Tempest also includes a "Job" system, which is exactly what it sounds like: your hero takes on any number of different occupations in order to earn cash, gain experience, and learn new skills. Depending on where you aim, you can trade off between a greater probability of landing a hit and a greater potential for damage when you connect, but you also have to keep an eye on your own defense.Ĭombat is not necessarily an adventurer's only pastime, though. When you're fighting, the game shows a small overlay indicating areas of defense and advantage, whose size and positioning vary according to what weapons and armor you and your opponent are equipped with. The new battle system for PS2 takes advantage of the perspective's possibilities - called the Active Initiative Battle System (Japan loves initialisms), it allows you to move around the shifting battlefield and thus affect the areas where you're vulnerable and able to attack. Once you've gone where you want to go, the world is drawn in realtime 3D and viewed from a first-person perspective, in both exploration and combat. Map movement in the game doesn't take much effort - just pick a location on the world map and you're there, ready to encounter whatever there is to see. Early on, though, you can simply travel around to see what you can see. Her adventures soon take on more significant implications, though, and a deep story promises to ensue once the game kicks into gear.
Yes, "her" - the lead in Tempest is a 17-year-old girl who leaves her home and foster father Adam in search of fame, fortune, heroic deeds and all the other things kids leave home to find in fantasy worlds.
Lunatic Dawn Tempest, like its PC predecessors, will build on the series' theme of "free adventure" with more opportunities to take your hero and her quest in whatever direction you choose. That's not to say that it doesn't have a bit of the Artdink touch, though. Artdink has a somewhat more balanced lineup in Japan, though - the Lunatic Dawn series, whose latest installment is coming to PS2, doesn't step too far beyond a formula recognizable to players of a relatively broad selection of RPGs.
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