DLC includes collaboration characters from Yomawari: Night Alone, The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince
The official website for Nippon Ichi Software and NIS America‘s Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero, the sequel game to Nippon Ichi Software‘s Phantom Brave strategy game, revealed the new DLC characters on Tuesday, including collaboration characters from other Nippon Ichi titles.
The DLC characters include (Top row, left to right):
- The protagonist from Yomawari: Night Alone
- Mad Rat and Heart from Mad Rat Dead
(Second row, left to right)
- Scarlet
- Sprout
- Samayoi from Bar Stella Abyss
- The Princess from The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince
- Contractor Castile
- Walnut
The game will launch on January 30 in Japan, North America, and Europe for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Switch, with the Steam version coming later in spring 2025. The game will also have an Asian release in spring 2025.
Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero follows Marona, a young woman with the ability to communicate with phantoms. She is on a journey to save her friend Ash. The turn-based tactical RPG’s mechanics are known for its gridless distance-based movement system (as opposed to the grid-based movement in most other tactical RPGs), as well as its unique Confine mechanic. Marona can summon her phantom allies into battle as controllable units by Confining them to in-map objects, that then enhance their innate capabilities depending on the item they are Confined into. Confined units only last a variable number of turns, and Marona herself is weak, so players must strategize around their roster of phantom allies, the item placement and availability on a given map, and the time limit on each individual summoned phantom.
NIS America will release Phantom Brave: The Hermuda Triangle Remastered, the remaster of the first Phantom Brave game, on PS5 on November 7.
The original Phantom Brave game launched for PlayStation 2 in 2004, and it launched for PC via Steam in July 2016. The Prinny Presents NIS Classics Volume 1 collection launched for Switch in August 2021 and includes Phantom Brave: The Hermuda Triangle Remastered.
Sources: Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero’s official website, 4Gamer
