Controls
Techniques and controls are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Techniques" instead a noun "Controls".
Techniques
Controls and techniques are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Controls" instead a noun "Techniques".
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Magic by Any Other Name: MS Saga calls them "techniques" instead of "spells", but they're still magic, complete with a pool of "Technique Points" instead of MP and a stat ("Mind") that controls how powerful a character's techniques are.
Source: Video Game / MS Saga: A New Dawn -
The regular controls are notably an aversion, being much simpler than most fighting games (pretty much everything comes down to at most a direction and one of two buttons), but played straight in the more advanced techniques (like waveshining and doubleshining).
Source: Some Dexterity Required -
One of the main reasons why each player controls a troupe of several characters is so that they can still go out and have adventures while their Magus is locked in the lab for months at a time, researching new rites or secrets of Forms and Techniques.
Source: Sufficiently Analyzed Magic
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