Orbitia Callus

Orbitia Callus - The Legend of Zerandus (オービティア・カルス - ゼランダスの伝説, Ōbitia Karusu - Zerandasu no Densetsu), or simply just Orbitia Callus is a tactical role-playing crossover game developed by The John Studios and Ubisoft Milan, with assistance from Monolith Soft, Sanzaru Games and Ubisoft Paris, and was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It was released exclusively for the Nintendo Switch worldwide on October 22, 2029. It is promoted as being the spiritual successor to the Project X Zone games.

Gameplay
The gameplay was inspired by the mechanics seen in both Namco x Capcom and Project X Zone. The player is put in control of several chosen characters in a grid-based tactical movement from an overhead perspective. In this, the character has some unique movement distances, some can walk while others float, the latter can pass through some obstacles that the former can't.

When engaged in a fight with an enemy, it shifts into a horizontal view and the character can attack based on the move the player chose, whenever is physical or special, it can also perform a status move to either increase a stat or heal at the cost of MP. By filling up a type of gauge when successfully used an attack, the player can perform a Super Move that deals powerful damage, or a Team Up Move to attack 1 or 4 enemies with a partner or two. Unlike Namco X Capcom though, it uses the traditional types of Class jobs for each character. Be careful though that when a character is defeated, they are erased for the rest of the chapter.

Speaking of which, the game is split into 5 prologues and 45 chapters, which makes it 50 in total. In some chapters, you can recruit an ally, which becomes permanent for the rest of the game.

The characters are split in three categories, Solo Units, Pair Units and Assist Units. Solo Units are ones that fight alone, Pair Units is when a character pairs up with another one, and Assist Units are used once-per-battle for each Solo or Pair Units. Most character also appear as shopkeepers, allowing the player to buy healing items or equipment for what unit to wear after a chapter is over, which can be found in alot of treasure chests, some hidden.

Livy from Winx Club acts as a tutorial guide for the basic and advanced types on how to play the game in the first early chapters, but from future chapters onwards, she will save your progress by sending the player a message from Faragoda, which was not possible in the prologues except for the final one.

After beating a specific chapter, a minigame will be unlocked, which rewards you with a specific amount of zenny after beating it. Completing the game for the first time will unlock a challenge stage, which is a stage set its own rules and the player must complete one to unlock the next challenge, which are 10 in total.

Synopsis
The year is 20XX AD. In Japan, there is a task force called Mitsuraka Force, whose job is to send out the best fighters from around Japan to protect the balance of multiple realities from darkness, which are Fantasy, Modern and Future, lead by their founder, the mysterious 43-year old woman Akari Tsujimoto.

The story focuses on the 21-year old Taiji Yamamoto, a brawler expert who used to work for Mitsuraka Force 10 years ago. After going freelance, he is greeted by Zanzeeba, a member of Okuromushi, a demonic group dedicated on merging three realities into one distorted hellworld for his master, the great demon king Seetoth. During the ifhgt, he is protected by his 18-year old childhood friend Tanaka Mizu, a girl who can channel strange psychic energy using her hands who is also a former member of Mitsuraka Force, forcing Zanzeeba to retreat.

Together, they travel to different realities, many of which ally with Taiji and Tanaka to fight against the evil forces and restore the now broken balance by finding the seven legendary artifacts, some of them live in their native universes. Legends say that if these artifacts where used together, they will awake the legendary god Zerandus, who slept throughout the vast emptiness of cosmos he created for billions of years so that life can be created as well.

Characters
The game has 60 playable characters, 15 are Pair Units, 20 are Solo Units, and 25 are Assist Units.

Assist Units
NOTE: Characters with * symbol are initially a boss unit.