{"id":18356,"date":"2018-10-22T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=18356"},"modified":"2018-10-16T12:26:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T12:26:24","slug":"phantomgate-the-last-valkyrie-ios-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/22\/phantomgate-the-last-valkyrie-ios-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Phantomgate: The Last Valkyrie (iOS, Android)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The mad Norse god Odin thinks he just destroyed the last Valkryie, but he only shattered her into memory fragments.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s up to the Valkyrie\u2019s daughter Astrid to travel all over the land via Phantomgates to collect the scattered memory fragments to save her mother and defeat Odin in this action platformer RPG.\u00a0 It\u2019s based on Norse mythology as you can tell, and would probably make for a great plot for another Thor movie.\u00a0 It\u2019s available free-to-play on mobile devices but reviewed on iPad here.<\/p>\n

The game is one part 2-D platformer and one part turn-based RPG.\u00a0 As Astrid, you\u2019ll travel through gates that act like stages, and each stage can have multiple parts.\u00a0 In these stages, you\u2019ll run about in 2-D platformer fashion.\u00a0 Use the touch screen to move around and jump.\u00a0 Sometimes you can find a special Valkryie wing item that\u2019ll let you fly through the rest of the stage.\u00a0 You can also collect keys and flip switches to progress through the level.\u00a0 Sometimes you can run into people that might have a quest for you, and you can also collect gems that\u2019ll help you level up.\u00a0 To pass the level, you must find three special gems that\u2019ll unlock the gate.\u00a0 These gems can be acquired through quests, or just hidden in the level.<\/p>\n

Every so often you\u2019ll run into enemies, then the screen switches to a turn-based RPG battle.\u00a0 Astrid and your party will trade blows with the enemy.\u00a0 Use special skills and drag blue and red bubbles to aid your party and debilitate the baddies.\u00a0 The game will end if you lose all your hit points.\u00a0 Because of how the game changes from 2-D platforming to RPG battles, it reminds me of an excellent game I reviewed a few years ago called Child of Light.<\/p>\n

After a stage, you\u2019ll be sent back to a hub world where you can manage your party before tackling the next stage.\u00a0 While in battle, sometimes you can collect the enemy\u2019s souls.\u00a0 The enemies in this game are called phantoms, and if you can collect them, you\u2019ll be able to summon them to help you out in battle.\u00a0 So the game has kind of a Pok\u00e9mon aspect to it, too.\u00a0 The only main problem I had with this game was that to level up your phantoms, you have to go through a lot of fiddly menus and make sure you have the right materials to enhance and evolve them.\u00a0 But anyone who has dabbled in one of these free-to-play RPGs knows what to expect with that.\u00a0 Also the touch screen 2-D platforming controls can be slightly clunky.\u00a0 I know that with mobile games, the term \u2018console quality\u2019 gets thrown around a bit, but that phrase definitely applies here.\u00a0 I almost wish they would release a streamlined version of this game for consoles at some point.\u00a0 The mix of RPG battles and 2-D exploration is fun, and the Norse legend characters are neat.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can hit monsters with weapons and magic, but they just fall down when defeated and that\u2019s as violent as it gets.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and because of the complexity of the game, I\u2019d say it\u2019s best for older kid gamers.\u00a0 Parental supervision is recommended for the in-game purchases and ads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The mad Norse god Odin thinks he just destroyed the last Valkryie, but he only shattered her into memory fragments.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s up to the Valkyrie\u2019s daughter Astrid to travel all over the land via Phantomgates to collect the scattered memory fragments to save her mother and defeat Odin in this action platformer RPG.\u00a0 It\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18358,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18356\/revisions\/18358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}