From: LeonhartFour | #033
Well, I could've gone the easy route like you did for the FFVIII topic and just said nothing, but that would be boring!
Then I'd accuse you of copying me. Better this way.
But FFXII's battle system is so...un-interactive that it never feels fast. And it feels like the ATB doesn't fill up very fast either. I always feel like I'm waiting around for too long for my next turn.
So I don't agree that it feels fast-paced. Most other games in the series make it look slow.
If you don't set it to the slower speeds it's pretty quick. It's not FFVIII (the ATB in that game is nuts, turning the speed up to highest is actually bad because Haste plus good junctions makes me get turns faster than I can hope to input commands <_<) but it's a far cry from FFIX. And it's only as un-interactive as you make it. I've played probably 80% of my FFXII time with anything beyond "attack" being manual for whichever character I generally control, and that makes it pretty active to me. Especially with all the MP restoration effects you have that let you actually use spells liberally for much of the game instead of having to always conserve them for boss fights out of intense paranoia of running out (or maybe that's just me). Or never casting them because it's FFVIII.
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