August 2021 Playthrough - Phantom Dust

[singlebanana]

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Phantom Dust is a third-person CCG action game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

The game can be played in its original form on the OG XBOX and a remaster can be downloaded for FREE on XBOX ONE and Windows 10:

https://www.microsoft.com...tivetab=pivot:overviewtab

The gameplay is unique, and though the first set of missions single player campaign makes up a pretty robust tutorial, it never hurts to dive into some external help.

https://phantomdusted.com/



CHECKPOINTS
Chapter 1-2
Chapter 3-4
Chapter 5-6
Chapter 7

PARTICIPANTS
grayghost81
singlebanana
mr_stubbes
disposed hero
douglie 007

[Mr_Stubbes]

I honestly have no idea.

Shot in the dark but Spirit of the North?

[Disposed Hero]

My guess would be Dust: An Elysian Tail

[singlebanana]

I like these guesses, but both are incorrect.

[douglie007]

The indie game Dustwind?

[Mr_Stubbes]

Is there a game about Kansas I’m unaware of?? 

[Addicted]

You have finally decided to face your fears and play Syberia 2?

Enjoy Phantom Dust

[Mr_Stubbes]

I’ve never heard of Phantom Dust but I’m in.

[Addicted]

Are you sure you don't want to play Syberia? They are free on GOG.

https://www.gog.com/game/...2ca57dc24a53ffb3ef5303122

[Disposed Hero]

Oof, feel like I'm spreading myself pretty thin here, but I'm gonna try to get in on this one too. This is a game I've always been interested in, and I feel like if I don't play it now with you guys I probably never will.

[douglie007]

I just installed it. I'll try to play this game

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[Disposed Hero]

I've put some time into this one and am at the beginning of Chapter 2. I wasn't sure what to think about it at first, but it's grown on me and I'm really enjoying it now. The structure kind of reminds me of something like FF7 Crisis Core where the gameplay is mostly divided up into fairly short copy/paste missions, so we'll see if it ends up getting old or not. I do like that the short mission-based structure lends itself to a pick-up-and-play format, so it's pretty easy to pick it up for a few minutes and knock out a couple of missions here and there. Also the main character looks like if someone hit 'random' on a character creation screen and said "Meh, good enough."

The gameplay itself is kind of cool and interesting. There's some strategy involved, and picking up the pseudo-random abilities reminds me of something like Twisted Metal or Mario Kart. The game has been pretty easy so far, but they keep introducing new elements to the gameplay so I'm curious to see how that affects things. It's been a very interesting game so far!

[GrayGhost81]

Steven, I laughed at the random character creator comment and I love the Mario Kart comparison.

I just finished chapter two. I am enjoying the game to a certain extent but sometimes get frustrated by the fact that it seems the enemies will hit you with 100% accuracy, but they can rather easily avoid your shots constantly.

I LOVE that you can skip missions after failing them a few times. Like, yep I get the idea, NEXT.

[Mr_Stubbes]

I'll probably start this tonight. From what I've seen about the game I'm not sure how much I'll enjoy it, but from what y'all are saying it sounds like you can get through it fairly easy.

[Mr_Stubbes]

So I finally started playing and made it about halfway through chapter 2. As of right I'm not sure how I feel about this game. The story seems kinda interesting and I’ll be interesting to see where the game takes it. The missions and combat are OK too. The missions are short so as Disposed Hero mentioned it’s very easy to pick up and play a few missions if you don’t have a ton of time. One thing that kinda bugged me at first was the map. Besides highlighting the room you’re in it doesn’t do much without a directional marker so you basically have no idea where you are on the map. Luckily the underground is fairly small so it’s easy to learn where certain areas are. I also want to say that laser attack is damn near useless. I’ve probably casted 50 times and maybe have had 3-4 hits.

What it’s like to use the laser attack: https://youtu.be/5EXC_rjs7tg

Edit: just started Chapter 3 and I have one more thing to add, I really hate that there is friendly fire in this. Not only can you hurt and kill your partner, but they can do the same to you. Which is frustrating when they just keep running into the fray as you send bombs at your enemies, or when you try to remove abilities and get caught in the crossfire.