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The game encourages you to do well in battles by assigning you a grade for the battle and awarding you with more EXP, money and items the higher your grade. For example there is a status effect that makes it so only a max of one atb gauge will fill, another that makes it so you can't move but can attack, and a complimentary one that makes it so you can move but not attack. Status effects fit the battle system well. If you hold down the menu/attack button during an attack and have enough gauge to use another action it will happen instantly after your attack ends, preventing an enemy action between your own. Your actions can also be 'chained' together. Both of these actions take a single gauge to use.

Your rider and your dragon each have a different default attack: the dragon shoots lasers that hit multiple enemies or points on an enemy, but the targets cannot be chosen, the rider has a gun that shoots one target of your choice. Certain actions (your Berserks which are like spells used by your dragon) can take up two or three gauges to be used. The ATB does not charge while you are moving, so you have to stay still to build up actions.

You have to move about the enemy to prevent being attacked, but keep in mind that the weak points of the enemy are often in unsafe zones! The enemy weak points sometimes require specific tactics to open as well.įor actions you have three ATB gauges that fill up one after the other. Green regions are safe and the enemy cannot attack in those regions, clear regions are where the enemy does their weaker attacks, and finally red regions are where the most powerful enemy attacks come out to play.

Each of quadrants can be coloured either green, clear or red. At any given time during a battle you can position yourself to one of the four quadrants (west, north, east, south) surrounding the enemy. The battle system is an innovative take on ATB where positioning matters. It wasn't long before I realized PDS might have one of my favourite RPG battle systems ever. Coming up on Panzer Dragoon Saga I knew it would be beautiful for a Saturn game (how could you go wrong with that art style anyway?), just like the first two games, and I knew it would have a great soundtrack, also like the first two games, but I didn't know much about how it would play.

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