Title: Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero
Release date: 2025
Platforms: Nintendo Switch™, PS4®, PS5®, and Steam® **Steam version to follow later in 2025!
Genre: Strategy RPG
Players: 1
Text Languages: English, French
Audio Languages: English, Japanese
Developer: Nippon Ichi Software, Inc.
Hello video gamers, DarkdaemonPK here and welcome again to one of my posts. It’s no secret that I like Phantom Brave, the 2004 strategy role playing game released by NIS America on the PS2. I happily spent over 250 hours of playing that game during my college days only to stop because my copy went bust. I have dreamed of this game having a sequel but unfortunately, NIS only went on concentrated with their flagship Disgaea series since it’s more practical to focus on what fans like which reeled in the dough. Over the years, Phantom Brave received many ports from 2009 starting with the Nintendo Wii, the PSP in 2010-2011, Steam in 2016, and lastly on the Nintendo Switch in 2021. The ports had added content like more stories and better graphics which is fine, but I want a sequel.
Finally, my prayers had been answered since Phantom brave will finally have its long-awaited sequel by 2025; a span of 21 years before NIS finally agreed to do it. Judging on the trailer, Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero will introduce a new character named Apricot who is also a phantom like Ash. The game also used the same character CG found in Disgaea 6 and 7. A new mechanic for The Lost Hero incorporates a fusion system where Marona was able to combine with Apricot. The new game still used the same grid free battle system found in the previous one which is the trademark of Phantom Brave where it was also utilized in Makai Kingdom in 2005 (Phantom Kingdom in Japan) albeit improved. Sandy Fox and Lex Lang returns to voice Marona and Ash respectively which is kind of nice since it gives me nostalgia galore. No information yet on other vital information found in the game, but I’m sure it will surface very soon in the coming days. Stay tuned for more details.
-DarkdaemonPK2
Sources:
https://nisamerica.com/phantombrave-the-lost-hero/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Brave
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