For those of you who are here for the first time, it’s great to meet you all. For those of you who are back, welcome back. My name is Sakari “P,” and I’m the Director/Producer of Phantom Breaker: Omnia.
Last month, we announced the delay of Omnia to 2022. I deeply apologize for this. We are currently in the QA process, and if all goes well, we will be able to submit a master to each platform in good time.
It was on October 15th of last year (my birthday) that we first announced Phantom Breaker: Omnia. Fast forward to present day, and I have since aged a full year. I didn’t think it was going to be this hard…
Let’s shift gears and talk about today’s topic: achievements and trophies.
There aren’t a lot of people these days who aren’t familiar with achievements and trophies in video games. The achievement system was first introduced on the Xbox 360 system, and since then, other platforms like Steam, PlayStation, and a number of Epic Store games have adopted this system. Many gamers have become addicted to unlocking all achievements.
I was one of those gamers who got hooked on achievements back in the Xbox 360 days. I own every console, but the games I spent the most time on were Xbox games.
I think the achievement system is a very useful system, both from the player’s perspective and from the developer’s perspective.
From the player’s perspective, the system allows a player to measure their level of completion of a game. From the developer’s perspective, achievements allow us to visualize player trends. For example, by comparing how many players have obtained the “Mikoto” achievement versus the “Tokiya” achievement, the developers can see which character is more popular. And by looking at the statistics for “Watch Ending,” developers can see how many people played to the end of the game. This serves as reference data for future game development.
Achievements are great, but sometimes there are also achievements that have overly difficult conditions that make them utterly painful to obtain.
Personally, I like to stay away from including overly difficult achievement conditions in the games I work on. Having said that, though, I don’t want them to be too simple and easy either. I like the achievements to serve as a way for the player to gain a better understanding of the game mechanics and be something that can be obtained by playing the game naturally.
In Omnia, the achievement list consists of achievements from both the original Phantom Breaker and Phantom Breaker: Extra for players who are new to the Phantom Breaker series. There are also ways you can show off your game completion rate to your friends outside of the achievement system.
Anyways, below is a list of some achievements/trophies. This list is limited to what we can publicly reveal at the moment, so this list doesn’t include all of the available achievements.
| Omnia Master | Unlocked all the trophies in Phantom Breaker: Omnia. |
| Clock Up! | Used Overdrive during Quick Style. |
| Solid Armor! | Used Overdrive during Hard Style. |
| Counter Burst! | Landed a Counter Burst. |
| Guard Break! | Broke an opponent’s guard. |
| Emergency! | Activated Emergency. |
| Is This What a Clash Feels Like?! | Caused 10 Clashes within a single round. |
| Don’t Touch Me | Performed a successful Throw Break. |
| JUST Don’t Touch Me | Performed a successful Just Throw Break. |
| Connect! | Landed an Enhanced Special Attack via Super Cancel. |
| I Have No Choice But to Use This… | Ended the round with a Super Finishing Move. |
| Evasion for Days | Performed 5 successful Slip Shifts in a single round. |
| Parries for Days | Used Protection successfully 5 times in a single round. |
| With All My Strength | Won a round with a Critical Burst. |
| Is This the Power of Clock Up?! | Dealt a cumulative total of 30 hits using Clock Up in a single round. |
| Is This the Power of Solid Armor?! | Withstood a cumulative total of 10 hits using Solid Armor in a single round. |
| Didn’t See That Coming | Landed a Cross Counter Burst. |
| Avatar | Performed a 30HIT combo. |
| Like an Avatar | Performed a 40HIT combo. |
| Dedicate This Avatar to the Gods | Performed a 50HIT combo. |
| Omnia Style | Performed an Enhanced Special Attack 4 consecutive times. |
| Cantabile of Damage | Dealt over 68,000 points of cumulative damage. |
| Master of Clashes | Caused over 1000 cumulative Clashes. |
| Kitty Flip 1620 | Performed over 300 cumulative Air Recoveries. |
| Master of Evasion | Performed 100 cumulative Slip Shifts. |
| Master of Parries | Performed 100 cumulative Protections. |
| Arcade Mode Conquered!! | Cleared Arcade Mode. |
| Scored on the Score Attack Leaderboard! | Placed on the Score Attack Mode leaderboard. |
| Clocked in on the Time Attack Leaderboard! | Placed on the Time Attack Mode leaderboard. |
| Fought Onto the Endless Battle Leaderboard! | Placed on the Endless Battle Mode leaderboard. |
| Bring It On! | Turned on the standby function. |
| Mikoto | Used Mikoto. |
| Mei | Used Mei. |
| Waka | Used Waka. |
| Yuzuha | Used Yuzuha. |
| Ria | Used Ria. |
| M | Used M. |
| Ren | Used Ren. |
| Tokiya | Used Tokiya. |
| Itsuki | Used Itsuki. |
| Cocoa | Used Cocoa. |
| Infinity | Used Infinity. |
| Fin | Used Fin. |
| Rimi | Used Rimi. |
| Kurisu | Used Kurisu. |
| Sophia | Used Sophia. |
| Shizuka | Used Shizuka. |
| Ende | Used Ende. |
| Gaito | Used Gaito. |
| Shiro-Mikoto | Used Shiro-Mikoto. |
| L | Used L. |
| Then, to Extra | Cleared Mikoto’s Story Mode. |
| Then, to Battle Grounds | Watched Waka’s bad ending. |
| I Am the True Phantom Breaker | Cleared Sophia’s Story Mode. |
| Never Forget | Played the game on September 14th or cleared Waka’s Story Mode. |
| Insomniac | Played the game for over two hours. |
You may have realized at this point that the Nintendo Switch does not have an achievement system at the console level. So how will players obtain them on Switch? For the Switch version of the game, the achievements/trophies system will be built into the game.
Let’s take a look at the achievement screen on the Nintendo Switch version of the game. This is where you can view your game progress. I will also include screenshots taken in all available languages.
This episode may not have been the most exciting entry for those of you who aren’t very interested in achievements and trophies, but I hope that Omnia will pique your curiosity. And if you do love achievements and trophies, Omnia is the perfect game for you!
That’s it for today, everyone.
Until next time.