Side attacks force the enemy's first turn to be after all your party takes their actions. Back attacks in your favor will skip the enemy's first turn. When initiating an encounter, there's four distinct possibilities based off your and enemy's approach, a normal battle, a back attack (in your favor), a side attack, and back attack (your formation is broken). Knowing and exploiting these flaws in enemy movement will allow you to navigate through dungeons quicker and easier, and is necessary for parts of the run where you grind Tech Points. The important one to learn is Water Dragons, which move in a 2-1 pattern, where they two steps toward you, and then take one step in the direction that they're facing. Lizards and Snakes will pause for a number of steps after following you for a few steps. Beasts and Demons will charge forward after a number of steps. What this entails is pausing after every step until the enemy you're dancing around moves into a position that will let you run by.Įvery type of enemy has a movement pattern, and each pattern usually has some sort of flaw or special movement baked in. Maneuvering around enemies in tight area is done by pause dancing. Most attack magic will also write to the memory address with a big exception being Blades of Wind, which uses its own special damage calculation that is less exploitable. Most normal attacks will overwrite the stat, and even Life Water will write the caster's Magic stat to the address Reverse Delta uses.

What writes to the stat value that is stored is a bit inconsistent. Due to this, it's possible to 'store' a stat value for later use with Reverse Delta as Reverse Delta doesn't overwrite the stat that is uses for its own damage calculation.

Reverse Delta in the remaster has a different damage calculation than in the original, one that's used for some attacks in Romancing Saga 3, where instead of utilizing the user's strength stat, damage calculation is instead based off of the last stat value used for damage calculation. It's faster to mash, but getting the right rhythm for this mash can be tricky. Holding down Confirm at the end of combat will automatically scroll through stat ups, drops and Tech Points gained. It's slightly faster to mash, but is convenient if you don't feel like doing so. In combat, holding down Confirm will automatically go through each characters actions after a small wait. In some cases, it will also choose dialog options automatically. Holding down any button other than the D-Pad will advance text automatically.

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