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Decent

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: March 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

For its low price the game is quite decent.

- Game plays like a cross between Magic The Gathering and Wing Commander. It's like Wing Commander in that you play as the lead character and conduct lite dialog with members in the game that are hanging out in one of N underground rooms, gradually getting to know them. Some of the characters you meet will eventually join you on missions on the surface world.
- Most of the missions are the same- go out collect magical orbs and kill your enemy.
- After a number of missions you will be faced with some kind of boss after which the story progresses to the next chapter.
- In Chapter 3 you will be introduced to the concept of the Arsenal which allows you to choose the skills you want to bring with you to a battle. Before then you are at the whim of whatever the environment makes available to you.
- You can buy extra skills as well as additional arsenals to fill.
- The arsenals you create during the game can be used in online play.
- Graphics are quite good and the magic powers are well executed in traditional anime style.
- The battle arenas are post-apocolyptic wastelands which, according to the story, you can only stay out for brief periods of time or else you lose your memory. Of course this is a convenient way of limiting the number of arenas are in the game, and so that the game has an excuse to not let you wander the wastelands- which is instinctively what you want to do since it is so nicely depicted.
- Controls are simple to master- you will be fluently wielding magic in no time.
- The missions can get a bit repetitive after a while until you reach each new chapter boss where things get much harder.

Another alternative to online fighting

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First of this game is only 20 bucks, which is a steal considering what it offers. The premise is that of a fighting game were four players can take thier collected skills and go online and battle each other via royal rumble or 2 man teams. For each player you will have 30 slots to save your skills, and each skill requires a certain number of aura points. You start each match with 0 aura points and your aura points take up your skill list. So for instance I have 15 skills saved and 15 aura points saved and that will take up my skills list. This was something that I didn't like, as soon as you start the battle you have to stand next to your aura/skill pool (which only lets out three skills at a time) and hope that you get enough skills and aura to go fight other wise you will have to wait until your aura/skills respawn. This really slows down the game. The cool thing is that you can get skills such as levitate, flying, dashing, warping you name it you can pretty much do it. These skills are not given you have to find them in the scenario mode, which gives you a great incentive to play it, because there are so many skills that are really difficult to find and other online players may have never seen them. The one player mode is a complete game which is rare unlike the sorry Mortal Kombat conquest and Tekken 5 Devil Within yeech! You really have to get lucky with your skill selection, so in this aspect it is like card collection like Yugi O. You can buy the skills in a pact of 5 (sound familiar) and they are randomly issued or you can buy one skill at a time at a higher price. The premise to this game is pretty cool, I just wish when you start the round that you can just go and immediately fight instead of building up then going to fight, but it is minor gripe for a new online fighting game that cost 20 bucks.

*warning spoilers*
Some of my favorite skills:

Skywalk = let's you float in the air 15 feet for 15 seconds, it is like being storm because you can still use certain attack skills while floating like lighting or fire, it is just cool.

reflect mirror = when an opponent tries to hit you with any non piercing attack the attack is reflected back to them and you can fire your own skill right behind it, the perfect defense (well almost unless some one drops rocks on your head, and yes that skill is in the game).

Any erase skill = these skills are dirty because they can erase a skill that is in the opponents inventory, not only will you have to go back to your pool and get more skills but you can receive damage too depending on which erase skill is used, just dirty.

Mind reading = this skill let's you listen to the other teams conversation, now that aint right.

Thor's Hammer = Electrical bolt that goes through walls and buildings, enough said.

Devil Wings = you float in the air and disappear for 15 seconds, and did I mention you can still attack.

There are so many skills that it is kinda difficult to have a favorite one, like I said anything that you can think of is probably a skill, from draining life, confusing a players button configuration, speed up, slow down, immoblizing, ice, fire,lighting, wind, swords, regenerate skills and health, I mean there are just a lot of skills, so go get the game and meet me online.

An addicting game and an even better price.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've put about 25hrs into this game so far, that's how much fun it is. And for twenty bucks you can't beat it!

The game itself takes the age old card game mantra that made games like magic the gathering and pokemon popular and puts a new twist on it.

YOu get 4 "skills" to use at a time that randomly appear out of an arsenal of 30 that you preset to use. THis means the game involves a lot of strategy as you only get new skills when you've binded the ones that pop up to either the a,b,x, or Y button, but once the new skills pop up you may have to get rid of one you have already to use it. Trust me this game is excellent and a lot of fun, and for twenty bucks you can't beat it. Worth the purchase by far.!!!! Excellent game. Also it's sooo much fun on xbox live and the team behind the game is constantly updating the online game to add new skills and new game modes!

A game for thinking gamers. Which is why I suck at it. :-P

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is an amazing game for 20 bucks and should be in any online xbox gamers collection.

The main storyline is weird but not difficult to understand and is a very unique storyline definitely worth seeing. There is also plenty of challenge to be had in the main quest and can some times be a little frustrating if you aren't prepared to really learn about the skills and instead try to power trough with just a generic deck or two.

The thing I really like about the game is the online play. So many games are about reflexes and so called "mad skillz" but phantom dust rewards the strategic player with victory and the online community tends to be a little more subdued and acceptable compared to high adrenaline communities like halo2.

!!Awesome Game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you payed $20 for this game. It is a good investment. I just completed it. About 108 Missions cleared, about 42 Hours of my time. The graficx are great. Also you have to use your noodle for developing a stradegy for beating a wide range of opponents. The last mission at the Ruins was probably the tuffest part of the game. Took me 2 nights to develop a stadegy to overcome the various forms of the the Dememted Feia. Just don't do like I did and use every last skill in your arsenal. Once you run past the last skill of your arsenal, or use them all up. Your life starts to run out until you die. Kinda unfair, but just a reminder.
Well I hope you enjoy this game. I sure did.:)

A must buy game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! very cool!! very addictive!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: September 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is da shiz-nite son! Ima tell anybody who doesnt have this game right now is missing out on a very cool game. The real reason i bought this game is because it reminds me of dbz style fighting. im a fan of dbz. all and all its grreeaat!!!!!!! buy a copy today ill sleep better knowing u have.

It's an ok game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: February 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Dont get me wrong this game has nice grapics,and ok music. But the game is slow and the controls are a pain, most of the game is just not what one would expect. Retro 80's looking people basicly running around and getting lost. Its not an Rpg game like Prince of Persia, Fable, Morrowind, or Baldurs Gate. Which I took it to be by reading the back of the game and the reviews here at Amazon. It is not like Maigc the gathering eather. So Im not sure what it is. I just know that if your an major Rpg gamer you will most likely not like this game.

Decent / Boring

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: July 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm bored with this game. The graphics are good. The music fits the theme - boring. The gameplay is decent, but boring. The story is slow and boring. Buy this game if you like to be bored.

Phantom Dust, the best card game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am definitely not a big fan of trading card games. If before I played the game I read that it was a trading card game I would have been put off. The first time I played I thought it was an action game. It is very fun and always have great fun playing the single-player game and especially playing the multi-player game with friends.

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