Patterns Expedition 33 exemplifies

Pattern	How Expedition 33 uses it
reactive-turn-based	The lemma. Menu-driven turn selection with real-time execution on both sides: timed hits on offense, dodge/parry/jump/counter on defense. The enemy's turn is the player's most engaged moment.
timed-hits	Paper Mario / Lost Odyssey lineage: every attack and skill carries mid-animation button prompts for bonus damage, with an accessibility toggle that auto-resolves offense only.
enemy-intent-telegraph	The stress test of the pattern. Attack type is always honest (parryable / jumpable / Gradient-flagged) but attack timing is deliberately theatrical and deceptive. Telegraph honesty becomes a two-axis dial, and the game maxes one axis while weaponizing the other.
loadout-as-budget	Lumina Points: a per-character numeric budget (roughly = level, extendable via consumables) spent on passives costing 1 to 40 points each. No slot cap, only the budget.
opportunity-cost-loadout	Three Picto slots per character with single-copy equipping across the party; six equipped skills from a much larger tree; weapon scaling letters welding weapon choice to attribute spending.
equip-to-learn	Win 4 battles with a Picto equipped and its passive is learned party-wide as a Lumina. The inventory is a curriculum; best-in-slot is always "whatever you haven't mastered yet." FF9's ability learning, modernized.
per-character-subsystem	Six characters, six private resource loops (Overcharge gauge, elemental Stains, fencing stances, Foretell cards, Perfection ranks, Bestial Wheel) over one shared combat chassis.
shared-party-gauge	The Gradient bar: one party-wide resource paying for both ultimates and the mandatory counters to unparryable attacks. Offense and insurance compete for the same pips.
bonfire-rest-point	Expedition flags: checkpoint, respec, level-up, and consumable refill in one placed object; tints refill at every flag so hoarding is pointless. Fiction inverted: every flag was planted by a previous, dead expedition.