Towns and Villages
In towns and villages, you will find armories and inns. You can spend money (OTH) to rest at inns or buy items at shops.
Inns
Staying at an inn will completely restore your party's HP and cure all status ailments.
Armories
Here you can buy and sell items. Push left or right on the directional buttons or left analog stick to change the item category. From the subsequent list, you can choose the item and the quantity to buy or sell.
When viewing the list, press the button to sort the list, and the L2 and R2 buttons to switch between characters.
Purchase Screen
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Item Category: Shows the category of the listed items.
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Abilities: Shows the prospective ability values for the character if the selected item is equipped. (Abilities that increase are displayed in green; abilities that decrease are displayed in red.)
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Item Explanation: Press the button to page through the explanations.
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Item: Item name, cost, quantity, and the maximum you can purchase are shown.
Valued Customer Items
In armories, you may see mysterious items with question marks displayed instead of a name. These are Valued Customer Items. Many of these are rare goods or limited items that can only be purchased at that particular shop, so you definitely want to try to acquire as many as you can.
Becoming a Valued Customer
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To become a valued customer, you must shop at the store frequently. The more you buy, the more items will be revealed.
Collecting Materials
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To have a shop make you a Valued Customer Item, you will have to supply them with the right materials. You can acquire many kinds of materials by breaking off certain monster parts in battle.
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To find out what monster parts will provide what kind of materials, read the shopkeeper's notes that you can find in armories.
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Required Materials: Shows the kind and quantity of materials required to make the item. The number in parentheses indicates how much of the material you currently possess.
Selling Materials
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When you have collected the materials, sell enough of them to the shop so that they can make the item. The materials they need to make an item are displayed in yellow.
Having the Item Made
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Once you have sold the materials to the shop, you will be able to buy as many Valued Customer Items as could be made from the materials you collected and sold.
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You cannot have a Valued Customer Item made for you if you do not know its name, even if you sell the required materials to the shop.
Actions in the Field
You can carry out a range of actions while on the field. You need to choose the right action for each situation if you want to progress.
Movement
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directional buttons or left analog stick
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In general, you can only move to the left or right. At certain points in the game, a navigation icon will appear, and you will be able to move further inwards or outwards.
Crouch
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Down directional button or left analog stick down
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Press down on the directional buttons or the left analog stick to crouch.
Talk / Check
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You can talk to people in the game. Press the button to greet them. Use the same button to investigate items of interest.
Opening Bags and Treasure Chests
You can open bags and treasure chests and acquire their contents by standing close to them and pressing the button. But be careful—sometimes they are booby-trapped. If you do trigger a trap, try to get out of the way as quickly as possible.
Jump
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Jump to reach higher areas and get past obstacles.
Swing Sword
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Swing your sword to break certain objects as well as crystals generated by photons. In addition, if you strike an enemy to initiate a battle, your party will begin with maximum AP levels.
Push
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left/right directional buttons or left analog stick
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In dungeons, you will encounter objects that can be moved if you push them. Sometimes, if you place them in the right location, they may activate devices or open doors. It is often worth your while to experiment.
Projecting Photons
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You can fire photons at enemies, their residual psychic energy, and certain other objects. Doing so will seal the target inside a crystal.
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Push up on the directional buttons or left analog stick to aim upwards at a 45° angle, or push down on the directional buttons or left analog stick to aim downwards at 45°. Photons rebound off walls and floors.
Crystals
You can use crystals as platforms and stepping-stones. Contact with a crystallized enemy will not initiate battle. But be careful—the crystals weaken and eventually disintegrate after a short period of time.
Teleporting
After creating a crystal with photons, fire photons once more to exchange places with the crystal. You can use this power to reach higher ground or otherwise inaccessible places.
If you hold down the button while teleporting, you will be able to jump in midair. Use this technique to reach high ledges.
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Hit the crystal with a photon and... you change places!
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You can even jump in midair!
View Full Map
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Press the R2 button when you are in a dungeon to view a map of all the areas you have explored.
Full Map Display