Yeah, Lost Odyssey is alright. I just hope the battle system isn't so fuckin ancient in this game. I hated how you had to choose what every character did before they acted on it in LO, it just feels broken doing that, plus the cut from exploration to battles took about 10 seconds (too long with the amount of encounters in LO) and even longer if you didn't install the game. The ring system was pretty cool though and being able to swap out stuff in the midst of a battle was like a meta game in itself and the balancing between having mortals and immortals in your party was cool too.
my wish is they do away with random battles and have a battle system which integrates with regular exploration rather than cutting to battle mode.