History YMMV / PhantomBreaker

* FanNickname: ''Battle Grounds'' has earned itself "''Phantom Breaker vs. The World''" by fans of both the aforementioned game and ''VideoGame/ScottPilgrim vs. The World: The Game''.

* PlayTheGameSkipTheStory: Par for the course with ''Phantom Breaker'' and its re-releases; despite each character having interesting backstories, the game does not fully flesh the world or it characters as much other than justifying who their next opponent is. This however may also be another example of an EnforcedTrope as the game's narrative was substantially cut down to focus on the gameplay during its original development (see the Trivia tab for details).

* FanNickname: ''Battle Grounds'' has earned itself "''Phantom Breaker [[VideoGame/ScottPilgrim vs. The World]]''" by fans of both works.

* BrokenBase: Since the release of ''Omnia'', there has been a number of fans of other tournament fighting games such as ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', ''Franchise/BlazBlue'', and ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' among others whom put ''Phantom Breaker: Omnia'' down, complaining that its lack of single-player content, no character trials, no rollback netcode, no special moves list (despite the game's special move are ''very'' basic to pull off), and lack of polish from the launch day issues to write it off as a bad game and/or a shallow {{button mash|ing}}er. Fans of ''Phantom Breaker'', on the other hand, have tried to argue against such claims that the game's "pick up and play" nature and nuanced approach to fighting games allows beginners to enjoy combo-centric fighting games such as ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' without the need to memorize complex button commands while offering various ways to experiment with each character that suits their gameplay style and many of the initial release issues has since been addressed with patches, yet the former camp often derides fans of the latter which led to some heated arguments in online forums.

* MorePopularSpinoff: ''Battle Grounds'' to the main fighting games, largely due to the latter being stuck in DevelopmentHell and NoExportForYou... At least until the release of ''Omnia''.

** ''Phantom Breaker'' itself may be one to ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' given the similarities of different Styles that provide different playstyles and mechanics of each character and fast-paced combo-based gameplay.

* BrokenBase: Since the release of ''Omnia'', there has been a number of fans of other tournament fighting games such as ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', ''Franchise/BlazBlue'', and ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' among others whom ''Phantom Breaker: Omnia'' down complaining that its lack of single-player content, no character trials, no rollback netcode, no special moves list (despite the game's special move are ''very'' basic to pull off), and lack of polish from the launch day issues to write it off as a bad game and/or a shallow {{button mash|ing}}er. Fans of ''Phantom Breaker'', on the other hand, have tried to argue against such claims that the game's "pick up and play" nature and nuanced approach to fighting games allows beginners to enjoy combo-centric fighting games such as ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' without the need to memorize complex button commands while offering various ways to experiment with each character that suits their gameplay style and many of the initial release issues has since been addressed with patches, yet the former camp often derides fans of the latter which led to some heated arguments in online forums.

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Battle Grounds'' is probably the closest thing to a ''VideoGame/PanzerBandit'' sequel.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Both games have some catchy tunes and ''[=BattleGrounds=]''[='=] 8-bit chiptunes are very reminiscent of the NES ''VideoGame/{{Mega Man|Classic}}'' games and ''Creator/{{Konami}}'' titles.
* DemonicSpider: The Magician type enemy in ''[=BattleGrounds=]'', particularly the fire one. Their fire behave like your Outrange attacks meaning it will relentlessly chase you around and it's also painful as hell. If you ever find yourself fighting 4 of them at the same time, you're done for.
* FanNickname: ''Battle Grounds'' has earned itself "''Phantom Breaker [[VideoGame/ScottPilgrim vs. The World]]''".

* MorePopularSpinoff: ''[=BattleGrounds=]'' to the main fighting games, largely due to the latter being stuck in DevelopmentHell and NoExportForYou... At least until the release of ''Omnia''.
* NightmareFuel:
** Demonsphere, the sixth stage in ''[=BattleGrounds=]'' is a [[MoodWhiplash huge, unexpected shift in tone]] from the bright, retro-inspired locales of Japan. It's a dark, maze-like dimension littered with bones and corpses everywhere you go. On the Nightmare difficulty and above, players are required to find and destroy a cursed Japanese Ogre and Ko-omote mask to advance. Said masks are bloodied and decrepit, ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou and stare right at the player]]''.

* PolishedPort: The Switch port of ''Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Overdrive'' has been considered as a solid way of the game to play. Despite initially lacking the Arcade Mode and online multiplayer features from previous versions at launch while removing the branching level paths that was introduced in the [=PlayStation=] port, it retains many of its new features and improvements while further rebalancing the game and bundling all of the game's DLC to make for these omissions. The hybrid console nature of the Switch was also put to good use as it not only allows players to enjoy the game on the go, local multiplayer games can easily be set up by both using the separate [=JoyCons=], and later game updates eventually re-instated the missing Arcade Mode and online multiplayer components.
* SpiritualSuccessor: ''[=BattleGrounds=]'' is probably the closest thing to a ''VideoGame/PanzerBandit'' sequel.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Frau's theme has some notes very reminiscent of Ken's theme from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII''.