Yeah, you can still use the champion's abilities. I'm a chicken so I mostly tried to find places to hide and snipe the enemies instead of running in guns blazing. I'm kind of dreading these big fights but hopefully they won't be as bad as I'm thinking, especially since you can use food and items for them.

Yay!!! I'm too cheap for the collector's editions but it looked really cool!

Thanks! Too bad you're not nearby so I can kidnap you for an afternoon of video games, lol!