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Menu Overview

Main Menu

 This is the main menu. Some of these options have sub-menus, which we'll get to soon.

 When you hover over the Status menu, you'll see some basic stats on the upper right. Athle's level, current experience, and what experience you need for the next level. You'll also see your gold on the lower right.

Status Menu

 Units lets you see a quick view of your team's current status. The pilot listed on the left side and their Zoid's HP and EP.

 Characters lets you see a list of your current characters and their stats. Clicking a character will show you their Zoid, and if you keep clicking you'll go through the weapons.

 Weapons lets you see all of your current inventory weapons, their quantity, and their stats (on the left side.)

 Zi Data lets you view all current Zi Data along with the price of manufacturing the Zoid, the base Zoid it requires, and the additional items it requires.

 Zi Data Items shows all of the items in your inventory that are used alongside Zi Data to manufacture a Zoid.

 Encyclopedia contains a list of all the characters and Zoids you've discovered so far. This goes into deeper sub menues, so requires a bit more explanation.

Encyclopedia Sub Menu:

Encyclopedia > Zoids



 When you select a Zoid to view you'll see its army designation, name, length, weight, and speed, as well as a brief description in the bottom box. If you haven't acquired the Zi-Data for it yet you'll see a blacked out silhouette with question marks.

Encyclopedia > Characters

 When you reach the Character menu you'll be able to select character lists from each 'series' such as New Century /ZERO or Zoids Saga. Unlike Zoids, there aren't viewable dummy entries until you unlock them, so I'll come back and add these in later.

 When you select a character you'll see their main icon, their walking animation (which you can toggle the direction of using your arrow keys), their name (or just 'Main Character' in Athle's case), their army and title when applicable, their age, the series they're from, and a brief description of their character.

Items Menu

 This section doesn't require much explanation. It's for your usable items. You can view the quantity, description, and also use them from this menu. Use it to heal your Zoids between battles.

Weapons Menu

 In this menu you'll see a list of your Zoids, with a small icon. A Zoid has 3 Fixed Weapon slots for weapons that can't be removed, like Strike Laser Claws and Electron Bite Fangs, and 3 Additional Weapon Slots (aside from aerial Zoids, which don't get to equip extra weapons.) Clicking on a Zoid in the list will show you its 3 slots. Click a slot to pull up a preview of the Zoid and its weapon. Stats listed on the bottom.

Unit Formation Menu

 This is your Unit Formation menu. It'll show a list of Zoids, with stars by those that are already on the field. Click to select a spot on the field to equip a Zoid. Medium and Large scale Zoids each take up 1 slot, but the bigger a Zoid is past that point, the more slots it takes up on the field. You probably won't use many giant Zoids, so it's more important to focus on weapon ranges. Make sure you aren't putting any Zoids with a 1-1 range weapon in the back or they won't be able to hit enemies.

Config Menu

 The Config Menu is just to change the speed that combat messages play. It's set to 3 by default. 1 is fast, 5 is slow.

Save Menu

 This is where you save the game. It'll bring up a Yes/No menu. Click through to save.

Battle Menu

 Once you enter combat you'll see several messages flash across the bottom of the screen. This is announcing the Zoids you're fighting. Then, you'll see a menu pop up that only appears at the very start of the battle. This is where you can make last second changes before starting the fight.




 Start battle is self explanatory. Unit formation allows you to change your unit's formation last second. Command Creation allows you to organize your commands. You can have 6 equipped at a time, so need to swap them out depending on your combat preferences. Status shows all unit's status, the same as it does in the main menu. Retreat is to retreat from battle. However, if you're fighting enemies that are substantially faster than you, you'll have a harder time successfully retreating.

Turn Menu

 When you click Start Battle, you'll enter the turn menu. This menu pops up at the start of every turn. You can enter battle to select an option to attack, choose to use a Command (one per turn, each command can be used once per battle), or you can try to retreat mid-battle. Retreat isn't a guaranteed success.

Zoid Turn Menu

 At the start of each character's turn you can select what to do. Attack will take you to a screen where you can swap around between different weapon and equipment items to use. Defend will forfeit your Zoid's attack, but also cause it to take less damage. Item allows you to use an item. This is where you'd select healing items, for example.

Leveling Up

 Each pilot has their own preference for how to weight their stats. As you start battling through the Overworld, you'll find that when Athle levels up, you get to choose how his stats are distributed. These are the options.

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