Btw, FMV is in this context usually means "Full Motion Video"...in other words cutscenes.

And holy sweet jebus thats a lot of cut-scenes. Thats like an entire season of 24 worth of video. I like a well done story but that seems a little too much to me.

Lol, its more than a season of twentyfour. You can watch an entire season of 24 on DVD (without ads obviously) in about 18 hours

20 hours FMV??? Isn't that BAD???

The more I think about it, the more I think that the 20 hours of FMV has to be a mistake of some sort. Whilst Mistwalker appears to like FMV, it would be unusual for them to have so little gameplay mixed in with such an absurd amount of video.

Yes, that's very bad.

This better be a mistake.

Hrmm. Well most of this news is worrying to me as an RPG fan... 20 hours of FMV is just ridiculous. Even the FF games with the most FMV hit 4 hours at most... One weapon, ring, and accessory and very few random world encounters make this seem like it's dumbed way down for casual gamers. I'm not happy about this at all.

Lets just remember that its Sakaguchi's baby. Im not a Final Fantasy player and even i can't stop hearing about this man. This is the first brand new major project he has personally spearheaded (BD was Artoon) since FF1. Even if there is 20hrs of FMV, I think this game will be brilliant, deep and immersive.

 Or else they'll get a taste of my Ninjutsu! Hayaaahhhh!

Sakaguchi made some amazing games while working with Square Enix... but that's the thing.  He made those games while working with Square Enix.  There is an issue with assuming that Sakaguchi is an amazing developer without Square Enix just like there is an issue with assuming Square Enix can make Final Fantasy without Sakaguchi.  FFXII proved they can't.  The two entities may have been co-dependant.  You are very wrong about Blue Dragon btw.  Sakaguchi personally designed that game, and wrote the entire scenario.  He had the same position with that game that he has with this one.

I'm not saying this game doesn't have the chance to be very good, but it has just as good a chance of being mediocre or even bad.  It's too early to know, but as someone who plays and loves RPGs all of this news is very troubling. 

^^ I agree with naz. Rare made some awesome games while working with Nintendo, now they're barely above great.