Bleach: The 3rd Phantom Haunts DS Owners This Fall

By Spencer . April 7, 2009 . 11:30am

Like strategy RPGs? Like Bleach (the manga and not NaClO)? Then Bleach: The 3rd Phantom is the game for you. As we discovered earlier, Sega is localizing the text heavy game for North America and preparing it for a release this fall.

Bleach: The 3rd Phantom is a spin-off story that covers events before the manga starting with the Soul Reaper twins Fujimaru Kudo and his sister Matsuri Kudo. To prevent the plot from being a shoddy fanfic Tite Kubo, the creator Bleach supervised the story. Ichigo, Rukia, and Arturo, an Arrancar created specifically for Bleach: Shattered Blade, are some of the characters you encounter. Over fifty of them are playable.

Seems like Sega USA will continue to publish Bleach games. After Bleach: The 3rd Phantom there is a Treasure developed Wii fighting game and a Nintendo DS action game to look forward to.

TAGS: Bleach, Bleach: The 3rd Phantom, Nintendo DS, Sega

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ryne11

Nerd Rant

The story would have been good if Kubo hadn't done the "Turn Back The Pendulum" flashback Arc. I mean, I thought Kubo did the Story for this game. "Turn Back The Pendulum" not only de-canonizes this games story, but makes it impossible to have occurred.

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dickrammer

Turn Back is cannon genius! 3rd Phatom is not

ryne11

I don't disagree

Joanna

I'm not one to buy anime inspired games (because I usually get burned *looks at the Inu-yasha DS game*), but I can't resist an SRPG and with Bleach characters, so I'll give this a chance, even though I know most anime/movie inspired games suck :(