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Reviews for Phantasia (#3674)

Review by kphair on 14 Sep 2011 (Rating: 2)

Promising shoot-em-up let down by poor controls.

This starts off promisingly. You control a chunky little spaceship shooting at the marauding aliens. It's colourful and moves quickly but the main drawback is that only one control works at a time! You can't move diagonally or fire while moving. This is enough to make the whole exercise a waste of time and as it's written in machine code there really is no excuse.

The only reason I won't give it an "awful" is because the graphics really aren't too bad and it could have been so much better if the control code had been implemented properly.

Review by Raphie on 09 Feb 2012 (Rating: 2)

As much as I really like these sort of games this one is a bit of a miss.

The graphics are nice but the main drawback is that you cannot move and fire at the same time, you have to stop moving in order to shoot which makes things very difficult and makes you an easy target.

It's not bad but there are much better early shooters out there on the WoS archive.