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In the world of Ivoire lives Marona, an orphan with the ability to speak with phantoms. Though shunned by society, she believes in helping others. With her phantom companion Ash, Marona aims to purchase the mysterious Phantom Isle.
Phantom Brave PC is a rpg, jrpg and strategy rpg game
developed by Nippon Ichi Software and Inc.
and published by NIS America and Inc..
Released on July 25th 2016 is available only on Windows
in 2 languages: English and Japanese.
It has received 646 reviews of which 551 were positive and 95 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
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- OS *: Windows 7/8/10
- Processor: Intel Core2 Quad Q9300 2.5 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Radeon HD 5450
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I beat it, wow, the difficulty of this game is pretty brutal. Some mildly spoilery tips I can suggest after playing through the game: Read up on how to abuse titles and farming dungeons with the failure title. Else you are in a world of hurt trying to grind and keep up with a less cheat-y strategy. Also read up about bottle mail phantoms and how you can use them to break the game. Speed is ludicrously unbalanced. You break your speed, you kill the game. You turn into the worse scenario of the Flash unable to slow down and the world is now permanently still. Final thoughts overall, the story felt unfinished toward the end. Some stuff kind of felt forgotten or just didn't have enough time to weave certain characters deeper into the story. Some characters like Sienna and Walnut felt half finished on what they wanted them to do in the plot. It was great hearing Steve Blum and his amazing journey doing nothing but getting drunk with a bird person for the whole game. Did the shades wearing bird person ever have a name? In fact, this game has a great list of voice actors who all show up in this game which made it worth playing just for the nostalgia whiplash and 'wait, you're in this game too?'. I wish there was a auto sort for skills. After merging a weapon, that had 13 or so other weapons merged into it beforehand, what a mistake. Her skill list was a nightmare to wade through afterward. I didn't really like the class system of this game compared to other nipon ichii games. It felt like the weapons were more of the characters than the actual characters holding them. Overall, is a hard game to get through. Good luck.
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If you want to try one of the NIS SRPGs other than Disgaea, either play this or Soul Nomad. Maybe La Pucelle as well, although that's a harder recommend. I actually did not like this game at first. It did not make a good first impression for me, and I dropped it, only to come back to it a few years later. Most of my playtime has since been on the Switch version, which I recommend over this one, same as with every other NIS SRPG. I'll get into some of the problems I had with the game at first later. Phantom Brave is certainly a unique SRPG, even compared to the other NIS games. The game it's most similar to is Makai Kingdom, but it doesn't actually play much like Makai Kingdom other than superficial similarities like both being gridless turn based games. The general gameplay involves Marona summoning phantoms by confining them into objects. The phantoms last a few turns before disappearing, which means Marona is the only player character who doesn't have a turn limit. Phantoms are effectively player units, spread into different classes whose stats are further modified by the object you confine them to. This, combined with the gridless gameplay, leads to a lot of strategic implications the player needs to consider. On top of that, everything can be used as a weapon. This includes the objects you can confine phantoms to, as well as the phantoms themselves if they are unarmed. Nothing stops you from using a crate as a weapon, or grabbing an enemy and using them to hit another enemy. That said... There are downsides to this system. Since every item is usable as a weapon, every character can only have one item equipped. There is no equipable armor in this game, nor are there consumable items. You also sometimes take home a confined item if a phantom runs out of turns, which means you'll have to go through your inventory to occasionally prune out unwanted items before you hit the rather low inventory cap. Phantom Brave did start a few trends that spread to a few other NIS games. For example, all the "out of battle" utility services such as shops and healing are actually done by the same phantoms you can use, and their skills with these services improve as they level. So you might want to actually level up your blacksmith, merchant, fusionist, etc even if you have better units. Phantom Brave is also the first game to feature the Saber Kitty/Slumber cat/Deathsaber monster which inexplicably appears in almost every NIS game after this came out, including the re-release of Disgaea 2. This is a pretty cool game, but there's some issues with it. Every one of the main stats is occasionally used to calculate damage for certain attacks, which sounds neat at first as you can have high defense characters use their defense stat to attack when equipped with rocks. However since the speed stat also dictates how quick your next turn is, having that stat high and using attacks based on that stat is vastly better than trying to raise both speed and another stat to use to attack. There's also the issue in that there's surprisingly no "ranged" weapons in this game, in spite of the fact that the Archer class from Disgaea is here. There's no bow, no gun, and even spells have fairly low range limits compared to other NIS games. There's also the same high level issue every NIS game before Disgaea 5 has, in that damage calculations tend to result in defensive stats not being able to keep up, making high level combat a oneshotfest. Granted you WANT combat in Phantom Brave to be quick due to the turn limit on phantoms, so it's not as big of a deal in this game. Anyway, problems aside, this is a cool game. It's the only non-Disgaea NIS SRPG I'd consider better than some of the Disgaea games. There's a bunch of tinkering mechanics to it such as "titles" which give stat boosts to items, characters and dungeons. There's fusion, which lets you combine 2 characters/items to adjust their stats. Looking forward to getting the sequel on Switch soon.
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Phantom Brave is a unique game. It's got interesting gameplay, awesome characters, and endless random dungeons. If you like customizing a character's moveset (you can give any character or weapon most of the skills except for a unique few) and dungeon crawling (the max level of this game is 9999), you should try Phantom Brave! I love this game so much I have it on PS2, PSP, and now Steam. I was really impressed when this 20-year-old game got a patch fix AND a QoL update on Steam recently. For a while the game was unplayable for certain AMD users including myself due to graphics issues but it's been fixed on my old machine, fingers crossed it runs fine on yours too. There's an active dev team trying to get this game working still in 2024 and I think that says a lot about the game. <3
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One of the most unique and interesting battle system N1 did. A light hearted dramatic story with an ost that is perfect for it. A complete version of the game with quality nice addition to the original that goes unnoticed but makes it far more confortable to play like the removal of 128 items limit. Finaly a non disgaea game with a direct sequel too. Even though Soul Nomad is an inderect one due to the presence of one character in it.
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I played Phantom Brave over a decade ago on the Wii. I'm surprised that I love it just as much as I did back then. I'm probably going to put 200+ hours into this game to do all the completionist criteria. It's a really great game with a decent story that still manages to pull my heart strings! It's a great game to play in long bouts or short spurts. Grinding for the main story is relatively unnecessary, but for the post-game content grinding and guides are almost required.
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Phantom Brave PC is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
Phantom Brave PC is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.
Phantom Brave PC received 551 positive votes out of a total of 646 achieving a rating of 8.03.
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Phantom Brave PC was developed by Nippon Ichi Software and Inc. and published by NIS America and Inc..
Phantom Brave PC is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Phantom Brave PC is not playable on MacOS.
Phantom Brave PC is not playable on Linux.
Phantom Brave PC is a single-player game.
Phantom Brave PC does not currently offer any DLC.
Phantom Brave PC does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Phantom Brave PC does not support Steam Remote Play.
Phantom Brave PC is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Nippon Ichi Software, Inc.
Publisher
NIS America, Inc.
Release
25 Jul 2016
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