GarfunkeL said:
What more is that screen except a shitty UI where instead of "MAGIC" or "SPELL" screen the few spells are directly listed on the screen?
Each spell each party member has is handpicked from a list before the battle (intentionally limited to force you to choose wisely), and each demon companion's moves come about as a result of careful fusions, again forcing you to choose from a limited pool. You can move, the amount of spaces you can move per turn (and whether you can move after attacking) determined partially by stats and partially by what passive skills you or your demons have, some of which allow you to skip over obstacles and thus get the drop on enemies. Yet more skills allow you to attack from two spaces away, preventing enemies from counter-attacking unless they have the same skill. When you attack, the scene shifts to a blob-esque first person combat for one turn, after which you return to the battle map. If you use skills wisely to exploit weaknesses and get critical hits, you can get a bonus turn and deal double the damage. On the map screen itself, each party member can use one out-of-battle skill (if they have any) per turn, to heal themselves, get guaranteed criticals in the next fight, boost stats etc. Add to that the fact that you usually have three or four parties of three (one character and two demons) at any given time, parties can heal/boost other parties to help them out of a jam if they're close enough, etc.
So I think there's a bit more to it than ATTACK and MAGIC, yeah.
