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Should clarify that Baten Kaitos is turn based, but each turn is played out as a series of aggressive actions for offense and defense, playing cards from your hand to add outgoing damage, reduce incoming damage, heal, etc, with the sum total tallied at the end of the turn. There's also some further nuances as well.
And while magnus are certainly collectable, the first game is a completionist's nightmare, between one off photographs to take, and one particular item taking a VERY long time to rot into another (I think a 100% speedrun wound up tallying 300 something hours or so and the game was subsequently banned for it).