Baten Kaitos- When Past and Future Collide

Baten Kaitos- When Past and Future Collide is a JRPG for the Sony Playstation 6 made by Namco and Italian company Bushido Games. It's the third game in the Baten Kaitos series.
== Gameplay ==
The game uses the Magnus card battle system seen in the first two games, but now in real time instead of turn-based.
Magnus cards are split into three types: Object Magnus, which are consumed after use (for instance, most food and healing item Magnus), Armor Magnus, which aren't consumed after use and lessen damage taken, and Weapon Magnus, which aren't consumed after use and contain weapons the player can use to attack the enemy. Each Weapon Magnus lasts for a certain time before dissipating, or it can be dissipated at will by playing another Magnus.
The player controls one of two party members (guests cannot be controlled directly), as they fly around the battlefield hitting enemies.
Sometimes, the player can perform a Finisher, a special technique. This is based on a Combo Meter which rises with the number of hits dealt.
Unlike many JRPGs, the damage cap is set at 1.000.000, not at 9999, while health caps at 10.000. Most human enemies and bosses have amounts of health comparable to the player and are susceptible to status ailments and instadeath, but self-heal constantly, meanwhile "giant monster"-type enemies and bosses tend to have long health bars (proportional to their size) but little to no healing moves. 
The player can also order teammates to use certain Finishers from the pause menu, like in the Tales series. 
If two player characters both have specific amounts of Combo Meter, they can unleash a FutariKogeki, which are combined finishers that require two or three party members at the same time. 
Sometimes, the player directly can intervene into battle by using Spirit Attacks: they have their own damage modifiers, which are proportional to character levels, and are not affected by character stats. 
The crafting system has been revamped: you don't craft new Magnus in battle, but can "fuse" two or more Magnus into one more powerful at specific shops. 
You can't sell Magnus and only certain human enemies drop money, though you can earn more by selling photos of the enemies or parts that are dropped by them.
 
Stats are: Attack (physical damage inflicted by weapons and Finishers), Elemental Attack (elemental damage inflicted by elemental weapons and Finishers, also influences the amount of HP healed by healing Finishers), Defense (physical damage taken), Elemental Defense (elemental damage taken), Speed (increases the number of hits that can be comboed per second and slows down weapon dissipation time), Skill (influences how much of the Combo Meter is filled by each attack and crit chance) and Luck (influences crit chance and chances of avoiding being hit by enemy crits, of surviving fatal damage, of inflicting and avoiding being inflicted by status ailments and of drawing a stronger Magnus from the deck). 
== Plot ==
The player is a Spirit sent from another dimension to watch over a man named Aidan Shimizu and a woman named Sakura Konohana. 
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There are dream sequences where you control Elisa "the Stormcrow" Raiya. He's a descendant of Kalas and Xelha from BK1, and lives in Adhafera Nova, on the island of Mira. He has deserted from the Knights of Mitsuba to protect a girl named Yuki Takemura, who is apparently wanted for "scientific" purposes, and now lives as a pirate. He forms a surrogate family with Yuki and an orphan he finds on the street, whom he names Sakura after his favorite flower.
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It's later revealed that those dreams are actually the present, and Aidan is not a Spiriter: the Stormcrow is the real Spiriter the player is supposed to watch over, and the Spirit the player represents is the young Sakura from the Stormcrow's age: Sakura was sent in the Spiritual Dimension (where time does not exist) and died. The Sakura that accompanies Aidan is just a construct made of Sakura's ideal self. 
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== Characters ==
=== Playable ===
Aidan Shimizu: An apparent Spiriter who lives hidden in the Ash Desert. He's apparently the last descendant of an ancient civilization. His main element is Fire and his weapon Magnus consist of guns and rifles. A lot of his Finishers are healing and status-based, making him the only character that can heal damage without using consumable Magnus. In terms of stats, he's almost completely based on elemental attack and defense, and the rest of his stats tend to be weak, except for skill. 
Sakura Konohana: A member of the Colony. She doesn't actually exist but is created from Sakura's ideal self. Her main element is Earth, and her weapons are swords, katana and lances. She's mediocre in terms of both defenses, but is fast and physically strong and has the best skill of the four main characters. 
Elisa Raiya: A pirate, also called Stormcrow, and a deserter from the Knights of Mitsuba. He's a Spiriter. His main element is Air, and his weapons are maces, hammers and axes. He's mostly an offensive powerhouse and defensive tank, and has decent skill, but lacks in speed, luck, elemental attack and elemental defense. 
Yuki Takemura: A girl wanted by the Knight of Mitsuba. Her main element is Water and her weapons are daggers, brass knuckles and throwing knives. She has a few healing finishers, but not as much as Aidan's. She's the fastest character out of the four protagonists, and has the best luck and elemental defense too, but lacks in most other stats. 
=== Guests/temporarily playable ===
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=== Antagonists ===
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=== Others ===
The Spirit: The player themselves, inserted into the game and watching over the characters: the player can choose their name and gender at the start, but they aren't directly seen and only rarely do they reply in conversations through unvoiced dialogue options (which affect affinity values). They are the force which links together the protagonists, allowing them to use FutariKogeki and sometimes coming to battle directly by using Spirit Attacks. Apparently bonded to Aidan, they are actually bonded to Elisa and connected to Aidan's POV by Sakura.
== Trivia ==
The four protagonists have names written in Kanji and are named after their element: 
* Aidan means "born from fire" in Gaelic, and as such is written in Kanji as "fire born". It's technically a nanori, as the Kanji for "fire" and "born" are read as "Aidan" only in Gaelic, not in Japanese.
* Sakura is a type of flower, referencing the plant-based attacks of the Earth elements.
* Raiya, as in Elisa Raiya, is Japanese for "lightning arrow", and the Air element involves lightning-based attacks. His name Elisa comes the Latin "Elysium", meaning "heaven" and is a nanori of the Kanji for "sky, heaven", normally read as "Ama" or "Ten".
* Yuki means "snow", referencing the ice attacks of the Water element.
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