For this week's Demo Play Thursday i played the PlayStation 4 version of Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero.
Unfortunately my main audio recording stopped working so in this video i'm using my backup, but my MiniDisc ran out of space during the goodbyes so that's why the audio is odd this week.
I wasn't familiar with the Phantom Brave series but i could tell from the art that it was from the developers behind the Disgaea games. i've got a couple of them and played several others so i was looking forward to playing Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero. the PSN store page for this game reveals that the save from this demo will carry over to the main game. the demo itself didn't mention this at all during the hour i spent with it. at least there was a link to the PSN Store page to pre-order the game.
This demo felt like it was the actual start of the game. some demos will be bespoke and have some changes to avoid spoilers, but not this demo for Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero. this makes me a little concerned for the retail release as i encountered some small technical issues. the biggest of which being when my character stopped walking.
Other than that, the hour i played went smoothly. i appreciated that the game's designers brought in the camera closer to the action. this made the characters look real good. there is a downside to this and it's that it was clear the none of the characters in this game had moving mouths.
i thought the game did a great job of not only introducing the world and the main characters in Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero, but it also had a way for the main character to be underpowered, even tho Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero isn't the first game in the series.
