Phantom Brave

Phantom Brave is a tactical role-playing game with battles that take place on an isometric board. Marona dispatches her phantom allies by confining them to objects on the field, such as trees, grass, rocks, and flowers. Different objects grant different stat bonuses to the characters that are confined to them, making it advantageous to confine certain characters to certain things. A soldier, for example, often benefits from the stat bonuses found on a rock because of his physical combat abilities, whereas a witch works better when summoned out of a flower or another object that increases its magical abilities.

Up to 14 phantoms can be dispatched during any given battle, but the phantoms can only be confined to the physical world for a particular number of turns. The number of turns that a character can stay confined is based upon their class. For example, a witch can stay on the field for three turns, while a soldier lasts eight. While a high confine is desirable for continuous use of the character, a low confine number is actually advantageous if the player intends to either reuse the item to confine another phantom or take items back from the battlefield permanently, or for bomber units.

The protagonist of Phantom Brave is a 13-year-old girl named Marona. Marona lives on Phantom Isle in the oceanic world of Ivoire with a phantom named Ash. While he was still alive, Ash worked alongside Marona's parents Jasmine and Haze as a Chroma, a sort of bounty hunter or adventurer for hire. On an assignment on the Isle of Evil, a fragment of a malevolent being known as Sulphur attacked the group, mortally wounding them.

Using the last of his life energy, Haze attempted to revive the party after the battle. However, there was only enough life left in him to bring Ash back as a phantom. Haze and Jasmine's dying wish was for Ash to watch over their then infant daughter Marona.

The game received "generally favorable reviews" on all platforms except the PSP version, which received "mixed" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. S. release date. Edge gave the original game a score of seven out of ten, saying, "Nippon Ichi's disregard for the cult of stagnated updates is at once exhilarating and unnerving.

It's exhilarating because it leaves the player wondering exactly where these craftsmen of the strategy minutiae will go next, and it's unnerving because Phantom Brave's reworking is a bridge too far for all but the most dedicated of videogame strategists." In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 33 out of 40 for the original game, and 32 out of 40 for the PSP version.