A single year in the game is made of 24 seasons, with higher difficulty settings placing a limit on how many seasons may pass before the game will automatically end an easy game has no limit, a normal game is capped at 120 seasons or five years, and a hard game is capped at 60 seasons or two and a half years. All six nations perform an Organization Phase and an Attack Phase in sequence, with these combined actions being called a 'season' and marking the passage of time. The turn-based battles make up the Attack Phase. In the Organization Phase, the player decides where to move their troops and how to compose them, whether to send idle Rune Knights on automated quests for rare items, and which castles to attack. On the strategy end, the game has two main phases: Organization and Attack.

In the event one side's ruler Rune Knight is defeated in battle, all of that side's Rune Knights are forced to withdraw from that castle regardless of their condition. A defeated Rune Knight becomes wounded and must spend time and mana recovering, while defeated monsters are permanently dead. To win a battle and occupy/defend a castle, the player must either defeat all enemy Rune Knights and force them to retreat or overwhelm the enemy to the extent that they voluntarily withdraw to avoid further damage.

Rune Knights and their monsters confront enemy troops in turn-based battles, with the outcome deciding who controls a given castle. Both monsters and Rune Knights have hit points and mana pools, and become stronger by damaging enemy units and gaining experience with the use of various skills and spells. There are over 100 unique Rune Knights, and each nation has a single Rune Knight who is classified as the 'ruler'. Each troop consists of a number of monsters under the command of a human leader called a Rune Knight. The player assumes control of one of six different nations, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, and must use troops to attack and occupy enemy castles while defending their own. The player chooses one of six nations of the continent of Runersia and must guide it to conquer the others and unify the land using powerful Rune Knights and their summoned monsters.Īs in the previous game, gameplay in Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia is a mix of tactical, turn-based battles and grand strategy. It is a sequel to the 1998 PlayStation game Brigandine: The Legend of Forsena, and features the same core gameplay with a new setting. Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia is a tactical role-playing game for the Nintendo Switch developed by Matrix Software and published by Happinet.

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