star fragments Should be something you can buy

[Phantom Cards]

I feel like if your having issues on a boss and you wish to use a summon, seems counter productive to limit it like this. Its like hey you only get 5 shots or your on your own. I hear you can farm them a bit as well but IDK it just seemed odd to add kinda a limit on something thats for those who need help

[Reverend Belial]

They just shouldn't be a limited item full stop. Is there literally any other Souls game that makes phantoms a consumable item?

[ChrisAkira]

Originally posted by Reverend Belial:

They just shouldn't be a limited item full stop. Is there literally any other Souls game that makes phantoms a consumable item?

In a way, yes. Demon Souls you needed to be in Human form (either killing a boss and staying alive until you can summon, or using a consumable to instantly regain humanity) to be able to summon, Bloodborne you needed to consume Insight to be able to use the summoning bell, Dark Souls you needed to Reverse Hollowing at bonfires using Humanity consumables to then be Human and be able to summon.

I get that some of these have alternatives to having to directly consume an item, but there have always been consumables you can use to add summon chances. It's strange that there doesn't seem to be a non-item variation in this game, at least not from what we saw in the demo, but it's not a feature i particularly noticed as a problem. When i got to the demo last boss i had about 15 fragments without really thinking about it or trying to farm them