Yeah, it does. You turn on the "gambit" system and the computer handles the combat for you. Any time we ran into a boss we couldn't beat, the computer would do just fine.
Honestly, I think the Japanese "v-novel" is the future of gaming. You just watch the game play itself, make a handful of decisions and watch one of a dozen or so endings. Like P&M said, Choose Your Own Adventure with a pretty, new hat.
Yuck.
The good thing is that there are still fine, oldschool games coming out. You just have to look a little harder than you used to.