Whats the Battle System like?
Star Ocean: The Last Hope is an Action-RPG, like previous games in the Star Ocean series. This means that unlike say, Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest, all actions occur in real time with no wait times or pauses between the action. As you fight spells can go off, your party members can fight, and enemies can fight all at the same time, there is no charge or wait time between all this. Similar to Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (SO3), enemies are visible on the field and can be avoided. Like Star Ocean’s cousin series, “Tales Of”, battles occur on a separate area from where you were exploring. Returning from Star Ocean 1 and 2 is a four-character party within battle. During battle you control one character, and the rest are controlled by an AI system that you can customize somewhat so the AI prioritizes different things, like linking combos or healing. Within battle you have basic things for the buttons like attacking, opening the menu, and jumping. There are buttons to switch control to
