A few things about Chained Echoes combat:
- Mecha battles aren't that good and should've been used far more scarcely.
- I ran from a lot of battles, but only after getting the rewards, which were primarily filling out the Reward Board. You also get SP to level up your skills from fighting, so the idea that filling out the Sphere Gride in FFX is somehow better than this is pretty silly.
- You should never be dying because of an unlucky Overdrive color. They can all be planned around, and I didn't ever die because of them.
- It's fun.