite.)

Anyway, I let my gf try out the demo over the weekend and she enjoyed it. Though, she had no idea of the characters abilities/etc. she still liked it.I didn't ask her for a detailed analysis of the demo though. She's a huge Tales of fan, too. Looks like I'll be picking this up, so she can play it in Aug. (I'm getting Tales of Symphonia 2: KoR for the Wii, this week for her, too ;-p)