Brandish (video game)
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SNES cover art by Nobuteru Yūki
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| Developer(s) |
Nihon Falcom Mantra (DOS) NEC (PC Engine CD-ROM²) Koei (SNES) |
| Publisher(s) | Nihon Falcom (PC-9801, FM Towns, PSP) Mantra (DOS) NEC (PC Engine CD-ROM²) Koei (SNES) XSEED Games (PSP) |
| Director(s) | Yoshio Kiya |
| Producer(s) | Masayuki Kato |
| Programmer(s) | Yukio Takahashi |
| Artist(s) |
Isutoshi Tsuyoshi Matsumuro Hidekazu Suzuki |
| Composer(s) | Falcom Sound Team JDK Tenmon Mieko Ishikawa |
| Series | Brandish |
| Platform(s) | PC-9801, MS-DOS, FM Towns, SNES, PC Engine (Brandish) PlayStation Portable (Brandish: The Dark Revenant) |
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NEC PC-9801, FM Towns
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| Genre(s) | Action role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
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| Publication | Score | |||
| PSP | SNES | TurboGrafx-16 | PS Vita | |
| Destructoid | 8 / 10 | 8 / 10 | ||
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| Famitsu | 27 / 40 | |||
| Gamer.nl | 8.5 / 10 | |||
| Gaming Age | B+ | B+ | ||
| Hardcore Gamer | 4.5 / 5 | 4.5 / 5 | ||
| HonestGamers | 8 / 10 | |||
| Push Square | 7 / 10 | |||
| RPGFan | 75% | 79% | ||
| RPG Site | 7 / 10 | 7 / 10 | ||
| VG&CE | 7 / 10 | |||
| Aggregate scores | ||||
| GameRankings | 79% | 68% | ||
| Metacritic | 81% | |||
Brandish (ブランディッシュ?) is an action role-playing video game by Nihon Falcom. Originally released in 1991 for the NEC PC-9801 and FM Towns, it was later ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) and PC Engine CD-ROM² (TurboGrafx-CD) in 1994–1995, including an expanded re-release titled Brandish Renewal. The SNES version was published by Koei in Japan in 1994 and in North America in 1995.
A complete remake of the original Brandish for the PlayStation Portable (PSP), featuring 3D graphics and titled Brandish: The Dark Revenant (ブランディッシュ～ダークレヴナント～?), was released by Nihon Falcom in Japan in 2009. XSEED Games released a localized version for North America on the PlayStation Store on January 13, 2015.
Brandish was the first title in Nihon Falcom's series of the same name. It was followed by three sequels originally released between 1993 and 1996.
Brandish is a top-down view dungeon crawler game. The original version of the game uses mouse controls from a real-time overhead view, where the player can move the warrior character Ares (known as Varik in the original English version) forward and backward, turn, strafe, and attack by clicking on boxes surrounding the player character. The player's objective is to escape from a labyrinth of over 40 floors filled various monsters, traps and puzzles.
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