However, both games suffer from a dated graphical presentation to some extent or another. Soul Nomad feels even more experimental, but that experiment is difficult to get onboard with - the gameplay is harder to get into, its characters are outright unlikeable, and its plot is just terrible. Phantom Brave is, quite simply, a classic within the genre, one that plays very differently from the Disgaea franchise while still making use of some of that franchise’s strongest gameplay elements, all while combining it with wonderful characters and a great story.
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Both games are wildly inventive and original within the genre, but I would argue that only one of the two games succeeds at what it’s trying to do. In short, this is an extremely uneven package.
There may be some who will find this game’s unique approach to the genre enjoyable, but most will want to skip it. That is on top of a presentation that looks outright ugly, with bland environments and terrible, blurry, low-resolution pixel art characters. In theory there’s some excellent ideas here, but the gameplay is tedious and overly-confusing, the characters are unlikeable, and the story is poorly-constructed. Soul Nomad is a Strategy-RPG that has players building squads of fighters rather than managing individual characters, and it has a clever central mechanic where players are for all intents and purposes being possessed by the devil and must constantly weigh their needs in battle against the temptation to use this forbidden power and lose more of themselves to it.
This is a game fans of the genre should absolutely play. While there are absolutely flaws in this release, this is nevertheless an outstanding entry in the genre, with phenomenal deep gameplay, tons of enjoyable grinding potential, a good soundtrack, and a surprisingly touching story from the usually-irreverent NIS. The gridless movement can lead to characters all piling up in one place and making it difficult to make out what’s going on, and the Nintendo Switch version’s muddy, low-res pixel art characters look pretty terrible, though the rest of the game’s visuals are revitalized by higher resolutions and better framerates. Phantom Brave brings multiple extremely inventive ideas to the genre, including its possession-focused Confine system and gridless movement. Phantom Brave: The Hermuda Triangle Remastered Here is what I thought of each of the games in this collection: Game Soul Nomad was originally released on PlayStation 2 in 2007 and ported to Nintendo Switch in 2021.īoth of these games play very differently than NIS’s flagship Strategy-RPG franchise, Disgaea, and take the genre in very different and unique directions.
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Phantom Brave was originally released on the PlayStation 2 in 2004 and later ported to the Wii in 2009, the PlayStation Portable in 2011, and the PC in 2016, with these later ports including an additional story called Another Marona (which is included in this release as well). Prinny Presents NIS Classics Volume 1: Phantom Brave: The Hermuda Triangle Remastered / Soul Nomad & the World Eaters (from here on referred to simply as NIS Classics Volume 1) is a compilation of the two titular Turn-Based Strategy-RPGs.
Genre: Compilation / Turn-Based Strategy-RPG Prinny Presents NIS Classics Volume 1: Phantom Brave: The Hermuda Triangle Remastered / Soul Nomad & the World Eaters
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