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Bleach: The 3rd Phantom

In this exclusive storyline, exciting details are revealed about the BLEACH universe from before the start of the anime series. The story highlights the close partnership between two fraternal twin Soul…

50 26 June 2008

Bleach: The 3rd Phantom is a role-playing (rpg), released 26 June 2008 on Nintendo DS.

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What Bleach: The 3rd Phantom is

Bleach: The 3rd Phantom was released in 2008. It was published by Sega Corporation. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In this exclusive storyline, exciting details are revealed about the BLEACH universe from before the start of the anime series. The story highlights the close partnership between two fraternal twin Soul Reapers, Matsuri Kudo and her brother Fujimaru. In fierce battles. For the first time, players create and command their own team of eight Soul Reapers. In team-based battles, players decide where to place their team on the campaign map and also how to customize their character's powers with the experience points they received. With exciting revelations and a lot more choice, strategy and cooperative gameplay, BLEACH: The 3rd Phantom will thrill fans and newcomers to the series.
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How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Bleach series

Bleach: The 3rd Phantom is the 16th of 32 entries we hold in the Bleach series. The next entry was Bleach: Soul Carnival in 2008. Its critic score of 50 is 17 points below the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is Bleach: The Blade of Fate at 83.

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How it was received

Bleach: The 3rd Phantom holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 5% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Bleach: The 3rd Phantom launched on 26 June 2008, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Persona 4, Battlefield: Bad Company and Secret Agent Clank. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Persona 4, Battlefield: Bad Company, Secret Agent Clank.

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When did Bleach: The 3rd Phantom come out?
Bleach: The 3rd Phantom was released on 26 June 2008 for Nintendo DS.

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