Within minutes of diving into the first region of Phantom Spark, I'm cursing myself. I'm watching my own ghost zoom off into the distance as I fail – again – to get the perfect line on that long curve. I know ticking off the final challenge for this level is within reach and yet I just keep failing on this one bend. My ghost mocks me, telling me I've done it before and can do again – although clearly not this time. But, by the time I've hit B and restarted the track, I'm back in, locked into the quest for speed and exercising that ghostly personal best.
Phantom Spark from developer Ghosts and publisher Coatsink just got revealed as part of the latest Future Games Show showcase. Like classic WipeOut or Thumper, Phantom Spark is an intense time-trial arcade racer where whipping around the tracks as fast as you can is your main goal. Tracks are short, but perfectly pitched to offer just enough challenge to ensure you're plenty happy to repeat them over and over again. As you'd expect from a game of this type, completing the tracks is easy; it's the mastering that's the real lure.
