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ELEMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS:

Of course, you can do battle without exploiting elemental characteristics. However, a torough study of the Elements and their effects will make you more effective on the battlefield.

There are four Elemtents: Fire, Ice, Lighting and Water. Fire can be used to combat Ice and Water to combat Lighting and vice versa.Thus, a Fire creature will prove highly vulnerable to Ice attacks.

The game uses tables to depict your opponents' elemental characteristics. The four Elements are shown using colours, while the abbreviations indicate how an opponent will react to the Element in question.

You may find that a weapons' ability may combine more than one Elemental characteristic. If this is the case, then the Element that inflicts the greatest damage on your opponent will automatically take precedence, while the weaker Elements are rendered redundant. The sequence is as followed: x 1.5, 1/2, /, +

SWITCHING CHARACTERS:

You can change any character during battle by using L1 to recall him from the battlefield during his turn and replacing him with any other party member. At the left of your screen you will see a window showing the characters who can be sent into the fray ( a sort of substitute bench). Replacing a character does not count as a turn: your substitute can participate in the battle immediately.

Within the Menus:

Directional Button: Move Cursor.

X Button: Confirm

O Button: Abort/ Return to previous menu

R1: Switch to next character.

R2: Scroll forward within a page or list.

L2: Scroll back within a page or list.

On the Sphere Grid

Directional Button: Move cursor

X Button: Call up selection (Move or Use)/ Confirm

O Button: Abort

Triangle Button: Acces Status Information/ Scroll trough Status Information

R1: Switch to next character

L1: Switch to previous character

L2: Change view

R2: Change view

Select: Zoom in or out

Menus:

Since your adventure will become increasingly dangerous, it is important that you adapt your characters to ensure that they are more suited to the hazards ahead. You can carry out these and other character-developing tasks in the main menu and sub-menus.

The Main Menu:

You can access the main menu by pressing the Triangle button and from there you can access all the sub-menus.

All current members of your party are listed on the left-hand side of the menu, and are sorted according to battle sequence. Next to the name, you'll see the characters current HP and MP; the figure to the right of the backslash refers to their current maximum levels.

At the lower edge of your screen, your total playing time, your current cash reserves and your current location are displayed. The sub-menus are unavailable at the start of the game. However your options will increase during the course of your adventure. In all menus, you will see Help messages at the top of your screen.

Sphere Grid Menu:

Characters can increase their levels and acquire new skill on the Sphere Grid. .

Item Menu:

Here you can browse trough the items you've collected as well as seeing how many items (shown in white) can be used directly within the menu with the Use command. For example, you can heal your character between battles, sending them into combat with optimum strenght. Sort allows you to sort items manually or automatically, ensuring that you always have a clear overview of them.

If you want to sort your equipment manually, you'll provided with information on each selected object. At the top left you'll see wich character can equip the equipment; next to that you'll see his/her current levels and equipment s/he's presently carrying, as well as any associated abilities. At the bottom right of the screen, you'll see the abilities associated with the selected object. However you can only switch your equipment in the Equip menu (or during battle).

Key Items will list the items in your possession wich you cannot use or equip, buth wich are valuable nonentheless. Take a look at the Items chapter to find out more about items and their abilities.