New Brandish Game in the Works

Falcom, the Japanese developer behind the Ys series, has announced that a new title in the Brandish series is in the works.

Dubbed Brandish: The Dark Revenant, the game is due out in Japan on March 19th 2009. Like its predecessors, the game will be a fantasy dungeon crawler, filled with traps and danger and all the other nasty stuff you associate with dungeon crawlers. Ares and Dela, characters from the first three games, will be playable.

Beyond that, details are sketchy. The game has only been confirmed for the Japanese market and, as such, has only been announced in Japanese. It's been speculated by the Western Falcom faithful that the game will, in fact, be a remake of the original. It's unclear whether the 'Turn the World' feature, which sees the level spin around rather than your character, will make a return.

The Brandish series has not been given much air in the West, with only the first title seeing release outside Japan on the SNES and PC Engine.

^{Sources:
Ancient Land of Ys
Falcom.co.jp}