For instance, if the attack button is pressed, the player will have to go up to an enemy to hit. Manual allows the player to completely control a character. There are three settings in many Tales games for a player to control a character: Manual, Semi-Auto, and Automatic. Sometimes, these attacks have extra effects, such as reviving. The gauge for Over Limit varies between games. They are powerful attacks unleashed under special conditions, such as being in Over Limit.
Most noted among the abilities a character has are their mystic artes. There are also options to guard and even command allies. Various kinds of attacks can be performed by using direction and button combinations, and skills are assigned similarly, though they consume TP, or technical points, in most games. However, not all games limit the player to a single line in Tales of Rebirth, the character can switch between three lines, and Tales of the Abyss introduced Free Run, or the ability to run anywhere on the battlefield. It is an action-packed battle system, in which the player can only run back and forth on a single line, as the 'Linear' suggests, to attack the enemies, in a similar fashion to 2D fighting games. The Tales series is most notable for its Linear Motion Battle System (LMBS), which each Mothership Title has had some variation of.
