![]() ![]() These Espers attempt to find the ruins and try and put together who they are and what happened to the world.Įventually there are two escape pods that are found and brought down into the underground city. All that remains is a collective unconscious memory of “The Ruins.”Īs well, humanity has a mutated offshoot, a group known as the Espers who have the ability to absorb concentrated amounts of the dust covering the globe and channel it into psychic powers and energy. Those of mankind that survived are complete amnesiacs, knowing neither their name nor history. Monsters and mutant roam the land, while humanity has been forced underground. Phantom Dust takes place in an apocalyptic wasteland. So why don’t we cover each of the ten points now, and see if this may be the game for YOU. So it’s not the game for me, but it may be for you. But then I don’t like CCG style games, which Phantom Dust tries to emulate, I dislike FPS a lot, and I like strategy over mindless violence. Now, like I said, I didn’t like the game very much at all. Lack of confidence in the game’s quality, or smart marketing strategy, hoping word of mouth would spur sales? Why do you think that is? Because Microsoft geared this game to what they thought would appeal to a Japanese gamer first and foremost, and so the thought (this is my hypothesis, so don’t take it as fact) is that Majesco decided it’s better to sell a lot at half price, than a tiny amount at full. But look? For some reason it is a budget title in the states. Not like Halo 2 did over here, but it did decently in Japan. And so Microsoft thought they had the perfect game to appeal to the Japanese finally. It’s a little bit of an action game, a little bit of an FPS (in terms of pvp deathmatches), a little bit of an RPG, and involves a great deal of Xbox Live in order to get the most out of the game. And Microsoft started getting developers to make games that they thought would appeal to gamers over there, as well as gamers over here.Įnter Phantom Dust, a game Microsoft was sure would be super successful. ![]() They got Sega to do Panzer Dragoon for them. It’s more quirky fun games that succeed over gangland games.Īnd Microsoft finally realized a few years into the Xbox’s life that they needed to make some changes. They like games like Gradius and R-Type.ĭid the Japanese want action RPG’s? No, they tend more towards turn based RPG’s like Megaten, Final Fantasy, and Dragon Quest.ĭo the Japanese care about Grand Theft Auto and killing hookers and gore? Not especially. The reasoning behind this is the Xbox is geared towards American gamers, not Japanese ones, and to be honest Microsoft was pretty clueless as to what the Japanese wanted.ĭid the Japanese want Halo? No. Only about 1 million or so systems, if that, have been sold. But in Japan, the Xbox is pretty lukewarm. Both Sony and Nintendo dropped the ball here. Xbox Live has proven to give Microsoft a strong edge over the PS2 and Gamecube in the area of online play. Over in the US, the Xbox is pretty popular. Because you’re actually getting an opinion of someone that has said, “Seen better, played better, beaten better.” Ignore the hype and read on to why this game is mediocre at best.īut before that, why not a little history about how this game came to be. But that’s all the more reason for people to read this review. So yes, zealots of this game are probably going to hate this review simply because god forbid, I don’t agree with them. Obviously yes, I’m letting on I was more than underwhelmed with this game, and when asked what I thought of it before writing this, I used the adjectives “boring, far too easy” and “poorly written” to describe this game to kliqmates and friends. A games I see getting 7’s and 8’s, and I wonder, “How?” Different tastes for different folks, I suppose.Īnd Phantom Dust is one of those games. I’d rather play Shadow Hearts or Digital Devil Saga or Ikaruga or Animal Crossing over those games. Maybe I just function on a completely different wavelength. ![]() To me the stories in those games are poorly written and conceived and the gameplay is far too easy, and overall they are below average games that I will never understand what people enjoy about them. Beyond Good and Evil, the Final Fantasy series, and Advance Guardian Heroes are just some examples. I’ll admit, I tend to find a lot of games that develop a cult following to be shallow, insipid and boring. ![]()
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