History VideoGame / PhantomDust

''Phantom Dust'' is a highly original [[ActionRPG action-RPG]] brought into the world by [[Creator/MicrosoftStudios Microsoft Game Studios]] for the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}}, directed by ''VideoGame/PanzerDragoon'' series creator Yukio Futatsugi. The core gameplay consists of building "[[CollectibleCardGame arsenals]]," each composed of thirty different skills of your choice. There are 320 such skills to choose from, plus the mandatory aura capsules you need to insert in your arsenal to use these skills. Like TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering, most skills require a specific amount of aura to use. Once the skill is used, your aura level goes down and starts to recharge. This is to prevent mad spamming of powerful skills. [[JustifiedTutorial 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. 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.

At E3 2014, it was suddenly announced that the game would be given a multiplayer-only {{reboot}} for the UsefulNotes/XboxOne by Darkside Game Studios, but was cancelled in 2015 due to budget constraints, which also resulted in Darkside closing down. Microsoft still planned to release the game, but after years of DevelopmentHell, it was revealed at E3 2016 that a [[UpdatedRerelease port of the game]] was in the works, and was released in May 2017 for UsefulNotes/XboxOne and Windows 10 as a free-to-play title, with [=XBox=] Play Anywhere support.

[[caption-width-right:275:This game was forged in a fire fueled by [[ContemplateOurNavels philosophy books]], [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs illicit]] [[MindScrew substances]], [[NintendoHard the tears of frustrated players]], and leftover [[MagicTheGathering Magic]] cards.]]

''Phantom Dust'' is a highly original [[ActionRPG action-RPG]] brought into the world by [[Creator/MicrosoftStudios Microsoft Game Studios]] for the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}}, directed by ''VideoGame/PanzerDragoon'' series creator Yukio Futatsugi. The core gameplay consists of building "[[CollectibleCardGame arsenals]]," each composed of thirty different skills of your choice. There are 320 such skills to choose from, plus the mandatory aura capsules you need to insert in your arsenal to use these skills. Like [[MagicTheGathering Magic: The Gathering]], most skills require a specific amount of aura to use. Once the skill is used, your aura level goes down and starts to recharge. This is to prevent mad spamming of powerful skills. [[JustifiedTutorial 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. 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.

* Alleged Lookalikes: The enemy referred to as "redhead" is mistaken for Freia, despite the former's monstrous appearance and the troublesome little detail that Freia's hair is platinum-colored.

* Alleged Lookalike: The enemy referred to as "redhead" is mistaken for Freia, despite the former's monstrous appearance and the troublesome little detail that Freia's hair is platinum-colored.

''Phantom Dust'' is a highly original [[ActionRPG action-RPG]] brought into the world by [[MicrosoftStudios Microsoft Game Studios]] for the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}}, directed by ''VideoGame/PanzerDragoon'' series creator Yukio Futatsugi. The core gameplay consists of building "[[CollectibleCardGame arsenals]]," each composed of thirty different skills of your choice. There are 320 such skills to choose from, plus the mandatory aura capsules you need to insert in your arsenal to use these skills. Like [[MagicTheGathering Magic: The Gathering]], most skills require a specific amount of aura to use. Once the skill is used, your aura level goes down and starts to recharge. This is to prevent mad spamming of powerful skills. [[JustifiedTutorial 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. 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.

->''"Nobody remembers anything. Not when the [[CrapsackWorld world]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt changed]]...nor why."''

At E3 2014, it was suddenly announced that the game would be given a multiplayer-only {{reboot}} for the UsefulNotes/XboxOne by Darkside Game Studios, but was cancelled in 2015 due to budget constraints, which also resulted in Darkside closing down. Microsoft still planned to release the game, but after years of DevelopmentHell, it was revealed in April 2017 that a [[UpdatedRerelease port of the game]] was in the works, and was released the following month for UsefulNotes/XboxOne and Windows 10 as a free-to-play title, with [=XBox=] Play Anywhere support.

** Arsenal building is introduced earlier in the single player campaign

** Skills can also be obtained by starting up the game and logging in, with a special skill if the player logs in four times within a weekly time frame. Said skills can also be purchased as DLC.

Phantom Dust is a highly original [[ActionRPG action-RPG]] brought into the world by [[MicrosoftStudios Microsoft Game Studios]] for the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}}, directed by ''VideoGame/PanzerDragoon'' series creator Yukio Futatsugi. The core gameplay consists of building "[[CollectibleCardGame arsenals]]," each composed of thirty different skills of your choice. There are 320 such skills to choose from, plus the mandatory aura capsules you need to insert in your arsenal to use these skills. Like [[MagicTheGathering Magic: The Gathering]], most skills require a specific amount of aura to use. Once the skill is used, your aura level goes down and starts to recharge. This is to prevent mad spamming of powerful skills. [[JustifiedTutorial 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. 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.

** All skills in multiplayer are available to purchase from the beginning, when originally they were tied to progress in the main campaign.

At E3 2014, it was suddenly announced that the game would be given a multiplayer-only {{reboot}} for the UsefulNotes/XboxOne by Darkside Game Studios, but was cancelled in 2015 due to budget constraints, which also resulted in Darkside closing down. Microsoft still planned to release the game, but after years of DevelopmentHell, it was [[https://twitter.com/XboxP3/status/847917839327481856/photo/1 revealed in April 2017]] that a port of the game was in the works and is slated to be released in the same year for UsefulNotes/XboxOne and Windows 10.

* PlayingWithFire: The nature skill set contains a few fire-based techiques.

* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: Halfway through the game the Visions learn that [[spoiler: they and ''all remaining life on Earth'' is nothing more than copies created by the titular dusts and the final living human's memory of past civilizations.]] This discovery quite literally [[spoiler: causes the Vision leaders who witnessed the memory box to cease to exist. The player was spared because it his form had MUCH more detail put into it making him more resistant to the truth.]]

Phantom Dust is a highly original [[ActionRPG action-RPG]] brought into the world by [[MicrosoftStudios Microsoft Game Studios]] for the {{Xbox}}, directed by ''VideoGame/PanzerDragoon'' series creator Yukio Futatsugi. The core gameplay consists of building "[[CollectibleCardGame arsenals]]," each composed of thirty different skills of your choice. There are 320 such skills to choose from, plus the mandatory aura capsules you need to insert in your arsenal to use these skills. Like [[MagicTheGathering Magic: The Gathering]], most skills require a specific amount of aura to use. Once the skill is used, your aura level goes down and starts to recharge. This is to prevent mad spamming of powerful skills. [[JustifiedTutorial 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. 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.

At E3 2014, it was suddenly announced that the game would be given a multiplayer-only {{reboot}} for the XboxOne by Darkside Game Studios, but was cancelled in 2015 due to budget constraints, which also resulted in Darkside closing down. Microsoft still planned to release the game, but after years of DevelopmentHell, it was [[https://twitter.com/XboxP3/status/847917839327481856/photo/1 revealed in April 2017]] that a port of the game was in the works and is slated to be released in the same year for XboxOne and Windows 10.

At E3 2014, it was announced that there will be a {{Reboot}} for the XboxOne, developed by Double Helix Games.

Phantom Dust is a highly original [[ActionRPG action-RPG]] brought into the world by [[MicrosoftStudios Microsoft Game Studios]] for the {{Xbox}}. The core gameplay consists of building "[[CollectibleCardGame arsenals]]," each composed of thirty different skills of your choice. There are 320 such skills to choose from, plus the mandatory aura capsules you need to insert in your arsenal to use these skills. Like [[MagicTheGathering Magic: The Gathering]], most skills require a specific amount of aura to use. Once the skill is used, your aura level goes down and starts to recharge. This is to prevent mad spamming of powerful skills. [[JustifiedTutorial 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. 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.

* CastFromHitPoints: Several Faith spells require you to lose health in order to cast powerful spells.
* DeflectorShields: Many of the defense techniques.

* MercyInvincibility: For both you and enemies after getting knocked down. Once you get up you'll spend a couple seconds flashing a bright color before you are vulnerable once again.

At E3 2014, it was announced that there will be a {{Reebot}} for the XboxOne, developed by Double Helix Games.

Phantom Dust is a highly original [[ActionRPG action-RPG]] brought into the world by [[MicrosoftStudios Microsoft Game Studios]] for the {{Xbox}}. Since it's an Xbox RPG-like game that wasn't created by [[BioWare Bio Ware]], [[SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove it will never see a sequel]]. The core gameplay consists of building "[[CollectibleCardGame arsenals]]," each composed of thirty different skills of your choice. There are 320 such skills to choose from, plus the mandatory aura capsules you need to insert in your arsenal to use these skills. Like [[MagicTheGathering Magic: The Gathering]], most skills require a specific amount of aura to use. Once the skill is used, your aura level goes down and starts to recharge. This is to prevent mad spamming of powerful skills. [[JustifiedTutorial 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. 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.

Phantom Dust is a highly original [[ActionRPG action-RPG]] brought into the world by [[MicrosoftStudios Microsoft Game Studios]] for the {{Xbox}}. Since it's an Xbox RPG-like game that wasn't created by [[BioWare Bio Ware]], [[NeedsMoreLove it will never see a sequel]]. The core gameplay consists of building "[[CollectibleCardGame arsenals]]," each composed of thirty different skills of your choice. There are 320 such skills to choose from, plus the mandatory aura capsules you need to insert in your arsenal to use these skills. Like [[MagicTheGathering Magic: The Gathering]], most skills require a specific amount of aura to use. Once the skill is used, your aura level goes down and starts to recharge. This is to prevent mad spamming of powerful skills. [[JustifiedTutorial 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. 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.

* HospitalHottie: Mikkan runs what is often referred to as the clinic of the Visions. Based on the extremely filthy and downright dangerous accomodations and the fact that she neither does nor can know anything about medicine, one can assume she got the job just because she looked good in the outfit.

* LaserBlade: The long-range focused optical school has laser blades as one of their only means of close-range offense. Psycho has psycho blades, swords evidentally made from psychokinetic energy, and the faith school has abilities like muramasa, blades made from God knows what.