^ If it's the KH team, chances are your A.I. friends non-consequential. Though it does appear in the trailer that you can switch to a few of them so maybe there is more to the party system than it seems.

I'll admit I'm not wild about it being an action RPG cause they usually feel imbalanced in some way and often times developers make them too easy. Still, I've kinda grudgingly accepted the fact that developers don't want to use ATB or turn base combat anymore for their high profile console games. Considering the huge outcry from critics and detractors about Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon using traditional ATB and not feeling "next generation" I'm pretty sure most developers won't touch those types of battle systems when even the original creator of FF can't get away with using it anymore. Not that I agree with people who don't like command based combat, or the developers who feel that fans won't like their games if they happen to use it.

Still, its starting to become more of a niche and RPG combat systems are merging with action games. Players want speed and flash, not strategy.