![]() Phantom Class is one of the more difficult to obtain for armor at low to mid ranges, as Phantoms tend to hit hard. Small numbers of Phantom exacerbates the primary difficulty of obtaining Class on armor: the RISK accumulated by enemies. Once Ashley reaches Town Center East, the problem is solved entirely with a repeatable Trinity drop from a Crimson Blade in Shasras Hill Park. SILVER Weapons are the optimum against Phantoms early on in the game, before the Trinity Nemesis Gem is found in the Second Abandoned Mines. The same is true for armor, but this is far less convenient, with re-equipping time being quintupled, and less necessary, due to the larger number of armor drops and relative ease of obtaining Class bonuses. Whenever fighting Beast or Undead enemies, those classes will rise, and Phantom will tend to fall, albeit at a slightly lower rate. It is recommended to keep a separate weapon for Human/ Phantom, Beast/ Dragon, and Undead/ Evil enemies if one is not taking the time to attack body locations weak to Type. Wraiths teleport and use Physical magic, like the early Ghosts Phantom Class weapons Ĭlass for weapons is most easily obtained in the usual way, with Dummies Oh, you doubt it, do you? Show a little more respect for faerie tales, Riskbreaker.Phantom Class is the fourth on the ingame list, and are rare enemies throughout the game. Maybe the Bring Arts figures are a hint that Square intends to revive the long-dormant Vagrant Story property for its 20th anniversary. (Another overlooked Matsuno classic-grab it while you can.) Lea Monde is part of Ivalice, the country that's home base for the events in Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy 12, a certain questline in Final Fantasy 14, and possibly Crimson Shroud for the Nintendo 3DS. I suppose it's good we can at least experience Vagrant Story's dark, seedy setting in an indirect manner. (Vagrant Story doesn't have traditional merchants or armor sellers.) In other words, Vagrant Story is a top-tier contender for a revision or a remake, especially since your options for accessing and playing the original game are extremely limited. It's difficult, its puzzles are standard block-pushing fare, and I just never got used to upgrading my weapons via blacksmithing. In fact, if I could lob one criticism at Vagrant Story, it'd be the game's rough to get a handle on. Then again, it appears Mullenkamp cult leader Sydney Losstarot still has his low-cut leather pants-sporting a bulge that would make Labyrinth's David Bowie blush in shame, might I add-so we'll probably be OK. I do hope Bring Arts doesn't chicken out. ![]() Incidentally, Square Enix doesn't show us the back of Ashley's pants in its pictures of the Bring Arts figures. ![]() ?20?&? #bringarts #? #?20? /6HkP8sSX6k- SQEX MD GOODS FebruTo see this content please enable targeting cookies.ĭespite its quality story-or maybe because of it-at some point during development, Matsuno seemingly put his hands on his desk, leaned forward, and declared to his team, "My friends, let us not forget the great traditions of the genre Vagrant Story is part of." Hence (I guess) why Ashley has two weird, jagged tendrils of hair streaking out of his head like brown lightning bolts, and why he also straight-up wears assless chaps. ![]() Vagrant Story's narrative is of higher quality than standard JRPGs thanks to Matsuno's prowess as a writer and an excellent localization by Alexander O. Framed for murder and tormented by the deaths of his wife and son, Ashley delves deep into a dead city called Lea Monde in hopes of flushing out a cult that's taken root there. Vagrant Story, which is the work of Final Fantasy Tactics director/designer Yasumi Matsuno, tells the story of a young "Riskbreaker" named Ashley Riot. I'm not the only one who recognizes the classic PlayStation game is something special, either: Though it never received a remake or a sequel, Square Enix shared art of a couple of prototype Vagrant Story figures from Bring Arts. Today marks the 20th anniversary of Square Enix's Vagrant Story, an action-RPG that boasts one of the genre's best stories-and one of its wackiest hairstyles. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team. This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247.
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