Is combat system automatic?

[Nanachi best fury-enimall fury]

HI

I've watched some playthroughs of the game on youtube and I wonder is combat completely automatic. It looks like it has to some extend tactical elements but characters in fight seem to do everything on their own.

[kilicool64]

You can choose which group of characters gets to fight (assuming more than one of your squads is on the same tile as an enemy squad), which squad member plays which role, and which skills the three of them use. The actual battle happens after that and is indeed automatic.

[Sima Marlin]

The tactic part is planning who to place where and how their skills are placed so they best counter opponents.

Btw, there is key to speed up the battles, I missed that when I first got that game years ago.. . Would have saved me 10's+ hours easilly.

[Wraith_Magus]

Combat not only runs on its own, it also has zero randomness. This means that you have no control once the battle screen pops up, but you can simply look at yours and enemy stats and do the math on your own to see how battle will go before hitting the "confirm" button.

Choosing skills and roles is also not nothing; I frequently had to put my spellcasters in the "forward attack" role where they dealt no damage because I needed my green to block and my blue to cancel a doomspell. Many battles, especially the "continuous" against bosses, came down to sheer attrition, where I simply waited for the boss to run out of MP for their attacks and drained off their blocks with plinking from my green and red until they couldn't defend before I sent my blue in to finish them off.

Basically, gameplay is a desperate struggle to keep your girls alive until the enemy runs out of doom moves, at which point you can overrun them, grab the next town that refils your moves, and start over again.

[Izunyami]

Or you get your red spirits to nuke them combined with blue spirit's Heaven's Sword or Fury to annihilate your enemy before they can kill you.