Yeah, I remember that being in Gizamaluke's grotto. I think they did it so players wouldn't just put gambits on, wrap an elastic band around the controls and just move around in circles killing regen monsters while they do something else.
I'm not very far in Final Fantasy XII, i'm just crossing the rain filled Giza plains, but I really hope the story either expands beyond a small resistance fighting the big badl empire or just gets told in a more intriguing way like Suikoden 1 (FANBOY) was.






