I can't say it good or bad the demo of ff12 it kind of turned me off and is makeing think twice abou the game. In the Demo all the battle are Real time fighting like MMORPG It gave me a feal like they tried to combine 10 and 11 into one game. you get Mp as your fight in the demo to cast spells all creatures are visable When you do a summon two of your party members become the summon creature and moves around and attacks with the other party member and moves around with while your not fighting for it duration then after the time turns back into your two missing party members. I find the play control a little akward in because you have to press a button to switch between the charaters you control the ai works if you don't switch but in the demo the only thing the ai does is attack it does not cast heal or any spells. I am not sure if theres a world map any more either because what is on the demo it looks like the games are devied into stages and when you beat a section it even says stage complete.
I am not sure if the real game is going to be set up like this because the demo came out with Dragon quest 8 witch came out a year ago. and it had a big disclamer on it when it starts up saying that this demo may not reflect what will be in the final production of the game. This a a playable demo only.
So the actual game could have made some serious changes years worth of programing that they could have changed. because when the playable demo came out the oringal relase date was scheadual for like 3 months later but it got pushed back til now.
I am Big FF fan and i ever every one but 11 because i don't belive in paying monthly for a game lol. But this is the frist i have ever even qustion if i should maybe rent it frist.