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===Characters=== [[File:Project Sylpheed Crew.jpg|thumb|right|alt=Computer generated models of a black man with close-cropped hair, a woman with messy blue and white hair and whose buxom cleavage is generously shown, and a pink-haired girl whose chest is less well-endowed|Reviewers criticized the game's character designs as stereotypical of Japanese animation.]] Reviewers noted that ''Project Sylpheed''{{'}}s character designs were very similar to those in Square Enix's ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' line of games: sporting hair of various colors, generously-endowed females and [[Androgyny|androgynous]] men make up the cast.<ref name=gamespy /> Exhibiting many outbursts of emotions,<ref name=teamxbox>{{cite web | author = Andy Eddy | title = Project Sylpheed Review | work = [[TeamXbox]] | publisher = IGN Entertainment | date = 2007-07-20 | url = http://reviews.teamxbox.com/xbox-360/1353/Project-Sylpheed/p1/ | accessdate = 2007-10-03 }} </ref> the characters are heavily modeled after personalities commonly found in typical [[anime|Japanese animation]] (anime).<ref name=gamespy /><ref name=g4tv>{{cite web | author = David Francis Smith | title = Reviews — Project Sylpheed | work = [[G4tv.com]] | publisher = [[G4 Media]] | date = 2007-08-27 | url = http://www.g4tv.com/xplay/reviews/1585/Project_Sylpheed.html | accessdate = 2007-10-03 }} </ref><ref name=informer>{{cite web | author = Matt Miller | coauthors = Andrew Reiner | title = Review: Project Sylpheed: Arc of Deception | work = [[Game Informer]] | publisher = [[GameStop]] | url = http://gameinformer.com/NR/exeres/C73EEA84-DFA9-467F-BFD8-24230ED871C1.htm | accessdate = 2008-06-02 | archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20071013152406/http://gameinformer.com/NR/exeres/C73EEA84-DFA9-467F-BFD8-24230ED871C1.htm | archivedate = 2007-10-13 }} </ref><ref name=gt>{{cite web | author = Shane Satterfield | title = Project Sylpheed | work = [[GameTrailers]] | publisher = [[MTV Networks]] | date = 2007-07-30 | url = http://www.gametrailers.com/gamereview.php?id=2999 | accessdate = 2010-03-20 }} </ref> Characters are given voice in the [[Cutscene#Animated cutscenes|animated cutscenes]] that exposits the game's story,<ref name=gsrev>{{cite web | author = Jeff Gerstmann | title = Project Sylpheed for Xbox 360 Review | work = [[GameSpot]] | publisher = [[CNET Networks]] | date = 2007-07-23 | url = http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/projectsylph/review.html?sid=6175496 | accessdate = 2007-10-08 }} </ref> and in the missions, they radio the player character with vocal comments and updates.<ref name=cvg>{{cite web | author = Michael Gapper | title = Project Sylpheed | work = [[Xbox World 360]] | publisher = [[Future plc|Future Publishing]] | date = 2007-07-16 | url = http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=168170 | accessdate = 2007-10-03 }} </ref> The player assumes the role of Katana Faraway, a young talented pilot in the Terra Central Armed Forces (TCAF). Faraway possesses a strong sense of loyalty to his friends and affiliation.<ref name=gt /> As the game progresses, he gradually falls in love with Ellen Bernstein, a close friend and fellow pilot.<ref>{{cite web | author = IGN staff | title = Project Sylph Update | work = IGN | publisher = IGN Entertainment | date = 2006-06-28 | url = http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/715/715346p1.html | accessdate = 2007-10-08 }}</ref> Pitted against them are the forces of ADAN. The most prominent among them is Margras Mason, who is modeled after the typical anime antagonist.<ref name=gsrev /> A close friend of Faraway and Bernstein, Mason was evicted from Earth as tensions escalated between TCG and ADAN.<ref>{{cite video game | title = Project Sylpheed | developer = SETA | publisher = Microsoft | date = 2007-06-29 | quote = '''Faraway''': 3 years ago, the Terra Central Government banned from Earth all people from planets where the anti-government movement was popular. }} </ref> During his return to his homeworld (Acheron), he witnesses its devastation by the TCAF.<ref name=magwit /> He joins ADAN to exact vengeance on the TCAF.<ref>{{cite video game | title = Project Sylpheed | developer = SETA | publisher = Microsoft | date = 2007-06-29 | quote = '''Faraway''': Margras, wait! Why have you... why have you joined the ADAN Forces? / '''Mason''': "Losing my friends and family isn't reason enough? }} </ref> Commanding ADAN is Doris Egan, daughter of a prominent anti-government activist who was killed in the attack on Acheron.<ref>{{cite video game | title = Project Sylpheed | developer = SETA | publisher = Microsoft | date = 2007-06-29 | quote = '''Egan''': The death of my father, Daniel Egan, who was once an activist... Is yet another example of this government's repression! It could not have been an accident! Not when he was butchered with millions of others on Acheron! }} </ref> Like Mason, she is also pursuing vengeance, but with an extremist attitude.<ref>{{cite video game | title = Project Sylpheed | developer = SETA | publisher = Microsoft | date = 2007-06-29 | quote = '''Egan''': "Of course I'm serious. When we unleash our fiery destruction upon Earth and everyone on it, we will eradicate the evil that overruns the universe forever!" }} </ref>
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