Phix: The Adventurenote is a 3D Platform Game developed Affect Co. Ltd, released for the PlayStation on May 18, 2000 in Japan and July 15, 2003 in North America by Agetec as among the last games for the system.
Phix: The Adventure contains examples of:
- Ambiguous Ending: How does Phix get off that floating island?
- Battle in the Rain: The final boss fight with Senor Shogun takes place outside of Savart Castle during a rainstorm with flashes of lightning that light up the sky.
- Brutal Bonus Level: The Training Mode+ levels, unlocked after the player fully completes the main game's Pixel Hunt; the three extra stages are the hardest in the entire game, requiring careful usage of the magnetic mechanics to pass.
- Cartoon Creature: It's not clear what kind of animal Phix is supposed to be, as he lacks specific animalistic attributes, and the yellow antennae coming out of his head don't tell much.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Objects with a north polarity are red, while objects with a south polarity are blue.
- Drop the Washtub: Phix has to hit a tree while Calimonstro is in a specific spot in order to make a water basin fall down and land on it to deal heavy damage.
- Eternal Engine: Techno City Lauterbur is the fourth world, and features all sorts of mechanical contraptions that Phix must figure out how to use in order to progress.
- Everything's Better with Samurai: The final boss is Senor Shogun, a giant samurai who fights Phix using his giant sword.
- Green Hill Zone: The first world is Faraday Field, a grassy forest with pools of water.
- Giant Squid: The first boss is Calimonstro, a giant cephalopod with insect-like legs it uses to walk on land, and a large pair of claws it uses to attack.
- Guide Dang It!: The only hint the game gives you to unlocking Training Mode+ is a single vauge statement in the manual saying "Special Hint: If you clear one condition during the game, it will..."; what it means is collecting all 48 pixel-sized bouncing dots around the stages, which would be nigh-impossible to see on a CRT.
- Humongous Mecha: Rollin' Rocco is a giant robot that towers over Phix and guards Techno City Lauterbur. He's fitted with a missile launcher, and can compress into a ball and roll around the arena.
- Lethal Lava Land: World 3 is Neel Volcano, where Phix must avoid falling into rivers of lava, as well as heat geysers and other fiery hazards.
- MacGuffin: The Magnia Stone falls from its pedestal on a floating island and ends up stuck inside Phix's body, plunging Magnetica into chaos. His primary goal is to deliver it to the cleric in order to restore order.
- Magnetism Manipulation: The game's primary mechanic. Phix is constantly emitting either a north or south magnetic polarity that affects various objects in the world around him, and he needs to strategically switch between the two polarities in order to overcome obstacles and interact with items. Typically, objects with the opposite polarity will be attracted to Phix, while those with the same polarity will be repelled.
- Medusa: Ferri Ruins is guarded by Gorgonia, a giant gorgon who sends snakes after Phix during her boss fight.
- Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: While each of the bosses attack Phix at the end of each world, it's just because they went crazy after the Magnia Stone disappeared, as when defeated, they return to normal and thank Phix for saving them.
- Pixel Hunt: Taken to the literal extreme if the player wants to unlock Training Mode+, needing to find four bouncing white pixel-sized collectables in each of the stages (excluding any Boss-Only Level).
- Puzzle Boss: Each of the game's bosses requires you to shoot at certain objects in the environment at the right time in order to deal damage to the boss. Phix can shoot polarity particles at some of the bosses directly, but it does negligible damage.
- Seppuku: Almost attempted by the final boss, until Phix stops them.
- Spikes of Doom: The inside of Savart Castle has a room full of pits with spikes that rapidly move up and down at the bottom. Falling in will cost Phix a life, naturally.
- Suddenly Voiced: Phix is a Silent Protagonist until the ending cutscene, where he asks the cleric to remove the Magnia Stone from his body.
- Super Drowning Skills: Phix loses a life if he falls into pits of water.
- Temple of Doom: World 2 is Ferri Ruins, a series of ancient tombs fitted with all kinds of traps, including pits of quicksand and difficult puzzles.
- Wutai: The final world is Savart Castle, where Phix jumps across the roofs of Japanese-inspired castles before eventually making his way inside. The boss of the world is a samurai.
