Final Fantasy 13 New Trailer

This trailer led me to a few observations:
-The combat system reminds me a lot of Valkyrie Profile's.  If you can't tell what is going on in that video, basically every character has a button assigned to them (square, X, triangle, circle).  You have a limited amount of points you can expend with an attack per turn, and every character's attack expends a certain amount of points.  So you use a combination of attacks accordingly.  And in Valkyrie Profile, if you can combo enough attacks, you charge up the bar at the lower left corner, which will allow you to unleash super attacks (just fancy animations for massive damage).

-I have a very vague (and probably inaccurate) understanding of the story.  From what I got from the trailer, the storylinegoes something like there is an underground (or above ground, since they said the underground was evil) society where they don't allow their citizens to go outside of an enclosed area.  Apparantly a group of people (where the main characters are) don't like this societal structure and run around wreaking havoc.  Of course, there is a bigger plot that probably ties in with why the society is enclosed int he first place.  Kind of like Ergo Proxy.

-There was voice acting involved.  Does that mean there will be horrible English voice-overs for the US release?  Or will it be like Disgaea where you can choose what language you have the characters speak in?

-Where have I seen a giant scorpion robot before?  Possibly another Final Fantasy title?

Verdict: If the combat system is anything like Valkyrie Profile, then it is an improvement over the standard turn based system used in classic Final Fantasy titles, but it still is a pretty straight forward, dull way to kill enemies.  If the trailer was actually depicting some sort of real time battle, where you control each character, and you actually have to chain attacks together while dodging or absorbing hits, then that would be really cool.  Considering how long this Final Fantasy title has been in production, I wouldn't put it past them to come up with something like that, although the programming for it would be insanely difficult and probably won't happen either.  That said, I'm not too excited about the gameplay, or the voice-acting, so hopefully the story will be epic.  But it's not like enclosed societies with rebellions inside hasn't been explored before (The Matrix, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann to name a couple more).