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Brandish: The Dark Revenant |OT| - Pit Shenanigans
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You mean the one on YouTube which is fake?
Well, if it's any consolation, you'll be seeing where that subtitle comes from soon enough.
I imagine it wouldn't be as tough as all that, but again... I don't really know! Definitely something to look into, though.
As noted, that's a fake video. AVGN has never tackled a Brandish game.
You should check out the real AVGN's videos sometime, though! James Rolfe (the actual guy behind AVGN) is a really interesting dude with a real talent for filmography, and while his AVGN videos can occasionally be a little overly low-brow, and occasionally bash on games I like (I will defend Castlevania II to the end!), I still find them more amusing than not, and always look forward to new ones popping up on his site.
-Tom
Tizoc
Member
Thanks for the feedback.
Gonna cheat today and
Does the game have an NG+ where I can restart with all my stats and items or some such? Even if there isn't one, I've gotten ideas on what I can do in a 2nd playthrough.
For that matter I have a question about
EDIT: To add this is the 2nd if not 3rd Falcom game I've played in the past 2-3 years where it made me feel like a badass. First was Ys OiF, now this one, Ares just surviving through this whole ordeal is just awesome.
Gonna cheat today and
use a map to bypass Dark Zone, sorry but if I can't see ish I ain't gonna waste much time there
Does the game have an NG+ where I can restart with all my stats and items or some such? Even if there isn't one, I've gotten ideas on what I can do in a 2nd playthrough.
For that matter I have a question about
Otherworldy Box #3, what's the best item to leave in the box? I left some gold in there, but what else would've worked?
EDIT: To add this is the 2nd if not 3rd Falcom game I've played in the past 2-3 years where it made me feel like a badass. First was Ys OiF, now this one, Ares just surviving through this whole ordeal is just awesome.
Legend of Grimlock is probably closest at least of contemporary games. Party based and no shops, but it is focused around real time combat, grid based movement/dungeon crawling, and a heavy focus on puzzle solving.
Tizoc
Member
Grimrock you mean
I have Legend of Grimrock, but I am not the biggest fan of FP view, is Grimrock 2 a bigger improvement?
Awww, but that spoils the fun! Dark Zone 2 is awesome!
No New Game+, though beating the game does unlock Dela Mode, which is an extra 10 floors of extra-brutal challenges where you play as Dela.
You mean the treasure chest you got it from?
Literally any item would work in there -- as long as you put SOMETHING in there, the way back will resurface.
-Tom
Tizoc
Member
Odd
I placed one of the expendable keys I got from the very beginning of the game in there but the platform didn't surface...
Lumpy Onion
Member
"If it is death you seek, you shall find it herein". Now that part was so awesome once I figured out what to do.
And that piece of music rocked! I've heard it on my various falcom arrangement albums but never knew it was from Brandish.
timing those jumps by watching the headless' punches was intense
Hmmm... I might be wrong, then! I guess the clue does say it has to be something worthwhile.
I think I placed a ring in there or something -- maybe it considers a ring to be more valuable than a key, even though rings are utterly worthless once you know the spells associated with them!
-Tom
Buying armor isn't a bad idea at all. And expendables aren't strictly needed -- rather than dropping iron balls, for example, you can try dropping anything (potions, rings, whatever), and if you get a message that says "You can't drop it here," that means there's a pit trap in that spot.
Magic spells are a useful thing to spend your money on, though -- but not ALL magic spells. Lightning is kind of useless (except in Dela Mode), and I've never once used Quake or Timestop, but Fire is essential, Ice is fairly useful, Heal is pretty much the "win" button, Warp is incredibly convenient, and Barrier and Toughen are super-useful toward the end of the game.
You'll have enough money to buy all of those by the time you really need them, however, even if you do buy armor. And some money left over for iron balls to make life a little easier in the Dark Zone, too!
-Tom
Augemitbutter
Member
yea, future Brandish should allow you to port between floors once you have the warp spell. makes backtracking easier.
Remember, the Warp spell only lets you warp to spots you've already uncovered on the map, so it doesn't let you skip sections you haven't already completed. It's used solely as a shortcut, or to warp yourself to areas that are one square away but otherwise inaccessible.
As for the casino,
there's one in Dark Zone 2, easily accessible from the Fortress entrance (just make sure you jump over the hole!), and you may be surprised to learn there's also one in Ruins B2 -- it's accessible within 5 minutes of starting the game if you know how to get to it!
-Tom
We'll have an update soon-ish (though probably not before a couple other announcements). Sorry for the continued delay -- I think we'd forgotten how time-consuming EU paperwork can be.
-Tom
Great to hear, hopefully we'll be dungeon crawling soon
I believe Grimrock 2 generally is considered such (haven't gotten that far), certainly you have more colorful environments immediately and likely more variety in general there. I guess Brandish followed a similar trajectory in its own series actually, though it does seem as if Brandish gets more varied than the first Grimrock did!Grimrock you mean
I have Legend of Grimrock, but I am not the biggest fan of FP view, is Grimrock 2 a bigger improvement?
Lumpy Onion
Member
The puzzle on Tower level 9 was so good.
Damn good one, that was.
I can't wait to leave the tower though and see what's next.
once I realized I was literally having to spell out 3 and 5 I had this feeling of satisfaction I rarely get in games. I actually drew out the 2 sides on paper and noticed they could create those 2 numbers. It took 15 mins to get there but I had a real "eureka!" moment.
I can't wait to leave the tower though and see what's next.
Just reached Ruins 9, and I like what Ive played through so far. I can remember being sold on this game with the first trailer Falcom released for it because it showed off many of the traps in the game. I thought, This is definitely a game with fun level design," and it has been so far with almost every level bringing something new to keep my interest.
I am one of those people who thinks XSEED should be releasing Falcom's back catalog especially the games on JP only computers. You potentially have access to enough games to release until 2020 or so. Securing emulation materials, like Dragoon En Regalia said, and also extracting/inserting text & debug would be the toughest parts about such releases. Fortunately, it looks as though most of Falcom's old Japanese PC games are on the PC-98, and I would think you could secure the use of an emulator as well. If XSEED does reach a point where they're looking to publish Falcom's pre-Windows computer game catalog, you might want to search for some of these resources for your programmer to look at to see if it's possible to do the text extraction/reinsertion and debug programming in-house (upon evaluation and translation of said documents of course):
http://euc.jp/articles/pc9800.en.html#ref
I don't know exactly if these would allow someone to become familiar with the system, but I think it's worth looking into.
I don't think there are any special legal issues or anything -- you just have to license the game from the rights-holder, and that's it. The problem is finding people capable of porting those games! Though Project EGG seems to have that covered pretty nicely in Japan -- that's a pay service that lets you download and play old PC-XX, MSX, MSX2, etc. games on Windows. Most of Falcom's back catalog can be found on Project EGG, in fact, and I've suggested previously that we look into bringing a few of them to the west if we can. So far, I've had no luck -- but I'm a very persistent person, so who knows? Maybe in the future, you guys will get to play some OLD old stuff through us.
-Tom
I am one of those people who thinks XSEED should be releasing Falcom's back catalog especially the games on JP only computers. You potentially have access to enough games to release until 2020 or so. Securing emulation materials, like Dragoon En Regalia said, and also extracting/inserting text & debug would be the toughest parts about such releases. Fortunately, it looks as though most of Falcom's old Japanese PC games are on the PC-98, and I would think you could secure the use of an emulator as well. If XSEED does reach a point where they're looking to publish Falcom's pre-Windows computer game catalog, you might want to search for some of these resources for your programmer to look at to see if it's possible to do the text extraction/reinsertion and debug programming in-house (upon evaluation and translation of said documents of course):
http://euc.jp/articles/pc9800.en.html#ref
I don't know exactly if these would allow someone to become familiar with the system, but I think it's worth looking into.
Lostconfused
Member
Yes and usually its a really nice set of treasure inside them.
Well because extremely strict timing is what the game has been about for the last 6 stages or so. It's not even hard if you aren't trying to open all of the chests.
Lostconfused
Member
Unlock the door, move right and fall in the pit, open the door, move right fall in the pit, walk through the door.
Omit any of the pit falling steps if you can do without them. Pretty much the entire stage is designed that if you think you can't make it you are just supposed to walk away from the boulder until you fall into the pit and just start over again.
Tizoc
Member
Decided to replay Ares mode again and I just
Say how hard would it be to port a PSP game to work on PC? Brandish's style has an old school PC game aesthetic to it that'd make it appreciated on platforms like Steam.
While a keyboard can work though feel wonky, I'd love to double dip on this if it ever got a PC release.
beat Dinque on my first try but that's mainly to me having an early Sabre lol
Say how hard would it be to port a PSP game to work on PC? Brandish's style has an old school PC game aesthetic to it that'd make it appreciated on platforms like Steam.
While a keyboard can work though feel wonky, I'd love to double dip on this if it ever got a PC release.
We've thought the same thing, but as of yet don't have any means to make this happen. We're always keeping our eyes open for opportunities, though!
There have been quite a few reviews at this point! All fairly positive, too, which is nice to see.
Can't say anything until we send out an official announcement, and we're not going to be able to do that until we have a definite release date. And as I've mentioned a few times, EU paperwork makes being "definite" about things really hard.
Shouldn't be too much longer, though, hopefully. Sorry again for the wait!
-Tom
We've thought the same thing, but as of yet don't have any means to make this happen. We're always keeping our eyes open for opportunities, though!
There have been quite a few reviews at this point! All fairly positive, too, which is nice to see.
Can't say anything until we send out an official announcement, and we're not going to be able to do that until we have a definite release date. And as I've mentioned a few times, EU paperwork makes being "definite" about things really hard.
Shouldn't be too much longer, though, hopefully. Sorry again for the wait!
-Tom
Hey, thanks for the reply, I appreciate it
Augemitbutter
Member
Tizoc
Member
Someone make a Brandish reviews thread
The fact this game hasn't gotten much awareness is sadenning and a little exposure never hurts.
Brandish can appeal to PC gamers mainly due to it having that old school dungeon crawler feel as well as its interesting exploration and movement mechanic.
The fact this game hasn't gotten much awareness is sadenning and a little exposure never hurts.
Gunhound EX was on PSP and got ported to PC/Steam, maybe consult with Playism Games on how that was done?
Brandish can appeal to PC gamers mainly due to it having that old school dungeon crawler feel as well as its interesting exploration and movement mechanic.
Augemitbutter
Member
there is a review section in the op
afaik Gunhound was a PC game. the EX version was made for the PSP. it got a port for the PC later.
afaik Gunhound was a PC game. the EX version was made for the PSP. it got a port for the PC later.
Tizoc
Member
there is a review section in the op
afaik Gunhound was a PC game. the EX version was made for the PSP. it got a port for the PC later.
Really? So...why does Gunhound look so pixelated lol.
Actually FF3 on Steam is based on the NDS/PSP ver., so maybe using Unity can help?
Tizoc
Member
So where can I look up official artwork for the game or in-game artwork?
Is there also any interviews with the team working on the game on how they planned stuff out and to read up on how there are people in the
Is there also any interviews with the team working on the game on how they planned stuff out and to read up on how there are people in the
tower when it seems as Ares is the first to access it in years. How did those people end up being in there like the 2 lovers in Tower F3
LordSparda
Member
Finally finished Ares Mode, 100% on all the maps. It's an amazing game for sure, haven't really had a good head-scratching dungeon crawler for a long time. Difficulty seems a bit uneven though... thought
was a lot harder and more annoying than the final dungeon, which is a bit weird.
Let me know if anyone needs has problems with the maps, I can help while its still fresh in my mind
Dark Zone 1 and 2
Let me know if anyone needs has problems with the maps, I can help while its still fresh in my mind
LordSparda
Member
Your spoiler tag is missing (even though I'm not sure its actually a spoiler or not, to be honest). Yeah, I used up some 200+ iron balls in that zone, bloody hell. One accidental sidestep and you end up in the floor below, with all the monsters regenerated. Luckily on the 100% map reward for the floor is 99 iron balls, lol.
The irony is that I didn't really find
all that difficult. Hell, the bloody
is far harder.
The irony is that I didn't really find
the fortress and the Dragon and King bosses
quad headless thing
Lostconfused
Member
Eh I found those two maps to be better than the last dungeon. The last dungeon was just tedious and annoying, especially with a floor that is just 3x3 rooms on a 30x30 grid. It's like a study in how to make the dullest level possible in the game.
I liked that floor.
100%ing each individual floor gets you
an extra treasure -- and usually a good one -- by way of smashing the monument at the end of the floor with a sledgehammer (which can't be done until the floor's been 100%ed).
100%ing every floor in the game
doesn't do anything special, though the tougher an individual floor is to 100%, the better the reward for doing so will be, generally.
-Tom
Been playing the game for a bit. Reached the point where you meet the girl (she must be so cold, wearing so very little clothing in a moldy old dungeon like this).
I gotta say: the way the map doesn't mark doors until you go through them really pisses me off. It makes backtracking to find places you haven't been to unnecessarily frustrating. I don't understand this design decision, and it almost makes me want to stop playing.
I gotta say: the way the map doesn't mark doors until you go through them really pisses me off. It makes backtracking to find places you haven't been to unnecessarily frustrating. I don't understand this design decision, and it almost makes me want to stop playing.
Lostconfused
Member
You can draw on the map your self. I suggest you start doing that as it will probably save you time if you try to backtrack or 100% the map.
YianGaruga
Banned
Yeah that was my only complaint with the automapping. I just got used to editing the map myself whenever I got to a locked door.
That sounds annoying. Is there a way to bring up the map with a single button press instead of pressing Start and selecting Map from the menu?
Tizoc
Member
As annoying as that was, I just made a mental note to attempt to enter any door I can to mark it.
Otherwise I just mark it via the map.
THi is a game that you can take your time to complete, so even a 15 min. playthrough can be beneficial if it is to increase the map completion %.