Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia

Game Informer

Kimberley Wallace·Jun 30, 2020

Critic75/100

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Watching your team grow in strength and invading new areas makes you feel powerful, even if the game lacks variety and gets repetitive.

Nintendo Life

PJ O'Reilly·Jun 26, 2020

Critic70/100

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Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia takes the exact same core gameplay of its 1998 predecessor and transports it into a brand new storyline whilst giving the whole thing a modern lick of paint in the process. The story, although an improvement on the original game, is still pretty bland stuff for the most part and battles are certainly where this one finds its main groove. Those fights may be a little on the slow side and are inherently repetitive affairs, but they're still rather enjoyable nonetheless and give you a reasonable amount of choice in how you take on your enemies and evolve and upgrade your troops. There's a ton of content here and, in the end, the whole thing feels like a pretty successful celebration of what made the first game a cult classic in the first place. It's not going to be to everyone's tastes, however, and if you like your strategy action to be a little more intense, you might want to stick with something like Wargroove or Fire Emblem: Three Houses instead.