Xenosaga is haunting me

I finally stumbled across an unreleased track that was in Xenosaga episode 2, for whatever reason wasn't on the OST. And its making me want to play that game again.
E. S. Battle
 
But there's just one problem:
 
The combat in that game is: AHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.
 
You have(key word) to spend at least half a dozen turns charging up "Stock" in order to execute multiple attacks in one single turn. You have to do this because you only do any kind of real damage when the enemy's defense is broken. Which you do by attacking in very specific combo which sometimes requires more than one turn to do. So you finally break them, and hopefully you have enough Stock on your other characters to do some damage before the enemy's turn, which by then they recover from that Break.
 
So yeah... sit there basically "passing" your turn and healing through all the abuse you have to take from enemies while this happens. Not fun...
 
 
But part of me wants to play it again, probably because I'm a masochist.