Final Fantasy VII:R - What do you think of the new Battle System?

[Kowan]

The Fury said:

LMU Uncle Alfred said:

Well, I looked back at it and when you see Barret shooting for the first time Cloud was attacking on his own.  Hard to say how this is all going to streamline together, but maybe that was after a manual input attack, then the player switched to Barret.  Either way, gotta look out for a confirmation from SE.

Kowan said:

At once? You mean like you can switch freely between everyone any time? It looks that way. 

Part of the ATB I like and will always like is the strategy in FF7 (8, 9, X etc). I mean when you go into a random match you have to strategise, put protective spells on you, move position (I presume long range will nolonger exist as a gameplay feature :P). In FF12, you didn't have to do this as you could buff yourself before battle and with FF13 I didn't feel like there was any strategy as it as all too heckic and quick.

I atually love FF12's battle system and would love a new FF to adapt it and improve on it. But it didn't really remove the strategy element as buffing and such is not permanent and usually wears off in between battles and many challenging enemies removes such buffs as well. So it's actually more challenging that way as you have to think quicker and know when is the best time to cast such buff. I'm sure while FF7R could possibly be more real time and more action oriented, it will still implement a great system of strategizing. Yoshinori Kitase himself said so. So let's wait until they showmore footage that focuses on the gameplay.