The battle gameplay from the Nintendo DS version, showing the battle on the top screen and selections on the bottom screenLike previous entries in the Tales series, Tales of Hearts is an. The game is split into two main areas: the field map and battlefield arenas triggered upon encountering an enemy. The battle arenas are fully rendered and played out in 2D. Characters are rendered outside pre-rendered cutscenes as 2D character sprites against 3D backgrounds.

For the original version, the top screen shows the main visuals, while the bottom screen shows the navigation map and other functions. Battles are triggered by running into enemy sprites rather than appearing as random encounters.

29 rows  Got a Tales of Hearts R walkthrough, FAQ or Guide? Use the submission form, or email them.

As with previous titles, Skits, extra conversations between characters, are available for the player to trigger.The battle system is a variant on the Linear Motion Battle System (LMBS) from multiple Tales titles: an action-based combat system similar to a: button commands instantly trigger various attacks and actions, and different attacks string together to form combos. The system used in Hearts is called the 'Combination Aerial LMBS'. Up to three characters participate in battle, with one controlled by the player and the other two controlled via. The two AI characters be assigned to perform different actions such as healing or attacking. The 'Combination' element refers to a special gauge that fills up and can be used to perform special attacks with party members not assigned in battle. A second 'Emotion' gauge determines how many moves a character can perform: the gauge fills while the character is blocking, and is depleted by performing actions. The lower the gauge is, the lower a character's defenses are.

Characters can employ special attacks called 'Combination Blasters,' Hearts ' take on the series' staple Mystic Artes ('Hi-Ougis' in the Japanese version). Defeated enemies drop items and materials that can be used to level up character abilities, with certain combinations of items yielding certain abilities and skills. Once enough skills have been learned, a character's weapon can be upgraded via three separate skill trees, with the abilities and power of the character changing according to the choice of skills beforehand. ^ Yamamoto, Naoki (16 December 2008).

(in Japanese). Tales of Hearts Developer's Blog. Archived from on 26 April 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014.

Romano, Sal (2 July 2014). From the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014. Romano, Sal (2 July 2014). From the original on 5 August 2014.

Retrieved 12 August 2014. ^ Sahdev, Ishaan (9 October 2013). From the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014. ^ VanOrd, Kevin (10 October 2008).

From the original on 4 September 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2014. ^ Yip, Spencer (8 November 2012). From the original on 14 August 2014.

Retrieved 10 August 2014. Hicks, Chris (7 July 2008). From the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2014. Geddes, Ryan (10 October 2008). From the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2014.

^ Tanaka, John (26 August 2014). From the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2014. ^. Game Watch Impress. 26 December 2008.

From the original on 9 April 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2015. ^ Romano, Sal (19 December 2012). From the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2014.

^ Yip, Spencer (20 November 2012). From the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014.

Cabral, Matt (29 April 2014). From the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2014. Yip, Spencer (29 November 2012). From the original on 14 August 2014.

Retrieved 11 August 2014. Vitale, Adam (11 November 2014). From the original on 24 January 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2015.

Moriarty, Colin (3 July 2014). From the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2014.

Yip, Spencer (17 January 2013). From the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014. Romano, Sal (7 January 2013). From the original on 12 August 2014.

Retrieved 10 August 2014. テイルズオブハーツ公式コンプリートガイド Tales of Hearts Official Complete Guide (in Japanese). Bandai Namco Games. 1 January 2009. P. 504. ^ 'A Meeting Between New Hearts RPG' reborn, Tales of Hearts R will be released in 2013. Dengeki Online (in Japanese).

8 November 2011. From the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2014. ^ テイルズオブハーツ. Tales of Magazine (in Japanese). 1 December 2008. Majesty 2 royal feat.

^. Behind the Voice Acttors. From the original on 25 August 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2014.

^ Romano, Sal (25 January 2013). From the original on 11 October 2013.

Retrieved 26 November 2014. (in Japanese).

22 November 2013. From the original on 26 August 2014.

Retrieved 25 August 2014. ^. (in Japanese). 21 February 2013. From the original on 10 June 2013.

Retrieved 25 August 2014. ^. (in Japanese). 18 July 2008. From the original on 9 April 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2008. Miyadera, Naoto (28 November 2008).

(in Japanese). Tales of Hearts Developer's Blog. Archived from on 9 April 2014.

Retrieved 11 August 2014. ^. (in Japanese). 14 July 2008. From the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014. テイルズオブハーツ公式コンプリートガイド Tales of Hearts Official Complete Guide (in Japanese).

Bandai Namco Games. 1 January 2009. P. 486. Miyadera, Naoto (9 December 2008). (in Japanese).

Tales of Hearts Developer's Blog. Archived from on 26 November 2009.

Retrieved 11 August 2014. Gifford, Kevin (1 April 2009). Archived from on 12 November 2015.

Retrieved 12 November 2015. Tanaka, Yoshimasa (8 December 2008). (in Japanese). Tales of Hearts Developer's Blog. Archived from on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2014.

Koike, Manabu (14 November 2008). (in Japanese). Tales of Hearts Developer's Blog. Archived from on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2014.

^ Tony (26 May 2013). From the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014. ^.

(in Japanese). 23 September 2008. From the original on 12 August 2014.

Retrieved 11 August 2014. Yip, Spencer (12 September 2012). From the original on 16 April 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014. ^. (in Japanese).

30 November 2012. From the original on 10 April 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2014. Eugene (15 September 2013). From the original on 14 August 2014.

Retrieved 11 August 2014. ^. (in Japanese). 20 December 2012. From the original on 12 August 2014.

Retrieved 11 August 2014. ^ Loo, Egan (25 October 2012). From the original on 13 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014.

^ Martin, Liam; Fahmy, Albaraa (22 April 2014). From the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014. Viva! Tales of Magazine (in Japanese).

(September 2013): 150. 27 September 2013. Missing or empty title=. Viva ☆ Tales of Magazine (in Japanese). (October 2013). 28 August 2013. Missing or empty title=.

Tales of Magazine (in Japanese). (February 2013): 9. 27 December 2012. Missing or empty title=. ^ Gann, Patrick. From the original on 2 August 2014. Retrieved 13 November 2014.

^. From the original on 28 July 2014. Retrieved 13 November 2014. From the original on 28 July 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014. (in Japanese).

From the original on 26 April 2013. Retrieved 15 September 2014. ^ Riley, Adam (8 December 2008). From the original on 28 December 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014. Sahdev, Ishaan (30 August 2009). From the original on 19 July 2013.

Retrieved 26 November 2014. Nelkin, Sarah (8 March 2013). Archived from the original on September 15, 2014. Retrieved 15 September 2014.

CS1 maint: unfit url. (in Japanese). PlayStation Japan. From the original on 30 May 2013.

Retrieved 24 January 2015. Romano, Sal (23 December 2012). From the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 15 September 2014.

Romano, Sal (28 February 2013). From the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 15 September 2014. Romano, Sal (25 January 2012).

From the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014. ^ Romano, Sal (27 January 2012). From the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014. Romano, Sal (28 January 2012).

From the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014. Tony (3 August 2014).

From the original on 4 August 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2014. Wallace, Kimberley (11 June 2014). From the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014.

^ Ciolek, Todd (31 December 2014). From the original on 31 December 2014. Retrieved 31 December 2014. Romano, Sal (25 September 2014).

From the original on 25 September 2014. Retrieved 25 September 2014. ^ Romano, Sal (10 October 2014). From the original on 10 October 2014.

Retrieved 10 October 2014. ^ (in Japanese). From the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014. (in Japanese). From the original on 17 March 2013. Retrieved 12 August 2014.

^. From the original on 8 December 2014. Retrieved 4 September 2014. ^. From the original on 8 December 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014.

^ Gifford, Kevin (10 December 2008). Archived from on 12 November 2015.

Retrieved 10 August 2014. ^ Gifford, Kevin (27 February 2013). From the original on 12 August 2014.

Retrieved 11 August 2014. ^ Wallace, Kimberley (10 November 2014). From the original on 11 November 2014.

Retrieved 14 November 2014. ^ Fitch, Andrew (10 November 2014). EGM Media, LLC. From the original on 14 November 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2014.

^ MacGregor, Kyle (12 November 2014). From the original on 12 November 2014.

Retrieved 14 November 2014. ^ Beck, Adam (10 November 2014).

Hardcore Gamer. From the original on 8 December 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2014. ^ Barker, Andrew.

From the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014. ^ McCarroll, John (11 November 2014). From the original on 12 November 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2014. Baker, Michael (27 April 2017). From the original on 27 April 2017.

Retrieved 27 April 2017. Ouden, Adriaan den (November 2014). From the original on 10 June 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2017.

^. (in Japanese). 9 January 2009.

From the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2012.

^. Dengeki Online (in Japanese). 26 December 2008.

From the original on 3 July 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014. 17 February 2009.

From the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014. Famitsu Game White Paper 2009. P. 395. Sahdev, Ishaan (13 March 2013). From the original on 12 November 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2014.

Dengeki Online (in Japanese). 14 June 2013. From the original on 30 June 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2014. Dengeki Review: テイルズオブハーツ アール (Vita). (in Japanese). 28 February 2013.Primary referencesBandai Namco Studios, 7th Chord (11 November 2014).

Tales of Hearts R. Lithia: Eons ago, the Mineran race flourished, boasting a culture highly skilled in the use of Will artes. But such prosperity led to greed and decadence, and our weak Spirias soon turned against each other. During the course of the unending Will artes war, a weapon was born. / Ines: The xeroms! / Lithia: Yes. Xeroms were engineered to be living weapons that fed off Spirias in order to fuel their monstrous evolutions.

Though primitive, you Organicans boasted powerful Spiria, which attracted the attention of we Minerans. / Hisui: So you decided to turn people from our world into xerom chow. / Lithia: We invaded your planet and enslaved your ancestors to power the xeroms' evolutions. No words can express my profound regret. However, know that some among us were gentle souls who detested these actions. My elder sister Fluora was one such person, and she dedicated her life to ensuring peace between realms.

She created the Somas and the fortress of Mysticete so that we might be able to bridge our Spiria. Lithia: This power!

It is exactly like- No. Such a thing should not be. It cannot be!

Forgive me, Kohaku! I have no alternative!. Kor: That's a piece of Kohaku's Spiria Core. / Hisui: So it ain't all gone then? / Kor: Well, her core shattered, but it looks like the shard containing her kindness stayed behind. Kor: That light must be pointing to a shard of Kohaku's Spiria Core.

Johnson's manager, Ali Abdelaziz,.Johnson (22-6) has had one of the more unique MMA careers in terms of weight, considering he made his 2007 UFC debut as a welterweight and went on to compete as high as heavyweight in 2013 during a brief run with World Series of Fighting between UFC stops.Can't get enough UFC? - where I break down everything you need to know in the Octagon. Two years after an abrupt retirement, former UFC light heavyweight title challenger Anthony 'Rumble' Johnson is making a comeback The 35-year-old Johnson, who has added an incredible amount of muscle to his frame since stepping away following his UFC 210 title fight loss to Daniel Cormier, plans to return to active UFC competition in 2020 as a heavyweight.

We should check it out. / Hisui: hits Kor Check it out? CHECK IT OUT? This ain't a freakin' field trip, kid!

And you're certefiably insane if you think I'll let the likes of you hang around Kohaku! / Kor: Okay, fine. But I'm still going! Kohaku's problem is my fault, after all.

I have to fix it. I have to make it right.

Silver: Let me tell you a little story. In the Age of Stones, the world was ruled by an alien race with bodies of crystal. The aliens, called the Minerans, invented many of the weapons of Will - including xeroms, Somas and your mechanical friend there. All of these are controlled by the Forest of Thorns, and the Mineran known as Lithia is the key. Of course, I'm not telling the mechanoid anything it doesn't already know.

/ Kunzite: What I know is that you are another petty human bent on exploiting Mineran technology for your own ambitions. / Silver: Not ambition, my friend.

I wish to mold this world into a utopia filled with noble and true Spirias. And such a cause requires great power. Lithia: Creed, too, once desired peace, although the thing he created in that service was an abomination. The queen of all xeroms.

The 'Savior System', capable of absorbing Spirias from afar. You know her as 'Gardenia'. The 'black moon'. The white moon was not always white. Once it was a vibrant blue planet, and our home world of Minera. But 2000 years ago, Creed and I activated Gardenia, and in the process caused our own planet to calcify.

We thought we were doing right. We only wanted to remove the seeds of war from our people's Spiria. But we made a horrible mistake.

Our world was doomed the instant we set Gardenia in motion. Lithia: Having expelled each other's Spirias from our physical bodies, Creed and I existed in Organican hosts for millennia. Changing hosts over countless generations, we waged a secret and endless war for control of Gardenia. / Hisui: So what's Creed plan now he's got his little science project off and running again?

/ Lithia: Creed believes that the Spiria of all Minerans are alive within Gardenia. He also believes that Fluora is alive, despite her sacrificing herself to the beast so she might escape. He intends to reactivate Gardenia, and resurrect my sister, along with our entire planet. Kardia: Stay away from my kid, bastard!

You haven't SEEN dangerous until you've run into an angry mother! / Creed: Impressive. But without your friends, it will take more than a flimsy seal to contain me! Wh-What's this? Where is this new power coming from? / Kardia: Aw, did you help Mommy? Good to know I have a kid who listens!

That seal was just patchwork though. It won't be holding him forever. Mommy tried her best. Kor: You remember Gramps' last words, right?

'Do not hate. To not succumb to anger in the heat of battle.' I screwed that up about as badly as a guy can. Now Creed's back to destroy the world, and it's my fault. It all comes back to me.

Everyone would be better off if I died! / Kohaku: That's not true! Because you're alive, I was able to meet you. And meeting you has made me happy. 'Even the darkest place has a little bit of light.'

You taught me that!. Kunzite: This phenomenon is the preliminary stage of calcification! / Hisui: Your Spiria's that far gone, Lithia?

I had no idea. / Lithia: I trust you two can keep it a secret? / Hisui: But! / Lithia: I will not perish so easily! Not before I've sealed Gardenia away once and for all.

Kunzite: Clinoseraph looped time within his Nexus, replaying the day of Minera's calcification over and over. Therefore, it is logical to assume that I can control time within my Nexus as well. If I can replay time, I can stop it. And if Master Lithia sleeps in such a state, she can live on.

Closing narration: There lies a princess fair and dear, who has slept for over a thousand years, amidst a bramble of thorny spires. The love of friends is a radiant beam, and to them she grants a sword of dreams.

An ebony moon by the hero slew. An ivory moon to be born anew. The whale of legend still does fly, but now it is a star in the dark night sky, to soothe the sleep of you and I. The princess dreams in her forest of thorns.

The prayers of people her heart warms. She is protected by her metal knight, as two stars shine out eternal light. And she is always dreaming. Dreaming her world will awaken. Ending CreditsExternal links.

(in Japanese). (in Japanese). (in Japanese).