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Phoenix's self-resurrection mystic arte triggers randomly, like the equipment effect you get for beating him. You just got really unlucky that first time.

The really abusable thing about Velvet's therion form is that she can't die while she's in it, so it's really easy to just power through stuff by tanking a hit to get to 1 hp, using the finisher, then going right back into therion form to keep up the invincibility. As long as you can keep getting souls before you get hit, Velvet won't die ever.

It's really weird that they don't refer to Eizen's sister by name, especially since anyone who played Zestiria knows who she is after the cutscene in Lothringen. My guess is since she's a background character, they didn't want to confuse the player with a name of someone who never actually shows up.

I may be misremembering, but didn't Artorius have a skit or two in the intro? But there's probably been more skit sprites in this game than any other Tales game, with characters like Teresa and Zaveid getting skit sprites in the short time they were with the party, along with all of your allies in some of the skits at Titania.