[ShadowHeart]

In Star Ocean (for SNES) and Star Ocean 2 (for PSX), there are random battles like in FF games, in Star Ocean 3 (for PS2) however, you see enemies on-screen, and have to run into to them (or get run into by them) to start a fight.

Battles are fought completely different than in FF games. You fight in real time.. ie, you control one of the characters in your battle party at one time, run around on the battlefield and attack enemies with attacks, special attacks called killer moves or magic. You can change the character you're controlling at any given time during battle.. the other characters are AI controlled (you can set in the menu what kind of strategy they should use, ie all out attack, more careful, and so on). Everything happens in real-time, but in SO1 and SO2 some (most actually) spells stops time while they are animating.

You should probably have asked this in the "Other Video Games" forum instead..