Brandish

Let me get this out of the way. This review is going to be biased. Biased by how awesome Brandish 2 is. A lot of people think Brandish is a disorienting piece of crap. I appreciate that, if people don't like a game that's totally okay with me. On the other hand, I love Brandish. So here's MY opinion.

I'd beaten Brandish. What else was I supposed to do with my afternoon? There were two things: act like an idiot or play a sequel to a game in Japanese. So I did the second one. And I was very pleased by the results. Now I'm gonna go into that crappy "graphics picture sound purple" thing that reviewers do.

The first Brandish suffered from problems of enemies looking like flying pickles or blue jello. Brandish 2 just looks at the first Brandish and blows its face off into space. Brandish 2's sprites are much more lush and a lot more well animated than the first Brandish (although tile-based animation is still stiff) and some of them even have more than 16 colors! No more cramming an entire set of enemies into one palette for Falcom! It's awesome all the way. The only real problem with the graphics is the lack of variety between floor tiles, walls, etc.

for a given area. This is remedied by having a lot of freaking areas. So yeah. In addition, all of these areas are really interesting-looking and have unique themes, so you're not gonna get bored of the boring brown dungeon of doom anytime soon.