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The setting is somewhat interesting: The world of "Solum" has been engulfed by a corrosive mist called "Miasma", which threatens to bring about [[The End of the World
Gameplay allows the player to deploy up to six characters for battle. There is no [[Class and Level System]] in this game (well, technically there is, but it's so linear and non-interactive that it might as well not exist), but that's okay: the "Action Points" system, returning from ''[[Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth]]'', makes up for it. Every action you could possibly commit takes up a certain amount of AP, and you can mix-and-match any way you want, as long as you've got enough AP remaining in your budget. This gives you enormous flexibility and depth in character disposition: Spero can burn off all his AP moving, or attack three times, or go a short distance and then attack a couple times, or even go a short distance, hit once and then retreat again. You can't overburn like you could in ''Hoshigami'', so watch out: if Spero runs too far forward, he might not be able to do anything else once he gets there. Finally, you can also choose to burn extra AP at the end of a turn, so as to seed the character into the who-goes-next turn queue at an opportune moment.
The main gameplay gimmick was "Zone Effects" and their various uses. Each character would be surrounded by a configuration of yellow panels, which indicated their zone of influence, and could apply various effects to this zone; Spero's, for instance, increased all his allies' Dodge rates, while Dignus' inflicts various [[Standard Status Effects]] on his enemies. If two (or more) characters had a foe within their zones, they could initiate a [[Combination Attack]] for extra damage; if those characters had plot significance with each other, they would throw an extra-special attack animation for even ''more'' extra damage. Unlike most gimmicks, the enemy can—and does—use this feature against you.
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* [[Absurdly High Level Cap]]: You can level your characters up to lvl 99...which seems reasonable enough until you realize you don't need to be over 50 to finish the game. The point of 99 is to finish the optional [[Bonus Dungeon]].
* [[An Axe to Grind]]: Gallant, Viper, and the generic Berserker classes.
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* [[BFS]]: Avis.
* [[Bishonen]]: Avis, who for good or ill looks like the Disney version of the title character from ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''.
* [[Blade
* [[Catgirl]]: Tia. (Just a girl wearing kitten jammies, from the looks of it.)
* [[Corrupt Church]] - The Aeque, whose two branches either subscribe to [[Suicidal Pacifism]] or are [[Omnicidal Maniac|Omnicidal Maniacs]].
* [[Critical Encumbrance Failure]]: Each character had a "Weight" stat, which impacted how many AP it took to travel one square, determined by [[Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness|the modernity of their gear]] versus their current stats.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Grey
* [[Death Is Cheap]]: Played very straight. While there's no Revive spell, there is no permanent penalty whatsoever to losing a character in battle, besides a small drop in their LUCK stat. Keep in mind that this is a game by the team that made ''[[Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth]]'', wherein ''every'' death was either a [[Final Death]] or an immediate [[Game Over]].
* [[Death Ray]]: Golems have these
* [[Death Seeker]]: The apparent philosophy of the Aeque, who just want "a peaceful end". (The Nox, on the other hand, interpret the state of the world as "[[Gaia's Vengeance|God is angry at humanity]]" and have become [[Omnicidal Maniac|Omnicidal Maniacs]].)
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* [[Escort Mission]]: Any mission where Tia is a [[Guest Star Party Member]] has an element of this: If she dies, she's [[Lost Forever]]. Fortunately, she's quite the fighter to begin with. Unfortunately, one of these missions has her as an enemy...
* [[Gainaxing]]: My god, [http://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-06/sd-echidna.html Echidna]...
* [[Guide Dang It]]: recruiting Viser. This editor is still not sure how it's done... and he ''wrote'' one of [[
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Arrows can shoot around corners and through obstacles as long as the target is in range.
* [[Item Crafting]]
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* [[Narm]]: The voice-acting is... lackluster.
* [[Ominous Pipe Organ]]: The battle with {{spoiler|Viser}} and {{spoiler|Nebula}} takes place on one of these.
* [[Player
* [[Plucky Girl]]: Linea
* [[Power Fist]]: Tia; Adara, to a lesser extent, whose combat animation is just smacking people with her metal arm.
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* [[Verbal Tic]]: Tia. "Nya?"
* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: Avis
* [[We Cannot Go
* [[Whip It Good]]: Nebula
* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Adara.
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