As for strategy in combat - yes, you need to employ some, but it's neither hard nor complicated. You see an armored flower enemy that only exposes its spongy innards for a second... you wait for that second and shoot it. You see a huge enemy that hits hard... you spam the dodge and wait for your opportunity to attack. It's all stuff that can be figured out on the fly (not that that's necessarily bad); none of the enemies will have you consciously thinking about what to do. No matter what we decide to call it, there's not that much strategy in the fighting.
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