There's 30 minutes I'll never get back...
posted by JCDenton (FREEDOM, NH) Oct 6, 2009
Member since Mar 2006
What were they thinking? In the same vein as Crystal Chronicles 2, Phantom Brave: We Meet Again decides to throw a DS title onto the Wii with no effort to improve it in the process. You would be wise to avoid it.
But if you'd like to know why, here we go: Phantom Brave is similar to Fire Emblem, except Fire Emblem is good. It's a turn-based strategic RPG where you equip and lead your characters into battle against strange creatures that want to kill you for some unknown reason. Try not to think about the story or the weird idea that this girl talks to dead people and makes them fight for her. In fact, throw logic right out the door, because the developers did.
Unfortunately, that's not the bad part. The graphics don't even look good by DS standards. Animations are terrible, sound might as well be absent, presentation is a bust... it's just a mess. Simply attacking your enemy requires way too many menus. Most of the stats in the game seem extraneous. You start to wonder if the blob of goo that's attacking you would die faster if you tried explaining your stats sheet to him rather than smacking him with your poorly-rendered sword.
This is a game that's trying to cash in on a series that has little merit to begin with. And essentially slapping your handheld game onto a console... there's just no excuse for that.
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