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<p dir="ltr">The story begins when what appears to be a shooting star lands in the mountains. The player who is referred to in second-person, finds a pair of twin babies in the light and decides to become their adoptive parent. By default, the boy is named Dio, and the girl is named Mel. The story skips ahead thirteen years to 4408 by the Aselia calendar. The narration notes that Dio is energetic, Mel is level-headed, and both of them are mysteriously powerful. Dio enters with a strange creature that followed him home from the mountains. He and Mel decide to keep it as a pet and name it "Couleur" based on the sound it makes: "krr".</p><p>Mel and Dio begin their day as normal when they are suddenly visited by a winged woman who introduces herself as Norn and says that the two of them have a doomed destiny. With little else in the way of explanation, she sends them to meet Arche Klein, the only surviving time warrior made famous by the events in <a href="/tales-of-phantasia/3030-255/" data-ref-id="3030-255">Tales of Phantasia</a>.</p><p>The gameplay of Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon is called the Petit Linear Motion Battle System, or Petit LMBS, a turn-based variation on the Linear Motion Battle System used by the rest of the series. As in normal LMBS, the player controls only one character and does so via button combinations instead of a dialogue choice, while party members are computer-controlled.</p>