Shouta
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I watched that combat video, and yeah it seems like Mystic Artes (they ain't called Blast Calibers anymore?) are tied to individual gauges.
Also the player brought up the Artes screen, starting at 4:44. It seems there's 5 spots for Artes now (back, forward, left, right, neutral) as opposed to 4 spots (going off Graces f's scheme, forward/back, left, right, neutral). However the neutral spot has some Japanese text in blue bound in brackets whereas the others are in white text, so if someone could translate that that would be great (unless you guys have already talked about this). Also I think the other four tabs correspond to the four elemental kamui modes, so each different fusion has their own Artes configuration.
Alisha doesn't seem to have a kamui mode, at least her Artes screen doesn't show any extra configurable Artes tabs, but that just might be because of story reasons. If Alisha doesn't get them, Roze probably won't either.
Blue is their Hi-Ougi/Blast Caliber/Hi-Artes/Flavor of the month translation.
I preordered this yesterday or the day before but I hadn't looked at any media for it beyond the first set, lol. The gameplay video looks good and the setting looks interesting. It even has a combination idea I had imagined for an RPG story when I was in high school, too lol.
Should be fine. I really enjoyed X1/X2 so this should be good stuff. Nice graphics are a plus not the main draw so as long as they make it look pleasant, I'll be fine.