Prinny Presents: NIS Classics Vol 1 (2021) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Prinny Presents: NIS Classics Vol 1

For the first time ever, both Phantom Brave and Soul Nomad & the World Eaters are coming to Nintendo Switch! New and old fans alike can experience two classic titles from the NIS vault of RPG hits, complete…

82 31 August 2021 ESRB T

What Prinny Presents: NIS Classics Vol 1 is

Prinny Presents: NIS Classics Vol 1 is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Nippon Ichi Software and released in 2021. It was published by NIS America. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Phantom Brave: The protagonist of Phantom Brave is a 13-year-old girl named Marona. Having lost both of her parents at a young age, Marona lives on Phantom Isle in the oceanic world of Ivoire with a phantom named Ash. While he was still alive, Ash worked alongside Jasmine and Haze (Marona's parents) as a Chroma, a sort of bounty hunter or adventurer for hire. On an assignment that brought the trio to the Isle of Evil, a fragment of a malevolent being known as Sulphur attacked the group, mortally wounding them. Using the last of his life energy, Haze attempted to revive the party after the battle; however, there was only enough life left in him to bring Ash back as a phantom. Haze and…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Prinny Presents: NIS Classics Vol 1 holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 8 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Prinny Presents: NIS Classics Vol 1 launched on 31 August 2021, within three weeks of Psychonauts 2, Deathloop, Kena: Bridge of Spirits and Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Psychonauts 2, Deathloop, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut.

Cheats and codes

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