I finally started playing this… it’s pretty neat, though I spent way too much time in tutorial-land. For someone who hasn’t picked up a fighter in about eight years, I fully expect to have my ass handed to me very fast.
Cecil is supposedly the easiest story, but I don’t like him very much so far. No real long-range attacks, and short-range is dangerous and easy to get off-balance. His aerial attacks have little range, too. Well… I’m only level 4, hopefully I’ll get better skills as time goes on. 
The tutorials are neat, all of them are “given” by different FF characters from the various games, many of whom shout at each other. 8p (Really it’s just a character portrait at the top left, but it’s in their dialogue style, so it’s funny.)