Combat

(which is probably similar to CF Stories.)

Combat is still completely turn-based.
Fight!
The screen is laid out with the characters in the top third, the enemies in the middle third, the combat menus on the left of the bottom third, and an enemy list on the right of the bottom third. The big glowy borders are somewhat reminiscent of CF2.

The characters' vital statistics are located in the top portion. DX tells you in what order your characters will attack.

The menu on the bottom is very simple. The top command is fight, the middle is run, and the bottom is auto. Yes! Cosmic Fantasy has auto battle. Now, if you're bored with fighting all the little fights manually, auto will take care of them, quickly and easily.
From the fight menu, your choices are attack, magic, special(?), and item. They're in cascading menus. Fun.
Fight!
When you select an offensive selection from the fight menu, decide to try to run, or go on auto, the character's face shows up and they execute whatever command you gave.
This time around, a couple enemies animate.
When characters are hit, they grimace and the screen flashes a fun red colour. When someone's knocked out, they turn greyscale.
Whenever you gain a level, you get all your HP and MP back. Yay!

Changes from CF2:
Obviously, the menus are all redone. Run works much better, as well.
A plain ol' map

Interface

Characters seem a bit taller and the art looks a bit more detailled. When you walk around on the world map, you can walk straight into towns. They're not just icons any more. The interface looks a bit different, eh? Too bad you can't walk diagonally anymore. Nyan also plays the part of narrator, as well as being in the story. And, holding the I button lets you move faster.
Da menu
II brings up this menu. I then selects and II cancels. The menu from top to bottom is: item, magic, status, and equip.
Here's Rei's status screen. Wowee.Rei's status screen
It seems you can equip three weapons, a helmet, armour, and a shield. Rei starts off with a dagger, a circlet, a robe, and a leather wrist.

Other changes from CF2:
You can also walk into the stores now.

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(Last changed 1/31/02)