Game mechanics
Debates
Debates are the "battle" stages in Tears of Themis. In debates, there will be an enemy who will have various arguments with HP. The player attacks the enemy by selecting their cards to use against enemy's arguments and lower the enemy's HP. Each card selection is a turn, and the player has a limited amount of turns to complete the stage. Additionally, every time a player selects a card to use, the enemy will attack back and lower the player's HP.
If a player runs out of cards, they can refresh the deck at the cost of 1 turn.
Once all arguments have been defeated, the player wins stage. Players can be defeated though if they:
- Run out of turns
- The player's HP reaches 0
Attributes
Arguments and cards will have different attributes: Intuition, Logic, Empathy, or Null (no typing). The attribute of the card you select will affect how much damage your attack does. Strong attacks will deal 2.0x damage while weak attacks will do 0.5x damage. Attacks that are neutral or against Null will do 1.0x damage.
| Type | Strong Against | Weak Against |
|---|---|---|
 Logic
|
 Empathy
|
 Intuition
|
| Empathy
|
Intuition
|
Logic
|
| Intuition
|
Logic
|
Empathy
|
One easy way to remember typings are by color and converting them into elements used in other games. For example, Logic is blue and correlates to Water, which beats Empathy's red (Fire), but weak against Intuition's green (Grass).
Skills
- See also: Skills
Cards will also have skills. Some cards have skills which passively take effect, and others have skills which take effect when a player selects them.
Cards will affect Influence (Attack stat) or Defense such as boosting your own Influence/Defense stats or lowering the enemy's Influence/Defense stats to boost damage/lower damage you take.
Some cards will even have skills that passively boost the base stats of cards, such as Formidable cards that boost Influence when equipped from the Support deck.
