You are the Phantom, searching for the evil Rebecca Madison in the vast city of Metropia. As head of Maximum, Inc., she will stop at nothing to fulfil her twisted plans to control the world... unless you can overpower her. Vicious bosses and hordes of biots, programmed to destroy you, relentlessly attack of every turn. But you strike back with an arsenal of heavy-duty weapons including a smart gun, inductance rope, homing missile, and many others. Use two weapons at once to double your chances of survival! Then control your destiny as you weave your way through more than 60 incredible levels! The danger is staggering. The fate of the city, the eco-system, and all of humanity rests on your abilities. You know what must be done to save Metropia and the world from certain doom.
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This game is pretty damn ambitious for the time. I feel like if it actually was a Batman game then it would have been remembered more fondly. You basically have a bunch of gadgets, which you collect by searching them out; starting out you can already cling to walls and climb up them, swing from ceilings, and you also have a gun, more akin to Metroid.
It's essentially a Metroidvania, except all the areas are split up on a selectable map screen and not interconnected, but it also has a branching narrative on top of it. Biggest flaw is figuring out what you need to do next, a guide might be a necessity; as a kid, aimless wandering didn't really get me anywhere at all.
Soundtrack is a bit odd with those SNES guitar midi sounds used a lot.
I don't know if this game is a good or bad thing. I do know that when I was a child I thought this game was endless and couldn't be beaten. Even for games of this era, when you look up a full playthrough of this game it takes quite a while longer than most of it's contemporaries. For example, one of those tall platformers I played recently was X-Men 2: Clone Wars. A full playthrough of that on youtube is 47 minutes. A full playthrough of Phantom 2040 is over three hours. For these old games, that's a fuckin while! No wonder I thought this game lasted forever, it comparatively does.
I still can't tell you if it's good, just that I liked it and maybe one day I'll beat it.
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