Bleach: The 3rd Phantom

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Bleach The 3rd Phantom

Developer(s)	Sega
Publisher(s)	Sega
Platform(s)	Nintendo DS
Release date	^JP June 26, 2008^[1]
Genre(s)	Tactical role-playing game
Mode(s)	Single player
Input methods	D-Pad, buttons, touch screen

Bleach The 3rd Phantom (ブリーチ　ザ・サード・ファントム, Burīchi Za Sādo Fantomu^?) is an upcoming Tactical Role-Playing Game for Nintendo DS based on the popular manga written by Tite Kubo. It will be released in june 2008 and be published by Sega.^[2]

1 Storyline
2 Gameplay
3 Characters
4 Music
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Storyline

This game will feature a new storyline in the Bleach continuity written for this game by Tite Kubo himself.^[3] Two shinigami, Matsuri Kudo and her twin brother Fujimaru, travel through time to the present day. In the living world, they will meet Ichigo Kurosaki and learn about the true intentions of their 5th Division Vice Captain Sōsuke Aizen.

[edit] Gameplay

Unlike the two first Bleach DS games, The 3rd Phantom is not a fighting game, but a turn-based tactic game. Two teams fight each others on an isometrically viewed battlefield in a style similar to the Final Fantasy Tactics and Fire Emblem games. When a character attacks an opponent, the screen switches to a side view, similar to the Bleach DS fighting games. If two teammates are near the same opponent, they can perform a tag team move more powerful than the basic ones. Once the player has won the battle, his characters will earn experience points which will increase their stats and unlock new abilities.^[4]

[edit] Characters

This game will feature around 180 characters. Most of the cast from Bleach DS 2nd: Kokui Hirameku Requiem will return and the newcomers will include Shinigami Retsu Unohana, Yumichika Ayasegawa, Kaien Shiba, Jidanbō and Tetsuzaemon Iba, Vizard Shinji Hirako and Hiyori Sarugaki, and Arrancar Ulquiorra Schiffer, Grimmjow Jeagerjaques and Yammy, as well as the Números. Kusaka Sōjirō the antagonist of the movie Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion will be featured in the game.^[5]

During their journey, the Kudo siblings will also meet younger versions of Rukia Kuchiki, Renji Abarai, Toshiro Hitsugaya, Rangiku Matsumoto, Momo Hinamori, Gin Ichimaru, Soifon and Kenpachi Zaraki although whether they are playable is unknown.^[6]

Characters created for this game, aside from Matsuri and Fujimaru Kudo, include former 5th Division Captain Seigen Suzunami who raised the Kudo twins, his sister Konoka and a girl in the living world named Shiyo.

[edit] Music

The theme song of the game will be "Remaining Wind" (残り風, Nokori kaze^?) by Ikimono-gakari. The band also performed the Bleach anime seventh ending song.^[7]