Holy CRAP! FFT and FF12 share the same world?!

[Theodric]

FFXII's battle system is what you make of it, really. You can effectively play the game in a turn based manner, or you can let it play automatically after setting up gambits to suit one's personal tastes. I myself typically pick one character (usually Basch) to control manually whilst setting up Ashe and Balthier to perform automatically.

You can also access certain high level enemies during the early/mid-game for quite an interesting challenge.

[WilhelmWhite]

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I loved FFXII's battle system, and did it the same way :P. (Only difference being I manually controlled Fran, and set up gambits for Ashe and Balthier). I will say that mist quickenings -while they have epic animations and effects- did a disappointing amount of damage. Even with longest quickening chains I've been able to achieve, it still barely left a scratch on whatever boss I was fighting.