I agree the opening for the cities were pretty good, but the opening video, as beautiful as it was, seemed to sum up the entire 1.0 version far more than they'd know... The game's leveling focused mostly on Levequests, and whatever companions you started off with will likely be gone before you get to cap 'cause they didn't like the game. (he gets whisked away to the group of adventurers you see him with at the End of an era video/ARR opening video, with the elezen and miqo'te at the table no where to be seen) There's cool crap doing down but it hardly makes any sense what so ever, it just looks awesome.

Personally, I really liked the attitudes of the elezen and miqo'te that were with the Human character in the beginning and end of that video, but was disappointed that they more or less just fell off the map after their few seconds of screen-time.