And yet, outside of Hunts I was able to get 5-stars easily dive-bombing my HP to suicidial levels in FF13/13-2, your point?
Which just means it's like most video games. The bosses are where the challenge/strategy is and most other enemies you can kill without thinking. And yet in other video games people still try to find efficient ways to take out minor enemies. The same concept applies to this as well. As for why Lightning can walk, I don't know, I haven't played the full game yet. Check back in later, I'm not saying that is a good mechanic or not because it's not possible for me to know yet. I was more focused on your button mashing comments.
Really it just makes me wonder if you feel that way about other video games? Since you picked action games I'll just go with that. In DMC3 I could button mash my way to victory in basically every fight. Yes the fights took longer, but, I could still do it and win. Does that invalidate the fact that you can learn the mechanics and play it on a better level in that game as well? Because that's basically what you just said about this. It sounds like you're against people actually learning how to play games and understand all the systems in them.
Besides, to be honest I'm not sure what your point is in the post since the demo equips you differently than the full game. Doing shit play with high level abilities you aren't given in the main game at that point and getting a high score seems like a moot point.