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Xenogears - A "Hero's" Journey

 Video:  Fei Destroys His Village The robot has some sort of mechanism for detecting its current occupant. It identifies Fei as an inexperienced "Lamb" pilot, and sets the controls to Easy mode! While amusing, the presence of difficulty modifiers in a combat robot's console seems quite impractical. Why wouldn't you want your war robot to be easy to handle? In any case, Fei is thrust into robot combat immediately afterwards. Robot combat is largely similar to character combat, with some key differences: 1. There are no items to heal robots, seeing as they're made of metal, not flesh and bone. 2. Robots need to build up attack levels by attacking before being able to execute combos. Consider it as their way of "warming" themselves up. 3. Speaking of which, every attack uses up fuel, a highly limited resource that can only be feasibly recharged at certain refueling robots/stations. So you need to be more careful with what attacks you throw out, or even what...