Introduction

Introduction

Welcome to the Phoenix 2 guide! This guide is for the Japanese style shoot-em-up game Phoenix 2, which is the successor to Phoenix HD (and Phoenix, the former being the HD remastered version). I will not be going through the basics of this game as you can either explore it on your own, is just not important to mention, or it's something that is imperatively obvious just by playing Phoenix 2. Instead, I'll be covering as much technical details as I know, less known information you may not discover just by playing casually, as well as detailed strategies for playing this game.

A very detailed Tier List, which will be updated where possible if there are either new ships added or if there are any balance changes, is also included for players who are here simply looking for the best ships to use. It might be a good idea to read through the guide completely (if you have the time as it is a lot of information) as I will be going through a lot of generic strategies under Auras and Zens (in the Ships section), as well as under Weapons (in the Invaders section) that may not be covered in the Tier List.

Here's a quick list of all ships that you can jump to, sorted alphabetically.

This guide aims to be as comprehensive as possible, both in the survivability and speedrunning aspects. It is organized in the best way I could, but you may need to jump around the sections in this guide to get the complete picture you require (E.g. You are looking how to use a specific ship in a specific mission type). It is thus essential to understand the layout of this guide to understand how to navigate your way around. The bold and underline brief description at the start of each section tells you what it is about.

If you are looking for fun, you might wish to explore it on your own instead. The Tier List attempts to identify the fun ships you can use, but fun is very subjective to an individual. It is best you go try things on your own, using this Tier List as a very rough gauge. You can perhaps decide whether a ship is fun to you based on the gameplay videos included in the Tier List, and not what I might have to say about its fun value. The guide also attempts to identify unique ships that you can play that is likely to feel very different from most of the other ships, but once again, this can be subjective as well.

If you just want to look for a specific piece of information within this massive guide, GameFAQs includes a search feature that shows you all instances where your search term appears in the guide. Simply scroll down from any page in this guide to trigger a search bar at the top bar of your screen (works for both desktop and mobile).

This guide is accurate as of Phoenix 2 Version 6.3.11.

Guide Status:
Active Maintenance (Specialist Mission cycle updates and patching in new videos)

The Copyright Information of this guide is clearly indicated in the last section of this guide. Please read it if you intend to replicate any content of this guide on your own resources, as you must adhere to this Copyright Information.

Please read the Glossary section before you proceed to read the rest of the guide, otherwise you will get lost.

Affiliation with Phoenix 2 Wiki (p2myth.club)

This guide is affiliated with the Phoenix 2 Wiki, which is hosted on https://p2myth.club/. The contents of this guide may be found rehashed on the Phoenix 2 Wiki, generally in its entirety. Some contents from the Phoenix 2 Wiki can be rehashed in this guide in paraphrased form.

This GameFAQs guide differs from the Phoenix 2 Wiki in several ways.

• Some terminology used will differ from the Phoenix 2 Wiki.
• The Tier List in this GameFAQs guide is built by myself only, the guide author. Meanwhile, the Tier List in the Phoenix 2 Wiki is built by several contributing members. This will thus make this guide a lot more biased since it is from the perspective of only one player.
• While the Phoenix 2 Wiki also uses the same 3 tier holistic rating system, their definition of fun is different since it is gathered from different contributing members, which find different ships fun and have a certain bias towards some ships. The ranking criteria for the tier list on the wiki isn't so clearly defined as well.
• The Phoenix 2 Wiki is built around a community and thus has some community inputs inside their guide. It is built by more people, unlike this guide which is only built by myself, the guide author.
• The Phoenix 2 Wiki encourages readers to engage with the community themselves. They have forums to consult, platforms to give community input on the improvement of the wiki, and even challenges that are announced. Meanwhile, this guide only briefly mentions about them. This is simply because this guide is not biased towards any community.
• The Phoenix 2 Wiki has fun community content such as fan art and fan stories/lore about the ships and Phoenix 2 game itself. You will not find that in this GameFAQs guide as this guide is meant to be a factual guide (with some opinions from the guide author).

This guide and the Phoenix 2 Wiki has agreed to go separate ways since the Phoenix 2 Wiki has reached completion status and is considered to be under Active Maintenance. Thus, you will no longer find newer content in this guide to be replicated on the Phoenix 2 Wiki, only older content. If content on the Phoenix 2 Wiki is outdated, there will be a re-direct link on that page to this guide. This has not yet been done on the Phoenix 2 Wiki.