lets see, wait for bar to fill, attack, damage? heal. other party member on automatic. so, how hard can that be? if you find that hard then you must be one of them sissy gamers.

they do that on purpose at first...

slowly they add more layers to the combat system.

Usually those layers only shine during boss fights or larger scale battles. I found that it was a fun battle system.

Play 25 hours before you curse the game, because it's extremely slow at getting you at what the game is really about. you level up roles, not the characters. and the auto-battle feature is only good for a few things, youll only use it for easier battles.

Potions heals all = retarded. As a result it makes combat so much easier. The VA is below average for the most part and the graphics are not as good as people say. I'm sorry but FFXII is 5 times better than FFXIII at the moment (About 6 hours in).

My 2nd best FF EVER!!

Behind FF6

I love the characters, combat, music, lore, cutscenes, culture & setting of the game

I like the story, VA's, linearity (yes I like linear games)

I dislike the summons & shop system

I found it weird too, but the potions actually suck pretty fast, so it healing all members is not a big thing.

Come on folks, everyone is telling you, get more than 20 hours in before you start saying it sucks from just the stuff at the start. Yes the start sucks, everyone knows; just get past it.

25 hours? Really? I have to force myself to play 20 more hours to get to the better parts? I'm bored already, I don't think i'll make it.

I know they are so useless its ridiculous

imo they look so cool & the idea behind the GESTALT mode & so on is GREAT

but its lost potential because they are sooooo useless....they are underpowered....my lightning did around 1K damage in a battle and odin was doing 500 thousand damage

THE ONLY good thing is that they revive fallen members in your party if you summon them.....so when they are gone any members that died are revived

so in the chapter 11 boss....I just got fed up cus it was too hectic....because of my carelessness hope & fang got KO'd.....lightnings HP was low so I couldn't use raise quick enough....so I just summoned odin....its a nice form of "relaxation"....cus when odin is there you don't need to worry about your health.

When odin went the other party members were back & finished off the battle easily.

But they are still useless

I'm glad the summons aren't really that great or necessary, because I never know if I should use my TP or not. They're still nice.