Yesterday vs. Tomorrow: Tales From Yonder

Yesterday vs. Tomorrow: 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, which is powerful at the cost of some health and the POWER Bar dropping.

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.