It's mildly frustrating occasionally — I can't count the number of times I got into a random encounter
with trash mobs, auto - battled, missed at least once, and then had both enemies curb - stomp one of my demons — but it's made the game a lot more tense.
Rather than having to deal
with trash mobs, they can freely explore, catch up with NPCs, etc..
Cutscenes
with trash mobs.
Not exact matches
Anyway because the
trash mobs are hard to kill
with out any skill, to some people gear obtaining could be quite hard making this game may not likable to some audiences.
I think a lot of the problems people have
with the Agarest games is that they don't take proper advantage of this system, leading to far too many drawn out battles against
trash mobs.
-- but they're on more equal footing
with you than the
trash mob zombies you've been killing in other games.
You won't go back to mowing down
trash mobs with your basic assault rifle or just sniping an outpost clean
with impunity.