@visionedorange Thanks for the link and the confirmation. Good to know.

@trastamad03 Combat is in real time.

"The battle system will be a heavily modified version of the Command Synergy Battle system the two previous games used and will feature real time features, such as freely taking control of Lightning's movements and attacks, and a real time block, dodge and counter system. The new combat system is named « Super Change Active Time Battle », also referred as « SATB »."

ALSO,

"Players can assign four commands to the controller's face buttons and instead of selecting commands, players will press buttons that correspond to the individual abilities. However, there will also be timing-based mechanics. Though the battle system is of an action-RPG, it will feature an ATB gauge and every action depletes this bar."

> Those two paragraphs should answer your question well enough.

@Tidus19 @WeiCaoCao That sounds FANTASTIC! Thanks for that nugget of information. Can't wait for the game!

@Gamergirl67 That would be Lumina
(ルミナ, Rumina): http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Lumina

...Do I see somebody using a "Gravity Hammer"-like weapon to send other players flying away in that terribly low resolution screenshot?

@shojikun87 @DMND Nice to see somebody is well informed. Thanks for sharing.

@Ortego13 Sure looks like it.

@USAPATRIOT21 @Marky360 We're not discussing the difference between coop and competitive multiplayer here; I know the difference very well. I'm saying that if there's coop, it means the game DOES have multiplayer, that's all.

@USAPATRIOT21 Yes, I am saying that Portal 2 has 2-person multiplayer.

@USAPATRIOT21 @96augment Coop is a type/kind of multiplayer mode. Coop means there is more than one player in the game (thus multiplayer). It doesn't matter if the other player(s) is/are there to help you or kill you, it's still multiplayer. I'd have to disagree with 96augment 's statement.