This is effectively the top of your "draw pile."īy standing on top of an orb and pressing X, Y, B, or A, you replace the skill currently mapped to that button with whatever skill is contained in the orb. Three other randomly selected skills from your arsenal also appear as glowing orbs at your starting spot.
You begin a round with four skills that are randomly selected from your "arsenal" (Phantom Dust's term for "deck"), which may include up to 30 skills in total. Instead of a traditional complement of weapons, however, you're armed with "skills." You can carry four skills at a time, each one mapped to one of the X, Y, B, and A buttons. Movement controls are typical for a third-person action game (left stick moves, right stick adjusts the view), and the duels take place in real time across various shooter-esque 3D environments. The duels are the meat of the game, where the object is to reduce your opponents' life points to zero before they do the same to you. This guy's not kidding-expect to wade through a lot of babbling.Įssentially, gameplay is a cross between the deck-building and card-collecting elements of Magic: The Gathering and the controls, speed, and environmental tactics of a shooter. Designed by Panzer Dragoon Saga creator Yukio Futatsugi, Phantom Dust is a unique and terrifically successful blend of strategy, tactics, and fast action. Though Microsoft must have had its reasons for dropping it, it's hard to imagine what those reasons could have been. First up, however, is Phantom Dust, an action/strategy hybrid developed by Microsoft Game Studios in Japan, published by Microsoft in Asia, and then abandoned by Microsoft for North American release. One eccentric castoff, Double Fine's Psychonauts, arrives in a few weeks. Majesco is gaining a reputation for publishing offbeat titles that have been unceremoniously dumped by Microsoft.
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