Starting my first game on Custom difficulty -- Hard but with the Added Enemies slider set to Elite (adds 1-2 enemies per battle, one of which is a "special version of the enemy, with more abilities).
Really cool that they have such granularity with the difficulty settings, there's 9 different sliders for different aspects of the game, rather than just having the standard Easy / Normal / Hard option most games have.
Also I'm pretty glad they let you set the gamepad icons to Dualshock buttons.
From reading further reviews, sounds like there's a LOT of customizability when it comes to building your characters.
Apparently each unique story character has their own custom class, but the hidden final classes are only available to generic characters. It always bugged me in FFT that it made little sense to use generic characters once you got the full set of story characters in Chapter 4.
Ah okay quit reading and geeking out and start playing the game already Pharmakos, my gosh.