The 4th character is a pacifist or oath bound not to harm any living creature. They only appear in combat on special occasions as a gimmick. Like they're an exorcist, so they're only used to banish ghosts and skeletons that are incorporeal or otherwise immortal.
Ion in Tales of the Abyss was with the party for the most part of the game. As the Fon Master he would have strong mystic arts. But it weakens him whenever he uses his Pope powers, and they need him save his strength in order to break seals. However in a new game +, for whatever reason, if you use Luke's special and press Triangle then Ion will appear and do an extension with his own mystic arte for more damage. "Perhaps I can help. " So he's basically an optional summon during certain story portions of the game.
Additionally, the annoying mascot character for this tales game is a fire breathing cheagle. They use him for adventure mechanics to hit switches and open new paths, but he's not used in battle.
Dominic Barnes
gotta love portable switch flickers
Angel Green
The exorcist thing reminds me of fighting skeletons in White Knight Chronicles. They're unique in that they only collapse for a little while but get back up again in a minute or so unless you uses a special skill or holy water on them while they are collapsed to properly banish them. If you have neither, you can use the party chat "Pray" emote while targeting the collapse skeleton, having the same effect.
I kinda wish more online games used chat emotes as a useful game mechanic. Like, to enter a building you have to salute the guards before they let you pass. Or you can "poke" a treasure chest to see if it's a mimick before you try opening it.
Oliver Turner
that sounds dirty and degrading. hah.
Adrian Mitchell
Man E3 was a whole load of nothing at all.
Brody Butler
I disagree with your assessment.
Jordan Kelly
yeah, a lot of it was irrelevant to me. i'm hype for monster hunter world, though. i've also been writing and listening to a lot of big band-y jazz music recently, so i really liked the odyssey trailer music.
Landon Barnes
Why do you need four characters?
One option is to just do away with one and distribute their important bits among the remaining three characters.
However, from what you're saying, it really seems as though you want a party of three and an important npc.
