Looking good so far but I think I have one major complaint: initiating battle. Looks like avoiding battle is going to be much harder and failing to avoid battle will result in a much more annoying battle. They should have sticked to the way it was in FFXIII: attack the enemy's back, get a pre-emptive strike. Normal approach would result in a normal battle. They should simply have made it so that if the enemy got to your back, it would be an ambush (or whatever it was called). I really dislike the current system in FFXIII-2.