Brandish VT (PC-98)

Brandish VT (the “VT” officially stands for Victim’s Tower) is Nihon Falcom’s fourth and final PC-98 entry in the dungeon-crawler series. It shipped in Japan on 4 October 1996 for the PC-9801/9821 family, in two packages: an HD-install-only CD-ROM and an 8 × 3.5-inch floppy set. Built on the same 256-colour “Renewal” engine but rendered in a new isometric view, VT drops the old Ares-and-Dela cast and instead follows five separate protagonists, each tackling a slice of the gigantic, multi-layered Victim’s Tower. Players still steer the hero entirely with the mouse—click to walk, turn, block, cast or swing—yet the sequel adds auto-map, route-memo and even a quick‐path auto-move that fans praised as the series’ smoothest quality-of-life pass. Falcom bundled a fresh Falcom Sound Team J.D.K. score on the disc (FM/MIDI or streamed CD-DA) and tightened combat with faster weapon draw and smarter enemy path-finding. The Windows-95 port that followed in 1998 was renamed Brandish 4: Tower of the Sleeping God, but the PC-98 original remains the least-tweaked, mouse-driven version.