Yesterday vs. Tomorrow: Tales From Yonder

Yesterday vs. Tomorrow: Tales From Yonder  (previously Tales Of Yonder) is a fighting game created for the second weekly Lapis challenge. The theme of the game is focused on the discovery of the past, as well as the thoughts of the future; these topics are blended together in many ways from the fighters to the arenas, as well as telling a tale on exactly how similar they are.

Story Mode
The currently unnamed Story Mode is, besides the fighting itself, the main part of the game. It features a ragtag team of explorers as they trek on a mission to discover lost artifacts for their studies. Little do they know, a mad scientist from the future utilizes a time travel machine to inspect the artifacts for himself. Being a prototype machine, however, it causes a shift in the periods of time, blending different eras together as one.

How To Fight
Characters each have two sets of attacks; light attacks are more for racking damage and setting up comboes, whereas strong attacks are more along finisher moves. Each character also has three different specials that they can use to differentiate themselves, and these specials can range from very powerful attacks to less powerful tactics that have a wide range, and even increasing the status of yourself.

Characters knock others out with the use of a health bar. Each character has a attack stat in the form of a number, this number is added to the base number of an attack to deal damage, but one must also be wary of a foe's defense stat as well. Successful hits build up a POWER Bar, and once it's full, characters will launch a move known as a Devastation. Each character has 3 different Devastations that can be triggered. When a Devastation is used the POWER Bar drops.

When a fighter's health begins to get low, they will enter Conservative Mode. This mode heavily weakens characters but if they can protect themselves long enough they will begin to recover. If a character's health bar goes out, they enter a state of Crisis. Being in Crisis heavily powers you up, but you will lose a life if you get hit again. If you can stay alive in Crisis long enough, you'll exit out of it.

Playable Characters
There are two groups of characters, the Past Faction and the Future Faction. They are only seperated by factions, and there is no major differences between the 2. Each group has 11 playable characters, with 1 unlockable from each faction unlocked after clearing the Story.

Stages
There is 22 stages, each dedicated to a certain fighter, as well as 4 original stages.