The story changed a bit, now focusing on the fact that the school was specifically designed to foster students
with elemental abilities.
If you've got allies with
different elemental abilities then it can also be hard to guarantee that the right ally combines their element with the right partner's ability.
You'll come across devices in - game that allow you to use the portal in the following ways: moving the toys around to solve puzzles by mixing primary colours; placing toys on coloured sections to warp them to corresponding areas in the game; playing Marco Polo as the portal lights up green or red while you look for hidden rifts; equipping
various elemental abilities depending on where you place your toy; and finally resizing your character as you move it between portal sections.
In battle a button is dedicated to awakening these powers, where enemy attacks will literally go through your body, allowing you to counter, with your enhanced
elemental abilities added to your attacks too.
Eight main stages, with several more late - game stages unlocked afterwards, challenge you to defeat each robot, which possess
powerful elemental abilities that put your default peashooter to shame.
In Magicka, the gameplay hook is the use of unique, and often, complex keypad combinations to
combine elemental abilities to create various magical attacks.
In addition, gone are the days where you buff a key character stat and hope for another party member to compliment it — each level provides you with points that you allocate to your stats in order to unlock
new elemental abilities or buffs / debuffs.
Elemental abilities like fire, ice, water, spark and wind (available via the broom and bird abilities) can be added to weapon - based powers such as the sword, hammer, yo - yo, whip and ninja.
Gems, which can also be found throughout the world are used in the weapon's forging process to provide additional effects — including a variety of
different elemental abilities.
In Kirby Star Allies, the gameplay possibilities are expanded even further with the ability to imbue allies
with elemental abilities.
Collecting power spheres, players charge
their elemental abilities and master the awesome power of nature in Storm.
This process allows you to move certain Monsties abilities, classified as «Genes» to a Monstie of your choice, affecting their stats and
elemental abilities.
Some people want to argue that it's not as realistic as the female armor and to them I say «Just what exactly is realistic about fighting giant dragons that have
elemental abilities with swords that are bigger than your entire body?»
A bit of depth is added via
the elemental abilities which can be charged up for some pretty cool effects like lighting storms and earthquakes, and while the graphic and sound never do them justice it's hard not to smile while controlling a raging torrent of electricity across the field.
His elemental abilities that would only strike once instead can strike ten times across all enemies in battle, incredibly handy if they all share a common elemental weakness.
Skilled use of
your elemental abilities; limiting yourself to one, two, or three elements; even not using any elements at all, will reward you with medals.