Well this pretty much confirms that the battle system is going to be action based rather than turn based like the previous 2 titles. Kinda reminds me of 3D Tales games, which is not a bad thing at all.

I have to say, I'm pretty interested in this game.

Ar Tonelico always borderred on the action RPG battle system anyway. I think this'll work very well since you always had button mashing to do while your casters prepped their song magic. My only qualm with the idea is that I hope they still allow how you fight with the melee attackers to affect the properties of the song your casters are singing, and I'm not sure how defending the casters will play a part in the game with this change.

edit: also I really hope they go with an action RPG system that emphasizes damage mitigation in some way.  I really dislike action RPG systems where you can just whack away without thinking much about what your enemy is doing.

The gameplay looks great. I'll definitely get it.

Spell system looks interesting. From what I can gather, it pauses the game, you go into this top-down perspective and choose where to hit (a big circle and a line in this video).

I would be ashamed to show this game to the public like that.

I know I'll be playing this in my room alone, with doors closed

Pervert

Turn based RPGs are becoming a dying breed :(

hope they add strategy elements to new the battle system

It looks bloody excellent.

Looks awful and the tune at the end was pretty annoying.

Son1x said: I know I'll be playing this in my room alone, with doors closed and LOCKED!

fixed.