
Like the combat engine, the story of Phantom Dust seems simple but hides a lot of depth. Additionally, each skill has an optimal range to be used at. The skills themselves cover a wide range of abilities, from buffs, to various projectiles, to energy blades, to super-powered melee attacks, to erasing other players skills, to abilities that affect everyone's gameplay. At it's simplest, the fights consist of the you (and usually a teammate) locking on and fighting against one to two opponents in various arenas all with their own arsenals.

The basics of combat are relatively simple, but it takes dozens of hours of gameplay practice to discover how each skill can be used and how each skill can best benefit your arsenal as a whole. Once you use one of the three, another random one will appear in its place until you've had access to all thirty of your skills/aura capsules. With the exception of the beginning of the game, you are randomly given four of these skills to each of your four main buttons (A, B, X, Y), plus three more random ones positioned near your spawn point that you can switch out with skills that you can't use at the moment or have been used up. This is to prevent mad spamming of powerful skills. Once the skill is used, your aura level goes down and starts to recharge. Like Magic: The Gathering, most skills require a specific amount of aura to use. There are 320 such skills to choose from, plus the mandatory aura capsules you need to insert in your arsenal to use these skills. The core gameplay consists of building " arsenals," each composed of thirty different skills of your choice. My heart goes out to the 2 men who died in the creation of this game, heroes.Phantom Dust is a 2005 Action RPG brought into the world by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox, directed by Panzer Dragoon series creator Yukio Futatsugi. Tha nk you futatsugi, we all love your brilliance and gift to us all. They sure as fuck don't make 'em like this anymore. My heart can't take it, this game is like. Yet, the memory of his best friend remains despite knowing all of this just to represent his burning friendship. a world created by a man who kept his secret from himself in order to keep his imitation happy. Such an incredible depth, the story, so touching. I would die to live in the world that Futatsugi developed. This game changed the way people played games, this was the MOST underated diamond ever created.


the personality of this game far exceeds that of any other soundtrack made to date.Īnyone who played the game knows that it was a complete stand alone. simply incredible, from its dark complexity to its rich subtleties. has the most mind bending music ever made. Not a single person has written a review?
