Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
EDIT: This is what your image made me think of... this enemy attack from FF8. Is that accurate?

Also, I imagined Anathema, the Toxikon follow up, would be Kerachole's animation, but purple with the nouliths firing lasers that bounce around the inside of the bubble to communicate the damage being dealt, and Paroxysm would reuse Toxikon I's animation, and regular Toxikon would just be Toxikon II's animation. Polydipsia (which means excessive thirst as a references to getting more healing out of Kardia) would be a water laser that would look something like this animation from an old Yugioh game. Somnia would have the nouliths surround the main target and emit some kind of vibration attack similar to Heaven's Cataract from FFX-2. Bia I imagine would be an augmented take on the current Dyskrasia AoE on a much larger scale where lasers rain down into those rainbow puddles.
That's pretty much along the lines of what I was after, yeh. I had watched this video last night, so this timestamped part is probably why I have the thought. As for the 'vibration' animation, I think you're onto something, have the four nouliths embed themselves into the enemy one at a time and then once all four are in position, they all do the pulse effect. Really sell the idea that, rather than a long range laser attack, they get in close because vibration doesn't travel so well through air. Thinking of like, the effect of if you play one single strong bass note through a speaker with water or something on it, the shockwave you see caused by that pulsing out from the noulith/speaker, despite the source of the force not actually moving all that much, you know? Can't find a video to illustrate it's all just 'healing frequencies' meditation stuff