


Raine joins after the EX Skill menu option is unlocked, but doesn't actually join in the 'can participate in battle' sense until her Exsphere is equipped.At first glance, it appears to be a regular dungeon gameplay trope, but on closer inspection, its probably because the three groups have the same leaders and thus the same access to magitechnology. Another interesting hint comes from the rather futuristic teleporters that can be seen in the Renegade bases, the seal temples, and the Desian bases (and later the Tower of Salvation and Welgaia). It's the first hint that the Medieval Stasis game isn't just a setting trope. The Seal of Fire is said to be made out of polycarbonate, which can only really be made by our level of technology, as it's a type of plastic.So the training styles can still be closely related. This doesn't make the logic completely wrong, however, knowing that Tethe'alla was strongly associated with Cruxis at almost a man-to-man level. Zelos is but Kratos is not Tethe'allan because he comes from before the world was split into 2 by Mithos. Since Cruxis controls everything it's not improbable that they haven't changed how they train knights (in Kratos' case) or nobleman (Zelos in 4000 years. Considering how familiar Zelos was with Kratos and his motivations, as well as Zelos's heavy involvement with Cruxis it's entirely possible that the reason they have nearly identical fighting styles is because Kratos might've trained him at some point.Perhaps that's why he's brooding outside Flanoir?

Additionally, Zelos more or less admits during the Flanoir scene that the snow reminds him of his mother's death. In Flanoir, Lloyd saying either "I trust you" or "I want you to live too, Zelos" - showing Zelos that he does care - is pretty much what keeps Zelos from committing Suicide by Cop. In Zelos's skit, if you pick the positive response, Lloyd observes that Zelos is brooding more than usual, and Zelos seems really surprised by the fact that Lloyd might actually care. That's the exact decision you make in Flanoir to keep him or not. Kratos's skit is one where you must choose whether to talk to him or ignore him. Flanoir is where you make the decision between keeping Zelos and or inviting Kratos back into your party. But the two skits outside Flanoir make so much sense.

The placement of the skits - the ones where you can choose a response which might affect your relationship with the character - seems to be mostly random.For people who didn't get the joke, Cats is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. When you go to the night-time area of Altamira, you can see a stage play being performed by the Katz.This implies that fruit are rare commodities in the declining Sylvarant, so it makes sense that Colette, who grew up in Sylvarant, would prize being able to eat fruit so readily. If someone looks at the inventories of different shops in the game, they will see that no shops in Sylvarant sell fruit. Colette's favorite food is any kind of fruit, to the point that she will put fruit in her cooking any chance she possibly can get, and giving her any food with fruit in it will raise her Relationship Values."Fighting of the Spirit" plays in this game and its sequel Tales of Phantasia whenever you fight a summon spirit. This also happens with one of the battle themes as well. The end sequence music is the same tune used in the end sequence of Tales of Phantasia.On top of that, she tends to have self-confidence issues that might have undermined her performance on the test. Sheena grew up in an isolated village.While this seems at first to be just another gag on Lloyd's stupidity, you eventually realize that all the scores make perfect sense in context: In the test-taking scene at the Palmacosta Academy, we get everyone's scores - Lloyd gets 25, Sheena 190, Colette 210, Presea 240, Regal 290, Zelos 300, Kratos 380, and Raine gets a perfect score.Kratos and Presea, the two playable characters with a leitmotif not in common time, are also the two characters whose aging processes have been changed by Exspheres.Why do so many of Lloyd's (and various other characters') artes have demonic-sounding names? Because demons are the opposite of angels, and the angels are the enemies.And while the typical efficiency-obsessed workaholic may think it would be awesome if they didn't have to eat, sleep, or feel uncomfortably hot or cold, the way Colette's transformation is portrayed negatively is a reminder to all of us to appreciate the little "inconveniences" that make us human. Colette's angel transformation greatly resemble the symptoms of depression.
