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Originally Posted by Oriphiel
When you're walking around, you see an exclamation point hover above your head when a monster is near, and you have like two whole seconds to press O and skip or dive in. Basically the same as not being attacked at all.
And Wild ARMs 3 in particular cuts out the fat. It constantly replenishes your amount of skips for strong monsters, doesn't penalize you or slow you down for skipping low level monsters, and you can even straight up cancel any encounter by just interacting with world objects (ladders, switches, doors, etc.).
Tbh, it works so well that it really should have become a JRPG standard, even if it's not as much fun as the system in Okage: Shadow King, where you sprint around ghosts like a quarterback.
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While I didn't like it that much, Blue Dragon on the 360 also had an interesting answer to that combat problem. You could extend a sort of circle around your character when running around. Any enemy groups touched by the circle would be included in the fight if you touched one of them, so you could make enemy groups bigger and more dangerous for more potential rewards.
Didn't necessarily solve the whole problem, but the idea is fantastic - if handled better at least, it could be.