I haven't played much of this game yet, but the new battle system reminds me of the one in FF Tactics, and I thought that worked very well. I imagine that once we get further in the game and casting a spell might delay a turn enough to get ourselves killed or something, it'll make more sense. My blinding allegence to Square is peeking through, apparently. Seriously, though, I never really thought ATB was all that great, since it still worked out to be a turn-based thing. You want realtime battle, go get Star Ocean 2 or something...
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I haven't played much of this game yet, but the new battle system reminds me of the one in FF Tactics, and I thought that worked very well. I imagine that once we get further in the game and casting a spell might delay a turn enough to get ourselves killed or something, it'll make more sense. My blinding allegence to Square is peeking through, apparently. Seriously, though, I never really thought ATB was all that great, since it still worked out to be a turn-based thing. You want realtime battle, go get Star Ocean 2 or something...