Rationing attacks and phantoms is a key part of the game's overall strategy, and oftentimes you'll need to make do with your weaker phantoms and save your best ones for the boss. Yes, perhaps the most strategically different aspect of Phantom Brave is that your phantoms can only be on the battlefield for a few turns, and thus must be thoughtfully summoned and used before they disappear. Every item in the game (including your own minions) can also be picked up for extra stat boosts, and more importantly, used as a weapon. For example, confining a phantom to a rock will give it greater attack and defense, but lower its speed. Every object in the world can house phantoms, and will in turn bestow stat modifiers on their new inhabitants. As the explanation goes, phantoms have no physical form and thus must be channeled into a physical object in order to fight. Strategic Novelty Being a 13-year-old girl, Marona must rely on the strength of others to succeed, and summons phantoms to fight for her. Indeed, standard tactical paradigms will have to be rethought, thanks to the erasure of the world's familiar gridlines, radial movement, and Marona's phantom-summoning ability. Like all of Nippon Ichi's previous tactical efforts, Phantom Brave strives to be different and innovative, and the company's really outdone itself this time. Story wise there aren't too many surprises here, but it's solid and entertaining stuff with fun characters, balancing levity, and drama with aplomb. Naturally, mysterious and dark powers threaten Ivoire, providing an epic quest to save humanity set against Marona and Ash's own personal dilemmas. This connection to the dead scares the locals who call her 'The Possessed,' and rarely give her any work. Unlike most Chromas, however, Marona possesses the power to summon phantoms and is always accompanied by Ash, her dead parents' former accomplice. Marona is a Chroma, a magical mercenary of sorts in the archipelago world of Ivoire. arm, NIS America, Phantom Brave takes some steps in a new direction, is even more hardcore than the previous titles, and remains a deep and satisfying tactical epic.

The first title published by the company's new U.S. Nippon Ichi, makers of the critically acclaimed Disgaea and La Pucelle: Tactics, returns with another new tactics game, Phantom Brave.

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