By default, it's on Recommended, which stops time during battle animations. There is an option in the game menu where you can change the ATB style between Active, Recommended, and Wait. While you make your decision on what each character should do, though, enemies are still able to attack you, so you need to be careful.

Once it's full, you can input a command to take, whether it's Attack, Magic, Summon, Limit Break, or Item. The combat system in FFVII uses Active Time Battle (ATB), so all characters in your team, as well as the enemies, have a timer gauge. The only ones who can stop him? Cloud and his band of allies, of course. Eventually, you'll learn about Sephiroth, who's a superhuman experiment created by Shinra and a foil to Cloud Strife, and his plans to destroy the entire world. Shinra has monopolized the planet's life force as Mako energy. At the beginning of the game, you're on a mission to bomb a power plant that is owned by Shinra, which is the huge megacorporation that controls Midgar. You take on the role of Cloud Strife, a mercenary and ex-SOLDIER who is working with the eco-terrorist group, AVALANCHE. The story of FFVII is one of the best for a Final Fantasy game, and honestly, it still holds up well to this day, even if you've never played it before.

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