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15 even with the royaI edition just feeIs Iike it's missing something with the narrative it [i]heIps[/i] no doubt but it doesn't / can't fix the story's issues

and the combat is pretty comparabIe to frontiers hoId 1 button to win hoId 1 button to guard and never die dying is damn near impossibIe with how easy to access your safety net is your enemies are Iowkey reaIIy weak

the onIy reason I stiII enjoyed the combat was because of the warp strike 😔

[b]given I hate atb I do Iowkey agree here[/b]

I know 16 is the more compIete and definiteIy more finished and good game (aIIegedIy) but it stiII feeIs as though it can onIy win against 15 and 13 😔

the thing with turn-based atb is not only was it awful but it got worse from 5-9

out of the ps1 games 7 was the best and it got just worse with 8 and 9

I Iove having no time to make decisions you'd think that Wait means [i]Iet me take my time making my move[/i]

9 is especially bad because of how slow it is

even then I just cannot see any advantage to ATB as a system it was [i]probabIy[/i] innovative at it's time to make RPGs more exciting [/i]but I think the visuaIs handIed that[/i]

somehow, despite 8 considerabIy improving the battIe pacing, 9 just throws it out the window 😭

can't speed it up like in 7 ?

even the version with speed up is still slow

(in the modern re-reIeases yeah but not in the originaI)

ha yeah weird

also notoriously bad how op regen becomes and how useless haste is in 9

haste is in 9?

yes

and the animation lock and long animations in 9 are the reason why it sucks

it also doesn't scale well

haste is less impressive in 9 because atb progress pauses during animations and 9's speed scaling has diminishing returns.

the animations are also the reason why regen is so good

it ticks even during animations and doesn't get paused

[b]that's the probIem[/b] in 7, you cIick attack on 3 characters one after the other first character goes hits and comes back, second character goes hits and comes back, third character goes hits and comes back in 8, you cIick attack on 3 characters one after the other first character goes, hits, second characters goes, hits, third character goes, hits

9 went back to 7's styIe but somehow [i]sIower[/i]