ToS' AI does take care of itself, to a certain degree. You can still jump in and override their actions, and change their routines. There are several behaviours to select from for several aspects of the game, and they can be changed independently. Such as for example you can set their positioning to "do not pursuit", "keep away from the enemy", "keep in melee range", then combine this with targeting settings such as "enemy taking least damage", "enemy taking most damage", "enemy not targeted by anyone else", and "enemy targeted by player". Automatic use of certain spells can be turned on and off at will, and the AI remembers elemental weaknesses. You can also easily change between these tactics during battles. There are a few more settings too, but I can't remember them right now. It has been a while since I played it.
And no, you can't just "set and forget" it, and even if you could, there's a lot more actual player still involved in ToS' fights, considering it is real time, direct control and hitboxes. Not inputing any commands yourself would essentially be like playing with 3 characters instead of 4, which would be suicide in most battles that weren't complete pushovers.
In other news, P3Portable works flawlessly in a PSP emulator now. Maybe that's what I should get.
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