Slayers

The game system is similar to the early Final Fantasy games and other classic Japanese role-playing games of that era. In the main part of the game, the protagonist and her party navigates different areas from a top-down perspective, much like in many other SNES games. When in an area, the player can call up a start menu to access items, perform healing spells, search the immediate area for hidden items, and such. The player can travel between different areas (towns, cities, forests and so on) via a world map. During the battle, seen from a first-person view, the player can tell each character in their party to do one of six things: attack with a weapon, cast of one of the character's magic spells (for magic users), use a special technique that varies from character to character, give up the character's turn for higher defense, attempt to flee from a random encounter battles, or use one of the items from the inventory. The player can have up to four characters (including the protagonist Lina Inverse) in their party. They include almost all hero characters from both the main novel series (Gourry Gabriev, Amelia, Zelgadiss, Sylphiel, etc.) and from the Slayers Special series (Naga the Serpent, Lemmy, etc.) as released at that time. For most of the game, the player has no control over who is or is not in their party, as characters will join and leave as the game's plot determines. After finishing the main game, the player can also select three characters (with the fourth still automatically assigned) to play in a bonus scenario.