I've played FF XIII it has a somewhat similar fighting style to it, but not really, its more of a tactics based system, you have to look at your opponents, take into account how many there are your strengths and weaknesses, theyre strengths and weaknesses, and then decide what to do based on all that data, you don't get to choose each characters individual attack, which can be a nnoying if you just want to devestate someone and instead they want to use nothing but basic attacks, otherwise it has a random timed hit critical system, which can help sway, or keep the combat in your favor, for instance if you go into battle, you have 5 people in one group attackin, but the enemy attacks after the second person, and 4th person there is a chance that the first or second can get a timed critical hit, if you succeed at hitting that timed critical you'll do whats known as a "teamwork hit" meaning that as long as you continue to successfully hit timed criticals, your team will continue to attack one after another, also you have timed blocked counters, if your character blocks or dodges an attack there is a chance he will automatically counter strike. With every battle you also have a chance of capturing monsters from the first fight, unlike most games where you have to train some skill to do so, which you can then either separate for components or keep and sell as a whole to shopkeepers. You can chain battles, by either positioning yoursel correctly between many enemies or using the "time shift" ability your character has, greater risk= greater reward, so the higher the chain the more and better items and experience you get. So it has a few drawbacks like to start battles sometimes takes a while, not being able to control individual members and such (reason behind that is because you're sometimes controlling 50+ people in a huge war) and the storyline from what I've played is rather lackluster, but somewhat interesting because it's different.
If you want a game where you want to feel what it's like to issue attacks to multiple squads of an army, while still being a great RPG system with some pretty decent graphics, its a great game.
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