Quote Originally Posted by Croyles
You need to remember though that this is a demo and that it only offers the easiest possible monsters.
That not really the point, in all other FF games, if you didn't do anything during the battle, either the game sat and waited for you to make a choice or the monsters would attack you even if you just sat there. Even with the easy monsters at the beginning of the games it was possible to lose if you didn't take an active part in the battle.