Tales of Abyss
OKAYY!! TODAY YOU WILL KNOW WHAT IN THE UNIVERSE YOU ARE IN AND HOW YOUR SURROUNDINGS LOOK LIKE *REALISTICALLY*
Synopsis
First, you will be in WORLD called AULDRANT, a world where atomic particles are based on element known as FONON and where every single event in life had been predicted about 2000 years ago by YULIA JUE including prophecies called SCORE about how warring countries would declare war someday and how nature would shift to drastic destruction as well as daily regular events that would happen (WEW! PEOPLE WERE HOOKED UP ON THIS LIFE HACK PROPHECY).
the same world where a red-haired guy called LUKE FON FABRE (WOOO SOME COOL ARISTOCRATIC GUY) will be your main character. Sadly, his childhood involved badly-marked event in which he was kidnapped for 7 years prior to the start of the story. The intro to this guy will be in a Manor called Manor Of Fabre located in Kimlasca Kingdom.
Duke Fabre (Luke's dad & a duke related to the kingdom of Kimlasca) and his wife Susanne tried his best to keep his son stay at home until he reached adult age (ouff painful!). Later, his favorite sword practice mentor named Master Van came to visit, but not to train (huh ?). Apparently there was this some kind guy name ION needs him to be a protector or some sort which makes Luke kinda curious yet mad why bother with a guy in need of protection (BIG DEAL!).
Not long after quick battle tutorial + sword practice, a mysterious intruder would put everyone to sleep and try to kill Master Van (quick tension!!), then Luke's tackle created a power called SEVENTH FONON that instantly TELEPORTED you and this Mysterious intruder to some wild unknown valley. THAT'S IT!! your first AWFULLY MESSY JOURNEY was about to begin, but these two would just eventually get to know each other's origin starting from Trying to return Luke back home while unveiling what Dark Truth / History lurked in the plot.
ENVIRONMENT
All right, the environment here is stunning, wow oh wow!!!, I considered this graphic, in 2013, equal to Zestiria. I got to roam the world freely, encounter any monsters, as much as I could, found any cities, hills, as well as entered unknown place that is not supposed to be visited until mid-game. OH! what a homework to visit everything at a time! yup that was called adventure.
I thought the amazing aspect later I DISCOVERED was having my own airplane & land ship (not quite long to possess due to plot). THE POINT was travelling with efficiency and style, plus I have no worries about damage, forgetting where I parked it, fuel. I GUESS developers had to focus on plots & other features.
You will automatically have a map to locate where is where while cities & dungeons are visible to spot due to large icon that is accessable by pressing X Button.
Careful with other environmental conditions that require you to upgrade your transport (plane) via refined flightstone to break through storms, sandstorms, even whirlpool at sea (YES! Your plane will have dual fuctions either land plane or airplane).
Plus, you will be travelling a lot (LIKE BUSINESS TRIP, BUT WORLD SALVATION BUSINESS). MY ADVICE, EXPLORE YOUR SURROUNDINGS AS COMPLETE AS POSSIBLY WHILE YOU ARE BOUND TO A DUNGEON OR CITY RELATED TO MAIN PLOT. YOU CAN GET SKITS WHILE LEVELLING UP OR COLLECTING ITEMS.
OH! NO WORRIES ABOUT HOT DESERT, COLD SNOW, OR HOT LAVA. YOUR CHARACTERS WILL NOT GET INFLICTED BY STATUS.
Battle Mechanisms
Okayy, so we have 4 party members with two types; FIGHTERS & CASTERS.
FRANKLY, I TOOK INSURANCE AND USED ONLY LUKE OR GUY. WHY ? Fighters fight with high P.ATK, P.DEF (Physical Attack & Defense) complemented with practical direct attack ARTES. So, all you need to do is confront the enemy, perform 3 basic hits, then connect it to BASE ARTE OR ARCANE ARTE when you already levelled up enough.
there is no character switch for solo player (SORRY). IF YOU WANT TO SWITCH TO ANOTHER CHARACTER AS THE MAIN, YOU HAVE TO SWITCH BEFORE ENTERING BATTLE. I always have my CASTERS cast for me by entering their ARTE LISTS and direct the attack area or healing area (KINDA FUN THOUGH! FEELS LIKE TACTICIAN.)
THE VERY FIRST CASTER YOU CAN TRAIN WITH IS TEAR OR JADE (TEAR IS HEALER WHILE JADE IS NUKER) DEPENDING ON YOUR PRIORITY BE IT EITHER HEALER (DEFENSIVE CASTER) OR NUKER (AGRESSIVE CASTER).
MY ADVICE ? BE FLEXIBLE WITH EVERY PARTY YOU JUST RECEIVED SO THAT TACTICS CAN ALWAYS BE CREATED.
USE ITEMS WHEN NECESSARY
CHECK POSITIONING & COMMAND TO PARTY VIA STRATEGIES
ESPACE IF YOU MUST (NO COWARDICE ELEMENT HERE RELAX!!)
I RARELY CHECK EQUIP DURING BATTLE SO FEEL FREE IF YOU LIKE.
FACTIONS
We have 3 factions that we are going to encounter and deal with A LOT. Namely, we have Kingdom of Kimlasca, Malkuth Empire, and Order of Lorelei / Yulia City.
Kimlasca is the kingdom where our main character lived is a country that is located in south continent with capital city of Baticul while Malkuth Empire rules in north continent with capital city of Grand Chokmah, and Order of Lorelei is in west continent with capital city of Daath.
Kimlasca relies heavily on ground forces, fonic artilleries, fonic cannons, and other ground-based arms while Malkuth's strength is oriented on naval force, heavily armed fleets although both have similar groundships called dreadnaught.
Frankly, I do not see any significant differences in terms of Military; However, Kimlasca is advanced in sky lift or gondola for means of transportation from ground quarter to top quarter. as for Malkuth, they use fonic artes to manipulate water for building structure of the city.
Order of Lorelei has its own autonomy for its trade policy, military formation, political involvement because it has religious stance (WELL, THEY WILL BECOME A MEDIATOR MOST OF THE TIME THEN HELP GUIDE SOCIETY TO BETTER DIRECTION BY SCORE READING, AND GIVE BLESSINGS). the military force formed by Order of Lorelei is called Oracle Knights with particular ranks starting from Fon Master TO Cantor, but there two main leaders (Fon Master and Grand Maestro) in this Order just LIKE KING & PRIME MINISTER. OH! Order of Lorelei should use very less military power as its job is acting as peace emissary.
About Yulia City, its main job is to oversee natural environment shift, world balance, conflicts, and other anomalies on Outer Land (land where Kimlasca, Malkuth, Daath exist), so Order of Lorelei has the same task to share with Yulia City, but Yulia City is in Qliphoth (Land Below Outer Land where Sephiroth, the Outer Land main pillars, exists). Hence, overseers on Outer land and Lower Land. For Note, Yulia City represents society from much advanced era but in Dawn Age, and it has NO MILITARY FORCE (ABSOLUTELY NEUTRAL).
POWER FEATURE
Nexttt, FOF CHANGE Feature is introduced in this series as its Niche.
First, you create a circle element (FIRE, GALE, EARTH, WATER), then you make sure the circle turns COLORFUL 100% (WHITE CIRCLE WITH ELEMENT ONLY 50%) otherwise a FOF CHANGE will not occur, next you have TO BE WITHIN the CIRCLE RANGE, and use BASE/ARCANE ARTES (DO NOTE THAT NOT ALL ARCANE ARTES HAVE TO POSSESS THEIR OWN FOF CHANGE) that CORRESPOND to the Element Colour LIKE THIS:
FANG BLADE WILL REACT TO WIND/GALE (THE FOF CIRCLE MUST BE GREEN) >> HENCE, LIGHTNING TIGER BLADE
DEVIL'S INFERNO ONLY REACTS TO GROUND >> DEVIL'S MAW ( THE FIRE ELEMENT IS THE ELEMENT THAT DEVIL'S INFERNO CREATES WHEN YOU USE IT)
STALAGMITE ONLY REACTS TO FIRE >> ERUPTION ( THE EARTH ELEMENT IS THE ELEMENT THAT STALAGMITE CREATES WHEN YOU USE IT)
BLESSED DROPS ONLY REACTS TO GALE >> DIVINE SABER ( THE WATER ELEMENT IS THE ELEMENT THAT BLESSED DROPS CREATES WHEN YOU USE IT)
THEN...
YOU HAVE MYSTIC ARTES THAT ALLOW YOU TO PERFORM GRAND FINALE ATTACK (DISTINCTIVE ULTIMATE ATTACK) AGAINST ANY ENEMY REGARDLESS OF THEIR ELEMENT RESISTANCE, JUST PRESS R2 TO ACTIVATE >> USE ARCANE ARTES >> HOLD X BUTTON TO ACTIVATE.
EACH CHARACTER IS UNIQUE AND YOU GET TO UNLOCK 1ST VERSION MYSTIC ARTES AROUND LVL.30 WHILE 2ND MYSTIC ARTES REQUIRES AD SKILL CALLED (SPECIAL).
I LOVE JADE'S INDIGNATION (GREATEST HIT EVER MADE) JUST PRESS R2 >> STAND IDLY BY >> KEEP HOLDING R2 FOR 5 SECONDS.
THANKS FOR READING & COMMENT IF YOU LIKE!!
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