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Phantom Breaker: Omnia Switch NSP Free Download Romslab It is, in fact, the latest update to a fighting game that has existed since 2011. But with the original Phantom Breaker and another two updates only ever being available in Japan, Phantom Breaker: Omnia marks the first time the game will be available in the west. And you know what they say: good things come to those who wait. And that’s what our limited time with the game so far suggests. Phantom Breaker: Omnia is actually rather good. It’s fast-paced and flashy, with a varied range of anime-styled fighters all wonderfully animated. The game it’s based on may be over ten years old now, but the visuals still impress to a degree, even if the backgrounds are a little sterile and occasionally dull. ROMSLAB.COM BEST SWITCH GAMES

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What’s impressed us most about Phantom Breaker: Omnia so far is the combat itself. Or rather, how much control you have over it. You see, after choosing your character (there are over 20 available), you then have to choose between one of three styles. And your choice can have a large bearing on how you play. Choose Quick Style, for example, and while you’ll have lower health you’ll move faster and have access to multiple quick combos. Hard Style, on the other hand, gives to access to a unique command and increases your HP, but you’re limited to only one quick combo. And then there’s Omnia Style, new to this release. It strikes a compromise between the two other styles in terms of speed and strength, and allows you to easily perform combos.

But it blocks you out from using some of the game’s more advanced features.

The result is a fighting system that keeps you on your toes. Even if you’re up against a character you’ve fought numerous times before, their choice of style may mean you’re not quite prepared for the onslaught they might unleash. Though even at its most complicated Phantom Breaker: Omnia is still accessible, with special moves being a cinch to pull off thanks to a dedicated button, and more advanced features just asking you to press two buttons at once. That’s not to say that Phantom Breaker: Omnia is easy, however. The breakneck pace of combat means you need to think – and act – fast. And when it comes to fighting against the CPU, while you can adjust the difficulty of arcade mode and versus, story mode throws throws you in at the deep end, requiring you to brush up your skills. Lost Artifacts Soulstone Switch NSP

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We’ll have a full review for Phantom Breaker: Omnia later this month. And if you’re into fighting games you’ll probably want to check it out. What we can say now though, is that it’s surprised us with its generous offering of modes and exhilarating gameplay, and we can’t wait to dig into more of it. Phantom Breaker never left Japan. Even though there were plans to localize the Xbox 360-only fighting game, the plans fell through after a couple of years and several missed release dates. The game received an upgrade for arcades before getting another version for the home market as Phantom Breaker: Extra on the Xbox 360 and PS3. A spin-off of the game, Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds, made it around the world to mildly positive results, but it was a brawler instead of a pure on-on-one fighter.

About Phantom Breaker: Omnia

We are finally seeing the release of the series outside of Japan in fighting game form with Phantom Breaker: Omnia for multiple platforms, including the Nintendo Switch. To be clear, Omnia isn’t a completely new title but more of a tweaked version of Phantom Breaker: Extra. That likely won’t matter to the majority of players, but it is something to note for those who did import the title roughly nine years ago. For everyone else, the game mechanics fall in line with most of the other smaller anime fighters on the market. The game uses four attack buttons, with three designated for light, medium, and heavy attacks and one for special attacks. Unlike other fighting games, the special attacks are similar to Super Smash Bros. in that you hit the special attack button in conjunction with a direction and sometimes another button to deliver your variety of moves. Loop Hero Switch NSP

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While most of the moves can be executed at any time, a few of them are completely reliant on you having filled one or more burst gauge bars. The signature mechanic lies in the three fighting styles that you can select for each fighter. Quick Style gives you faster characters and the ability to double-jump. You can also execute simple button combos and quickly replenish your burst gauge at the expense of a lower health bar. Pick Hard Style, and you lose out on all but one of the simple button combos, but you do gain an exclusive move with Back and Medium Attack. You have more health but lose mobility in the process. Omnia Style is the middle ground of the two extremes and is the replacement.

Gameplay

You gain Quick Style’s one-button combos, but you lose out on some of the other abilities granted by the other styles. On paper, this sounds both simple and deep. The various systems do well in terms of acting as counters to one another, and the fighting is quite fast paced. However, the various systems lose their effectiveness once you discover that it takes far too many hits to knock out your opponent. Even if you choose Hard Style and do nothing but heavy attacks, the opponent’s health meter won’t move by much, while light attacks cause that health meter to only drain by slivers. Go over to Quick or Omnia Styles, and fights tend to go down to the wire because even special moves won’t make a significant dent in the health meter. Long Ago: A Puzzle Tale Switch NSP

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It doesn’t help that the roster isn’t too inspiring. The 20 fighters on the roster consist of plenty of anime stereotypes from idols to maids and schoolgirls, but there was some care taken to keep them modestly dressed for a fight. Even after learning about their backgrounds and seeing the weapons they yield, no one stands out as favorites or even memorable. The exceptions are the guest characters Kurisu from Steins;Gate and Rimi from Chaos;Head, both of whom appeared in Phantom Breaker: Extra. The game modes are expected from an anime fighting game, with a few of them displaying some interesting quirks. There’s a gallery mode, where achieving both major and minor milestones gets you still images of all of the characters, but there’s no easy way to switch to new images when you’re already viewing one up close.

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