Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Overdrive

Controls

• move
• weak attack button
• Mid attack button
• Strong attack button
• SP button
• line movement button
• Long ranged attack button
• Pause Menu Button
• Empowered Special/Super Finishing Special
• Overdrive/Emergency
• *Default settings

Basic Controls

• Moving forward
  Press the L stick in the intended direction to move forward.
• Crouch
  Press the L stick down to crouch in place.
• Jump
  Press the L stick up to jump. You can also jump diagonally.
• Guard
  Leaving the L stick in neutral position without taking any action will guard the enemy attacks.
• Crouching guard.
  Pressing the L stick down without taking any action will guard the enemy's low attacks.
• Weak Attack
  Launch a weak but fast attack
• Mid Attack
  Launch an attack stronger than the Weak Attack
• Strong Attack
  Launch an attack stronger than the Mid Attack.
• SP
  Launch various skills by combining with the L stick and other attack buttons.
• Dash
  Press the L stick in the running direction twice rapidly to dash forward.
• Line movement.
  Press the L button to move to the opposite line.
• Revive.(*During CO-OP only)
  Mash the attack buttons near an incapacitated player to revive them.

Practical Controls

• Throw
  Approach an enemy and press the L Stick + Attack Button to throw an enemy.
• Clash
  If the two characters' dash or attacks hit each other they will be in a clash state.
• Guard Break
  Guarding the enemy's attack for a prolonged period will change the color of the guard effect, signalling that the guard will soon break.
  During guard break, you will be defenseless for a set period of time.
• Back Attack
  Press an attack button at the moment you receive an attack from behind.
• Back Step
  Hold the SP button and press the L stick toward the character's back.
• Out Range Attack
  Press the Mid Attack Button + Strong Attack Button together to launch an Out Range Attack that is capable of attacking in a wider range. The properties of the Out Range Attack will vary depending on the amount of Burst Gauge charged (*uses Burst Gauge 0-99%)
• Empowered Out Range Attack
  Press the Mid Attack Button + Strong Attack Button together while your Burst Gauge is charged 100% or more to activate a fully empowered Out Ranged Attack (uses all burst gauge 100%~)
• Throw Break
  Press the command for a "Throw" when the opponent is about to throw you, in order to escape their throw.
• Recovery
  Press one of the buttons during air hit stagger, wall hit stagger, or knockdown landing to immediately get back up.
• Rising action.
  Mash any of the buttons while knocked down to rise back up quickly. You can also hold the direction input toward the back of the character to rise up backwards.
• Slip Shift.
  Press the L Stick toward the enemy immediately before taking a hit. If successful, you can evade the enemy attack (only on ground"
• Reflection
  Press the SP button immediately before taking damage. If successful you can parry the enemy attack and make them stagger and create an opening.
• Emergency Mode.
  Press the SP button while taking damage and being staggered to activate an emergency evasion skill. Although, this will consume a portion of your life gauge. In addition, more than 25% of life gauge is required for activation.
• Pick up an equippable item.
  Press the L Stick down to pick up an equippable item.

Skill

You can gain experience points in this game by defeating enemies and collecting items, and will level up once reaching a certain amount of experience. You can use the skill points you obtained in the Skill Setup screen and increase the desired parameters. You can also unlock new skills. It is up to the player to decide which parameters to increase or which skill to unlock first. However, there are certain prerequisite skills in order to learn the latter half of the skills, so be sure to check the skill tree. You can re-distribute the points at any time, even if you make a mistake.

Parameters

• ATTACK
  Increasing this parameter will raise attack power.
• DEFENSE
  Increasing this parameter will raise defense power.
• SPEED.
  Increasing this parameter will increase the speed of each action.

Skill

• DASH
  You will be able to attack while dashing.
• High Jump LV1
  You will be able to perform a high jump by inputting ↓↑ rapidly.
• High Jump LV2
  Your high jumps will become higher, and longer.
• Double Jump
  You will be able to jump again during a jump.
• Triple Jump
  You will be able to perform a 3 step jump.
• Guard Cancel
  You will be able to perform a Guard Cancel.
• EX Guard
  Your guard will be strengthened.
• Air Throw.
  You will be able to perform a throw in the air.
• EX Throw
  Your throw range will increase, and damage also increases.
• EX Back Attack
  Your back attack is strengthened, and will be able to blow enemies away
• Air Dash
  You will be able to perform a dash during a jump.
• Phantom Dash
  Your dash will go through enemies.
• Air Dash Attack
  You will be able to perform an attack during air dash
• Shadow Attack
  During a combo, attack with an afterimage of yourself.
• Combo LV1
  You will be able to perform a Mid Attack combination attack.
• Combo LV2
  You will be able to perform a Strong Attack combination attack.
• SP Attack LV1
  A Special Attack will be added.
• SP Attack LV2
  The damage output and other properties improve.
• EX Attack
  Use 100% of your gauge to perform an Empowered Special Attack.
• Phantom Break.
  Use 200% of your gauge to perform an Ultra Special Attack.
• Counter Burst LV1
  Perform a counter attack by holding the SP button.
• Counter Burst LV2
  The Counter attack is strengthened, and enemies blow black.
• Critical Burst.
  Use 200% of your gauge to perform a powerful counter attack.
• Overdrive LV1
  Activate overdrive that lets you attack and move rapidly for a short period of time.
• Overdrive LV2
  The duration of Overdrive increases, and the speed increases.
• Overdrive LV3
  The Overdrive duration and speed rises to maximum

Equipable items

After clearing the game once, some enemies may drop equippable items when they are defeated. These items are split into 2 general categories: Out Range Item, and Aura Item. Grab the items by getting close to it on the ground and pressing down on the L Stick.

Out Range Item

An Out Range Item, as it may sound, changes the properties of your Out Range Attacks, and there are 5 types of them. You can only equip one at a time, and picking up a new one will automatically disable the previously equipped item.

• Lightning Strike
  The basic equipped Out Range Attack. High in homing capability, but low damage output.
• Explosion
  Blow enemies away with a fiery explosion. It is a fast and easy-to-use Out Range Attack
• Ice Wall
  A wall of ice will emerge from the ground. It will cover your character's surroundings.
• Meteor
  It outputs massive damage to enemies if it hits, but whether it will hit or miss is based on luck.
• Recovery
  Summon an area of healing. While within range your life gauge recovers automatically.

Aura Item

Aura Items grant effects just by wearing them, and there are a total of 4 types. During CO-OP Mode, the effects apply to the entire team. You can only equip one at a time, and picking up a new one will automatically disable the previously equipped item.

• Experience Plus (EXP Plus)
  Increase the chance of dropping bigger experience items.
• Coin Plus
  Increase the chance of dropping bigger coin items.
• Attack Plus (ATK Plus)
  Increase attack. During Multiplayer mode, attack increases according to the number of players equipped.
• Defense Plus (DEF Plus)
  Increase Defense. During Multiplayer mode, defense increases according to the number of players equipped.

Item

Items drop when defeating enemies and destroying trash cans. These items can be picked up just by touching them. The types of items are the following.

Food items

Obtaining them recovers your HP. Each character has their likes and dislikes, and will determine the amount of HP recovered.

Point items

The items shaped like money are point items. The item's score increases according to the strength of the enemy and number of combos performed.

Power-up Item.

• Red Gem
  Obtaining them grant experience. The experience amount increases by its shape from spherical, square, and diamond shapes, respectively.
• Blue Gem
  Increases Burst Gauge. Amount increases by its shape from spherical, square, and diamond shapes, respectively.
• Flashing Gem
  For a period of time, enter Solid Armor Overdrive state. Active duration increases by its shape of spherical, square, and diamond shapes, respectively. The Solid Armor removes the hit stagger when taking damage, and your Mid and Strong attacks increases the enemy's hit stagger duration.