Phantom Breaker Omnia Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

by Jim Smale · May 20, 2022

Our Phantom Breaker Omnia Review tells the story of a mysterious man, known only as ‘Phantom’ who appeared in Tokyo—the capital city of Japan—and manipulated vulnerable adolescents into fighting each other, bestowing upon them mystical weapons of great strength known as ‘Fu-mension Artifacts.’ In exchange, he promised to grant their wish if they survive.

Phantom Breaker Omnia Review Pros:

Awesome Anime graphics.
6.9GB download size.
Own in-game achievements and they pop up on the screen as you earn them.
English or Japanese voice work.
The soundtrack can be set to original or remix.
Can rebind controls.
Four difficulties – very easy, easy, normal, and hard. You can set the difficulty for each individual mode that supports the CPU.
Input lag slider.
Game reference is a collection of help from game manuals to practice.
Five game modes – Story, single-player, online, vs, and training.
Fighting gameplay.
Phantom Breaker Prologue option.
Style is where each has 3 styles that alter their playstyle, you have hard, quick, and Omnia.
In story mode, you have to choose a character and then do a particular task within the fight in order to advance.
In-game cutscenes with voicework.
Can fast forward cutscenes.
Looks and plays really well.
Combo counter.
Even button mashers can pull off magnificent-looking combos and hold their own.
Profile card is customizable with avatars unlocked and you can show off five of your awards.
Play data is your full stats.
Online leaderboards for each game mode.
The gallery is unlocked images.
Overall completion percentage.
Single-player has four modes – score attack, time attack, endless battle, and arcade.
Online has player and ranked matches. Each mode has room settings for room name, restrictions, region, connection speed, tutorials, round count, round time, and comments.
Vs mode has 1p V 2p, 1p V CPU, and CPU V CPU.
22 characters.
You can play with a single Joycon each.
19 locations to fight in.
Fast loading times.
The game can be as accessible or as detailed as you want so it accommodates all types of players.

Phantom Breaker Omnia Review Cons:

In story mode, you cannot bring up your character’s moves and attacks.
The buttons are just marked with lp and hp which is not always ideal.
The story has weird little tasks to do in order to progress and it’s not great at explaining it all.
Cannot just straight-up skip cutscenes.

Phantom Breaker Omnia:

Official website.

Developer: MAGES. Inc

Publisher: Rocket Panda Games

Store Links –

Nintendo

8/10
Graphics - 8/10
8/10
Sound - 8/10
7/10
Accessibility - 7/10
7/10
Length - 7/10
7/10
Fun Factor - 7/10

7.4/10

Summary

Never being a huge fighting game player I always worry a game will alienate me with complex movesets and fiddly mechanics. In Phantom Breaker Omnia this is not the case, I see it as if a game lets me button mash, pull off sick combos, feel good and legitimately have me possibly winning then it’s a good game! That is exactly what we have here, you can make Phantom Breaker Omnia as deep or as casual as you like with the three style choices as these change your stats and how you play. Even if you mess it up you can still mash your way through. The story mode is a weird goose as it has you doing particular things for it to advance the story, you can fight but you won’t actually advance the story. The fighting is fast frantic and a visual treat, the game has the fighting absolutely nailed down. The game modes are vast and provide you with the tools needed to get better or brush up. We tried out as many modes as we could and even in local play the game held up, using joy-con controllers is less than ideal but that is a personal thing. The takeaway here is Phantom Breaker Omnia is an absolute banger of a fighting game and provides everything a fighting game fan would need.