>Select weakness-exploiting move from the menu.
>Watch battle animation.
>Repeat until the boss is dead.
>B-but sometimes you need to heal!
How do we fix the turn-based combat in JRPG? There's nothing strategic or tactical about mindlessly mashing one button to win.

These shit are way simpler than chess. Will they ever evolve beyond mindlessly spamming Fire attacks on Grass monsters? Tactical turn-based games like X-COM and Jagged Alliance already demonstrated that turn based games can have gameplay depth, but I guess the average japs will get filtered hard by anything beyond selecting attack from the menu.