This is the Game Over screen: since it's an old staple of videogames, every new game tries to put in something original, and for Star Ocean 2 they chose to put the 'A' upside-down. In mathematics an upside-down 'A' (sorry, can't find the Unicode character) is the universal quantifier, and it could be said it means 'any and everything'. Now please explain to me the witty pun here, cause I don't get it.This is what happens when you're careless, but also when the story events of the game subtly switch one of your characters out of your party and then back in, and you don't pay enough attention. Remember when Rena chased after Dias? She got out of my party that way, and apparently another party member took her place in the main 4-character formation, so that once I got her back, she was put outside of the active party. Now guess what happens when a distracted player starts a 'boss fight' without knowing that the only healer character he has has been shifter out of the fighting party... I should probably explain that, no matter how many characters you have, if the four active members die in a battle, it's over for you.
Rena finally tells Claude about Dias's story: his family was exterminated by bandits! Even her little sister Cecille died before his very eyes. It certainly explains a lot about Dias's character, but this event is also the apex and last extent of his character development; except maybe if you play as Rena and try to get romance scenes with him (and that's hard, because he has hardly any Private Action). Just after that, monsters attack!
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