Balance, Homogenisation and Encounter Design: The Problem.

[Dzian]

Except just like with FF12, you didn't spam the same ability over and over again. Doing so led to death really fast. Again, like FF12, you had to buff, debuff, adjust strategies on the fly, you couldn't just use COM/RAV/RAV the entire game. FF13 was not homogenization, characters could only use certain roles in the game until a specific point, and excelled at certain ones more than others (which is more than we could say about vanilla FF12).

Not really. Outside of a few paradigm shifts here and there on some of the hunts or side bosses you could pretty much clear the entire game running down that long linear corridor just pressing auto battle over and over again. while it might not be the same skills it pretty much is the exact same button. So it's not like he's wrong. you can spam auto battle endless and have an incredibly high success rate going through the game.