Brandish

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Item Description

Falcom designed Brandish for Japanese home computers in 1991, and its strangest idea survived the move to the Super Nintendo intact: when you turn, the world turns with you. Ares always faces the top of the screen, and every step left or right swings the whole map around him. For the first few minutes it is disorienting. Soon it becomes the very thing that makes the game so claustrophobic, because you only ever really know what lies directly ahead.

Ares Toraernos is a wandering swordsman with a price on his head, and the sorceress Dela Delon has tracked him down to settle a score. Their confrontation is cut short when the ground gives way and drops them both into the ruins of Vittoria, an ancient kingdom swallowed by the earth long ago. Escape means climbing back toward the surface one floor at a time, and Dela keeps turning up along the way, a rival every bit as stranded as he is.

Underneath the rotating view is a demanding real-time dungeon crawler. Ares fights with swords, shields and magic, jumps across gaps, and gathers weapons, armor and treasure as he pushes deeper. The ruins are full of traps, secret switches and dead ends that test your sense of direction as much as your sword arm, and the shifting perspective means a trap you never saw coming is usually one you walked straight into. It is tough and methodical, and it rewards patience over haste.

Koei, better known for strategy series like Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Nobunaga's Ambition, brought this version to North America, and it was the only Brandish game on the Super Nintendo to make that trip. Falcom, the studio behind Ys, carried the series through several sequels in Japan and later remade the original as Brandish: The Dark Revenant, which gives this cartridge an unusual place in the series' history. Dark, mazelike and a little unforgiving, it is a fascinating cult RPG from two companies best known for very different games.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1991
Publisher
Koei
Developer
Nihon Falcom
Genre
RPG
Players
Single player
About the game

The game is an action RPG, a dungeon crawler with plenty of creatures to defeat and many weapons, armor, and other treasure to collect. You can also use magic spells. The camera rotates automatically according to your movements. You also have the ability to jump forwards.

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