Saving the game is done by finding a telephone and calling Ness’ father. If the player-controlled characters are strong enough, weak enemies will escape from them instead of trying to attack when chased down, they will be defeated instantly. By winning battles, characters receive experience and thus become stronger. The game features “rolling HP meters” – when a character is dealt damage, it’s not all taken away from his HP right away, but instead his HP decreases slowly if the combat is ended quickly, even a massively damaging attack can leave a character with only minor injuries. Each turn, each of the characters in the party can attack with their weapons, use a special ability (some characters have powerful psychic powers that can hurt enemies, heal comrades and more some also have some other, unique special powers), use an item or try and escape. Unlike in the previous game, enemies are visibly walking on the screen. On the way, Ness and his friends will encounter a lot of enemies and battle them in turn-based combat. Together, these four friends have the power to defeat Giygas and save the world from his chaotic reign!

Ness, of course, is one of the chosen ones, and he must find the other three children: Paula, a young girl with remarkable psychic powers, Jeff, a mechanical genius, and Poo, the young Prince of Dahlaam. Buzz Buzz tells him that in the future, an evil alien being known as Giygas has conquered the world, and the only one who can stop him are four young kids: three boys and a girl. As he rushes out of bed and up to a nearby hill, he encounters a strange meteor, carrying a single passenger: a mysterious insect-like being named Buzz Buzz. Young Ness was asleep one night when a loud crashing noise awoke him suddenly.

In the year 199X, in the village of Onett, on the continent of Eagleland… It is a top-down role-playing game in which the heroes travel around Eagleland and various other, exotic countries, trying to end Giygas’ evil influence.

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