Anyone ever play legacy of legaia? It was a turn based fantasy game for PlayStation. Each round your team would select their moves, and then once all selected, then the animations would play. I kind of hoped this game would take some form of that.

I completely agree about the duration of the battles. I did some tinkering with game files and increased the distance and area of some spells - to counter the massive size of the battlefields - and it felt more reasonable time-wise, but didn’t feel overpowered because the enemies had the same tools.

It also made those abilities a lot more fun to use.