Tears
The Tears are a type of entity usually found in the overworld.
Description
Tears are described as resembling floating water[1][2], with no immediately noticeable particularity. Upon contact, they can freeze people in time.
In the overworld
In START AGAIN: a prologue, tears move about slowly, one tile at a time, in any direction. They can be interacted with, but cannot freeze the Siffrin in time without them first being prompted.[3] When running into a Tear directly after denying the prompt, it is possible to be frozen without the prompt appearing again.
In In Stars and Time, tears are stationary. As with START AGAIN, they can be used to loop back in time, but only do so after prompting the player with a confirmation message. However, unlike START AGAIN, the prompt is not triggered by proximity to a Tear, and instead only by actual interaction using a button press.
Combat
"(The King sobs.)
(Tears appeared to help the King...)"[Tears being summoned in START AGAIN: a prologue]
During his boss fight in START AGAIN, The King summons Tears to help him about halfway through the battle.
Although they do not shield him completely (he can still be targeted by attacks), they can take damage for him, as well as deal stat debuffs and freeze party members in time. As they are not of any Craft type, moves will be neither strong or weak against them.
Trivia
- The party knowing what Sadnesses are[4] but not knowing what the Tears are[5] implies they only exist in the House, and are not due to Sadnesses; which in turn suggests they are all specifically the King's.
- The only time Tears can freeze the player/Siffrin with no warning, outside of battle, is in START AGAIN: a prologue: upon obtaining the second Star Crest and using it to clear one of the rows of Tears (past the barrel storage room), one can choose to simply walk into the second row, which prompts an immediate Game Over.
References
- ↑ "(Floating water.) (You feel like you shouldn't touch it...)" - Siffrin in In Stars and Time DEMO.
- ↑ "WAH! Wh-what? What is it??? Is it the water? Should I... not touch the weird floating water?" - Isabeau in In Stars and Time DEMO.
- ↑ "(The tear is getting close.) (Let it touch you?)" - in START AGAIN: a prologue
- ↑ "[Of course you do, considering you've been fighting Sadnesses for a while now! Anyway...]" - battle tutorial in In Stars and Time DEMO.
- ↑ (See: the cutscenes where Tears are introduced in both START AGAIN: a prologue and In Stars and Time DEMO.)
- ↑ "Two rows of those tears means two different crests. Don't go walking through that second row over there without finding a second crest." - Odile in START AGAIN: a prologue.
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