There are basic skills you begin the game with, and then there are upgrades to your skills that you learn at certain points along the way. For example, at the beginning you can only do a basic jump up into the air. Later, though, you can learn a double-jump, which lets you get even higher up and get over obstacles.

Each controller for each system is slightly different, but it should be faily obvious after pushing a few buttons which button does which action. These are for the XBox.

A - jump
B - attack (Sphinx only)
X - action
Y/R trig/L Trig - assigned item or monster
Right thumb - rotate camera
Left thumb - control character
Dir pad - display items menu
Back - inventory
Start - pause
black - focus on boss
white - center camera

Advanced Commands:
Double jump - hit A twice (must learn
B B - chain attack
B hold - backhand sword slach
A + B - jump and attack

Swimmings:
A - jump (from surface)
A - swim (underwater)
B - dive (from surface)
B - attack (underwater, when you learn how)
X + left thumb - fast swim (surface)
X - fast swim (underwater, when you learn how)

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