Nora Kisaragi

The demo for this game is now on xbox live marketplace, if you have a JP live account, that is.

OKAY Everyone. Apparantly the first legit pro-skillz match made its way onto the Phantom Breaker website this moment, in which the developers battled some team. http://5pb.jp/games/phantombreaker/movie/index.html Unfortunately, i can't get the movie to load =<, if someone can get that pro shiz on youtube i'd be happy

I've noticed it only says the thing about my post needing to be approved if my post contains a link of some kind, or perhaps it's tied to my rank or something. EDIT: And thanks a bunch!

I have two posts pending, one has been pending since friday, the other a little over 24 hours Just wondering with the usual time to wait is. Thanks!

I searched on YouTube by it's japanese title, ファントムブレイカー , and found this little video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqPQBH7gCmU It's not much, but the gameplay seems a lot more fast/smooth than it did in the previous video. We won't know for sure until we see a video of the game's final build, however.

Agreed on that. It would be nice to have some sort of demo or some more videos, with the game a little less than 2 months away from release (There are only 3 gameplay videos of this game on youtube, for the 3rd video you have to search the game using it's Japanese title, which you can just copy+paste from the promo vid). This may not be a high profile fighting game, but it's really lame how little coverage we're getting, so it's pretty hard to judge how good this will be based on what little we have. In the videos we do have, the players don't seem to know much about what they're doing as they seemed to just be normal people. We'll have to wait and see, I suppose. I wouldn't mind 360 exclusivity if the 360 wasn't region locked. I much perfer 360 for fighting games, maybe not for Street Fighter but the controller is a lot more suitable for BlazBlue I found. Again, even if this game isn't that successful, part of me at least wants to try it for myself.

Wow. This game is a 360 exclusive? I'd import this if it was on ps3, even though I perfer 360 controls for fighters, for the simple fact that if I wanted to play it, i'd have to import a 360. =/ Then again. You guys -are- forgetting an important detail. It is not uncommon for a fighter to suck on the first edition. Melty Blood 1 and Arcana Heart 1 were both lacking, it wasn't until alter editions it attracted a more appealing following. I, for one, welcome the opportunity to support a fighting franchise since its first edition---even if that first edition is lacking, for 2 reasons. 1.) The obvious: Supporting the developers. You pay them, they make better games, you get happy. 2.) The also obvious: If you play a fighting game since it's first edition---you'll start on the same ground as anybody else. If you joined, say, Arcana Heart 3 without playing 1/2, you'll have a much harder time and there'll be a huge skill gap you need to cross before you start getting good. Now, back to Phantom Breaker. The game is 8k yen, which translates to roughly 80$ US if you ignore foreign exchange rates (included it's closer to 90$). I checked PlayAsia and the limited edition is 120$. Now, that's a big asking price, but i'm pretty sure it has to do with Japan's economy at the moment, they're suffering due to the high value of the yen at the moment. With that being said, the price isn't exactly their fault. A problem I do have is with the stages. There seems to be a lack of NPCs in the background. I'm probably being spoiled by BlazBlue, but it's nice to be fighting while there's Hype Dog among others in the background doing whatever it is they're doing. With Phantom Breaker, the background is...just there. Now, there's maybe a month or two before release, and maybe that'll change. I just hope it does. P.S: There are some new screenshots of the game on Play-Asia, game looks a lot more polished and there are cars driving around in the background in the highway stage.