There are two types of battles, story and free battle. Story battles advance the main story while free battles are where you can revisit previous areas and level up characters and collect items. Before starting a battle you will have to select characters to add to the party. The party has a max limit of four characters. Once confirmed, the victory and failure conditions are shown. Some battles may have a sub mission condition that rewards an item when completing. You can review the conditions during battle from the menu by pressing 
. You can press 
to survey the map and view the status of characters and enemies.
Battles are turn based and the right side of the bottom screen shows the turn order. During each turn, the following commands are available by pressing 
.
- Item
- Skill
- Attack
- Guard
- Finish
Characters spend AP to perform an action. They start with 0 AP at the start of battle and earn 1 AP at the start of their turn. Normal attacks, using items, and guarding cost 1 AP. Each skill has its own AP cost. Selecting Finish will end the character's turn and not spend AP.
The blue circle around a character shows the area where they can move. Other characters and enemies can block movement if there is not enough space to go around. When attacking, a red area shows where it will hit.
Enemies are divided into groups that move and attack together. Each group has a leader that can summon more members by spending HP. When the leader's HP is low, they will stop summoning. Some battles have generators which will spend HP to summon more leaders. When a leader is defeated, any remaining members of the group will stay and one member will become the leader.
When a weak enemy is hit, they will launch back and knock into other enemies defeating them similar to "bowling." Leaders do not get knocked back, but they still take damage. Each enemy defeated in a turn adds to the combo count and defeating at least 10 will earn an extra turn. Defeated enemies drop crystals and may drop items which are automatically acquired.
Status Effects[edit]
Buffs[edit]
- Revitalize
- Regains a small percentage of HP every turn.
- Enthuse
- Reduces AP consumption for skills.
- Fortify
- Increases PHYS ATK.
- Nurture
- Increases PHYS DEF.
- Focus
- Increases ELEM ATK.
- Safeguard
- Increases ELEM DEF.
- Sprint
- Increases SPEED.
- Stimulate
- Increases Critical Hit rate.
- Hone
- Increases Critical Hit rate to 100%.
- Endure
- Revives the target after Death one time.
- X-Fortify
- Greatly increases PHYS ATK.
- X-Nurture
- Greatly increases PHYS DEF.
- X-Focus
- Greatly increases ELEM ATK.
- X-Safeguard
- Greatly increases ELEM DEF.
- Wall
- A skill used by fiends; renders them invincible.
- Lachryma Awakening
- Greatly increases Luchs' PHYS ATK and MOVE range.
- Wreathed in Ash
- Greatly increases Charlotte's Flame affinity.
- Kuhlentragen
- Greatly increases Beatrix's Frost affinity.
- Testificare
- Adelheid sacrifices a turn in exchange for greatly increasing her next attack.
Debuffs[edit]
Poison- Reduces a small percentage of HP each turn
Subdue- Increases AP consumption for skills
Enfeeble- Decreases PHYS ATK
Rattle- Decreases ELEM ATK
Neglect- Decreases PHYS DEF
Torment- Decreases ELEM DEF
Fear- Prohibits use of skills
Enervate- Decreases AP recovery rate
Slow- Decreases SPEED
Curse- Prohibits all actions except for movement
Bind- Prohibits movement
Stupefy- Skips one turn
Death- Reduces HP to 0
Field Items[edit]
Some maps have field items that can be attacked. Healing bottles will restore HP to the attacker. Bombs will explode damaging all units nearby including allies. Generators may spawn additional healing bottles and bombs.