Found this going through Steam one day. It’s technically part of a series, though the other game is a pixel art beat’em up. This is an anime fighting game.

I saw some pictures and the guides made finishing the game sound quick and simple, so I just went and did it. I actually enjoyed a decent chunk of it too.

Story-4

An old bearded guy is going around awakening random people’s fighting magical ability to help them fight each other to grant their wishes. In reality this will break the world and do something terrible, but only the miko and the old guy know that. And the miko refuses to actually explain shit to anyone, even the ninja descendent whose family has been helping hers for generations.

So, each story is usually about someone being duped into fighting and eventually either killing other fighters and becoming evil or going to beat up the old man for luring them into this situation. Note the old man isn’t lying about their wishes being granted, it’s just granting them will do something to the world. Oh, and multi-verse stuff and time travel just seem to be happening. Also, nothing gets concluded. This is basically the first entry story wise, or a retelling of the other Phantom Breaker game. There are four storylines that happen further down the storyline but are more clips of info rather than actual proper stories.

Gameplay-7

This is a flashy game. It also felt like a good game to give a fighting game newbie like me as its controls are simple + four of the story modes have objectives that led to me actually learning some game mechanics. A big one is clashing, where moves collide and build special while allowing a new input. It looks cool and feels good even if you have no idea what you are doing.

There’s an active blocking system, passive one, specials, 3 different fighting styles per character, 20~ characters to play, and no combo inputs like down-right-left to fireball. The controls are simple to learn with no hidden button chains. It’s solid. I think it’s a fine game to play for fun or to intro into fighting games. Though what do I know, I’m terrible at them…

One real complaint is that story mode doesn’t let you pick style, so I didn’t know that was a thing for my first 4 hours of play. It also tracks which styles you used to beat each story fight even though you can’t pick unless you are doing the objective/future ones, some of which require specific styles to do the objective. It’s a series of odd deicsions.

Lewdness-4

It’s mostly from merchandise images. A set of phone cards and poster images that were sold with the game are in the gallery and unlock based on play time. The story has 0 lewd images, and the character art gallery is just their standing and victory art, 0 lewd there. Some of the early characters have jiggle, like 4 or so of them, in their special cut-ins and their standing pose. Later characters seem to be made using a different model system and don’t seem to have any jiggle.

I kind of feel like I get tricked? I don’t regret going for the lewds but I was expecting a bit more, at least more jiggle considering that’s one of the only things I remember from the first game in the series was the pixel art jiggle.

Final Thoughts

While I enjoyed the actual fighting, the story is bad. It barely moves and almost every ending is just setting the same status quo. Only 3 storylines actually felt like they did anything but since there’s no true end none of it mattered. The voices were also just bad, English and Japanese.

Art wise I like merchandise cgs in games, but that’s all this had. There’s basically nothing else to talk about it. It’s an okay fighting game with nothing else going for it.

Save for Phantom Breaker: Omnia

Fully gallery, all achievements, all story available. I didn’t 100% two stories because the objectives were annoying and actually finishing them wouldn’t do anything other than write complete two more times in a menu.

Gameplay: 7/10 Eroticness: 4/10 Story: 4/10

Completion:

Play 3 hours to unlock 40%~ of the gallery, then play every character once. Finish all none objective story modes to complete the gallery, finish the objective stories to have full access to the story stuff.

Achievements just add grind a few battle things, do a few specific battle moves, and finish the four single player modes at least once.