Yeah the battle system never changes and is nothing very special at all. It gets really boring after hours and hours of grinding away at it. The characters get better later on in the game but again are nothing spectacular.
It's a pretty bad game. Some people like it but if you already can't stand it then you are probably not one of those people.
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