The game runs in real time, with visible enemies and no separate battle screens.

Ashley can also jump and grab ledges of higher platforms during exploration. Dungeons contain many optional rooms and environmental puzzles that mostly involve pushing, destroying, and re-arranging different types of crates to access higher areas. The game focuses on exploration of large, complex dungeon-like areas and combat there are no 'friendly' areas, NPC interaction, or monetary system. The entire game (including the numerous cutscenes that advance the plot) is rendered in 3D. Vagrant Story is a role-playing game with several distinguishing characteristics. However Ashley is not the only person interested in the city, and other factions of the government, including parliament assigned Knights of the Crimson Blade and other VKP agents are pursuing their own agenda.

The events at the manor have sent Ashley on a quest to get to the bottom of events, and travel into the catacombs that lead to the destroyed, yet magical city of Leá Monde. A cult of religious fanatics known as Müllenkamp and their leader Sydney Losstarot have seized the manor of Duke Bardorba of Valendia Kingdom. Ashley Riot is a Riskbreaker, an elite agent for the Valendia Knights of Peace (VKP) who is investigating some strange occurrences. Not an American user? DescriptionValendia is a land that had undergone civil war, the end of which had birthed the parliament and several organizations to control the balance of power.

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