Brave Fencer Musashi (Square Millennium Collection)

The Brave Fencer Musashi Square Millennium Collection is the Japan-only PS1 oddity that turns casual collectors into completists overnight. Released by Squaresoft in 2000 during their Millennium Collection wave, this premium reissue of Brave Fencer Musashi pairs the cult action RPG with a Minku strap set, a Square original mini-pouch, and a ten-card Musashi postcard set, all sleeved in that unmistakable Square branded outer box.

If you remember Brave Fencer Musashi, you remember the chaos. The real-time hack and slash, the timed quests, the legend that the demo disc bundled with Final Fantasy VIII secretly sold this game harder than any of Square's marketing. Musashi was Square going weird in the best way, a sidescroller meets RPG with one of the catchiest soundtracks in the publisher's back catalog. We grew up on this. Some of us still hum the theme.

What makes this edition land is the personality of the bonuses. Most Square Millennium Collection sets played it serious. Musashi got the Minkus, the mini-pouch, the postcard art. It's the version that feels like Squaresoft having fun with their own catalog instead of cashing in on prestige.

This is a Japanese exclusive that never crossed the ocean. Sealed copies aren't getting any less scarce. For Brave Fencer Musashi fans, it's the centerpiece. For Squaresoft completists, it's a missing piece of the millennium-era picture. Your collection has been waiting for this one.