Action JRPG is the modern branch of Japanese role-playing that swaps traditional turn-based battles for real-time action combat: you directly control the character — dodging, striking and unleashing skills to the rhythm of the fight. It keeps the JRPG's long stories, parties and levelling systems, but adds the reflexes of an action game — an approach that opens Japanese RPGs to a new generation of players wary of turn-based mechanics.
Valisthea lives by its Mothercrystals — and dies by them a little more each day. Clive Rosfield, the eldest son the Phoenix rejected, bears the blame for his brother's death through thirteen years of slavery and sets out to destroy the Mothercrystals one by one — only to discover that behind every tragedy stands a god who has raised mankind like livestock, waiting for the day of harvest.