Xenogears

Xenogears is a role-playing video game developed and published by Squaresoft. It was released in 1998 for the Sony PlayStation.

Playable characters

 * Fei Fong Wong
 * Elhaym Van Houten
 * Citan Uzuki
 * Bartholomew Fatima
 * Ricardo Banderas
 * Maria Balthasar
 * Billy Lee Black
 * Emeralda Kasim
 * Chu-Chu

Gameplay
Xenogears take a top down perspective in a 3D world with 2D character sprites. Battles take place in the same way. Gears are modeled in 3D in battle. Battle uses the ATB format to attack with a max of 3 characters in your party at once.

Battles
Battles over world encounters are mostly random and overworld enemies can't be seen. In battle each player has a few options shared amongst all of them, Run, Item, Defend, and Attack. Special moves are called different things depending on the character, either Chi for Fei, Spirit for Rico, and Ether for everyone else. All characters besides Maria and Chu-Chu have another option called "Combo" where you can string together multiple death blows given you have enough AP.