Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero – Referring to SRPG (role -playing tactics), perhaps any of us will think of similar games like Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics and Disgaea.

These games have in common that the player will control the character on a grid -shaped map, with a tactical and challenging turn -based mechanism.

However, a game has appeared and followed another path: Phantom Brave. Is an interesting release of the developer Disgaea Because it completely eliminates the net and offers players a series of unique custom options.

So, please read with MarkGame to see if this logic is worthy of expectations.

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The plot is bold “Nippon Ichi”

If you have played the game of “Nippon Ichi”(Nis America's parent company – NV), such as the line Disgaeaor the previous version Phantom Braveyou will find a difficult feature to ignore: a gentle, happy story, full of funny moments and full of laughter but hidden inside is a relatively serious topic and many meaningful messages.

Based on the above criteria Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero Exactly a Nippon Ichi game … to the teeth, when the game converges all the things that made many gamers love this long -standing Japanese game company.

Our story also comes from the same world as the first version, Ivoire and following Marona, who is also the main character of the first game. Marona is a girl who has the ability to see Phantom, the remaining souls of the dead, and she uses this ability to solve the problems she encountered.

Six months after the end of Phantom BraveMarona and Ash's guy were attacked by Shipwreck Fleet, a pirate fleet (?) Store Marona's ability and split Ash with Marona.

Later, Marona met another girl named Apricot, who was looking for his father, the captain of the Argento pirate team, and the two started their interesting adventure.

In general, the plot of Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero There is a slow start, but once “in the reel”, the journey to find Ash and the Argento pirate team of two young girls is quite “rolled”. Each chapter has a fairly fixed “thread”, Marona and Apricot and their pirate teams to a distant island, and find out what is happening to the islanders, then fight to solve the core of the problem.

In meetings with residents of these islands, the “meaningful message” of the game was revealed. “The dead are not telling stories” is a fairly famous saying of the pirate world, implying that all the stories of them, what they did in their lives, the deep secrets will be “buried” into the grave.

Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero Exactly a Nippon Ichi game … to the teeth, when the game converges all the things that make many gamers love this long -standing Japanese game company

However, our cute Marona is a “boss” to talk to the dead, and the discovery of why they die, as well as solve their misunderstandings when they are alive as the main topic when Marona “appeared” – and also the part that the writer found the most attractive when playing Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero.

By the second half of the game, the speed of the story line will be pushed up faster and more climax, as well as there will be a few “small” surprises for players.

General achievement, Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero It is a gentle, emotional breeze for SRPG fans to seek a relaxation and entertainment after stressful working hours, with cute and likable characters, but there is still no shortage of meaningful messages after each game screen.

The unique and strange mechanism

Of course, like other Nippon Ichi games, the most impressive will still be a strange, extremely addictive fighting mechanism.

Like the first game, you will control Marona on the map, but instead of a network of moving cells like Disgaea (or any other SRPG game), you will be moved freely in a certain range (similar to the line Hyperdimensional Neptunia).

The specific feature is that you can “call the soul” of the Phantom through the confine mechanism, that is, order Phantom … haunting something on the battlefield like … a tree, a rock, anything that can be “haunted”.

It should be noted that the object selected to haunt will affect the character's index, such as the stone that will increase but reduce the speed, as well as the objects that can be linked together to create some special effect.

Moreover, each Phantom will only “haunted” a certain amount of time before disappearing, and will not be able to be re -stretched until the next screen, so players need to be very careful when deploying the squad, and promote the training of a large number of Phantom, not focus on a few small characters.

Sometimes, the Phantom will … steal the item to be a weapon, it may be stone, coconut tree, cactus, a fish (?), A motorbike (??), and countless other strange objects, making the game just diverse and no less humorous.

Not only that, two additional mechanisms are also added. The first is “Confire”, when instead of haunting the inanimate things, Marona directed Phantom to haunted cannons and machines, thereby using the great cannon.

The remaining skill is “confriend”, when Marona can … fit with Phantom to strengthen strength and immediately have … 5 continuous fights, can “weed” a series of enemies. Each crime requires to be able to confriend to build Bond with that Phantom by using a lot in battle and talking to that Phantom after each game screen, so it is impossible to confriend indiscriminately and will spend quite time to “plow” a character.

Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero There is a unique, attractive and depth combat mechanism with the mechanism class, extremely suitable for gamers who want to research and test.

There are many other mechanisms (not joking, after the writer has played a few hours already but still … new instructions), along with countless weapons with unique skills, accompanied by many different occupations for the Phantom (will be “unlocked” when you upgrade the basis), creating a “unprecedented” freedom of “unprecedented” freedom for the “unprecedented” freedom Phantom Brave: The Lost Heroyou can completely customize the game to suit you.

Want to become the One Punch Man character? Easy, putting all ATK into Proficot then for Marona Confriend, we will have a “weeding” murderer of the entire game. Want to play the tactics of “human sea”? Keep stuffing Phantom all over the map and “steamed” the enemy with the power of 10 cactus trees!

Even with some of the skills of the player, the player can finish the enemy by shooting them … out of the map, spoiled for players to test.

In addition to the plot screen with fixed map, Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero There are randomly created dungeons through the “Dungeon Creator” mechanism, along with a maximum level of 9999, helping players who are too “addicted” can have … infinite content to “immersed” in the game.

In short, Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero There is a unique, attractive and depth combat mechanism with the mechanism class, extremely suitable for gamers who want to research, test, explore and explore different interesting plays, as well as anyone who is passionate about tactics – role -playing (SRPG).

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The graphics are slightly “remote”

The writer does not appreciate the graphic quality of Phantom Brave: The Lost Heroespecially the conversion from “Sprite” 2D to 3D form. The first is that the writer is familiar with playing with high quality sprite from the Nippon Ichi house, the second is the ratio of the Chibi character model is somewhat … unbalanced, with the head is super big and hands … like two noodles.

The lines on the maps of the game screen feel quite low quality, faded and broken. Some of the fighting scenes seem “very eye -catching” but it looks boring and … there is no choice to turn off the scene. It is not to mention the variety of plays is quite low, looking back and forth in coconut trees for a few hours can make many gamers feel dissatisfied.

At least the character drawings are still sharp and very cute.

The diversity of the game screen is quite low, looking back and forth in coconut trees for a few hours can make many gamers feel dissatisfied with

Many errors

Some of the issues that the writer encountered when playing, both at Steam Deck and on the normal PC, it is the frame lag/second phenomenon (FPS) and “freezing” the game is quite difficult to understand. Sometimes the FPS drops to only 10-20, even the game is always the game and takes about 20 seconds to recover the same, and it seems that some players still have the phenomenon of “crash” (crash) of the game suddenly!

The game has quite a lot of relatively funny errors, for example, when monsters are slashed by special skills, they will sometimes … floating in the air for a while, then disappear, or sometimes the attack will be … stuck in a certain frame, leading to unnecessary unpleasant experiences, especially with a game that the player will have to spend hours “plow” as “plowing hoe” as like hoe hoe “like hoe hoe” like hoe hoe “as like hoe hoe” as like hoe hoe “like hoe hoe” like hoe hoe “as like hoe hoe” like hoe hoe “as like hoe hoe” like hoe ho ho ho ho “as like hoe ho ho ho ho” Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero.

Another … other humorous minus point is who the enemy does not seem to be very stable, sometimes the enemies will try to move to a location that has a road block, they will stop in place and … abandon a difficult way, or sometimes the enemy will use very weak skills, although it can completely use more powerful skills to finish Phantom of the player.

Some of the issues that the writer encountered when playing, both at Steam Deck and on the normal PC, it is the frame lagging phenomenon (FPS) and “frozen” quite confusing game