New Shining Blade Trailer

Believe it or not but Shining Blade is the new entry in the "Shining" Series! This series consists of various Strategy RPGs like Shining Force and Action RPGs like Shining Tears and Shining Wind as well as the animation TearsXWind.

»Additional Information:«

The Name of the games battle engine is "Concerto". It is a strategy active real time battle system said to be evolved from Sakura Wars "ARMS" (Active and Real-time Machine System) as well as Valkyria Cronicles BLiTZ (Battle of Live Tactical Zones) system.

The songstresses in your party are consideres as "special members". They are able to perform magic songs that can achieve various effects in battle, like blocking enemies from moving forward. Some of those songs can also be used to attack various enemies, but using those requires quite a lot of mana energy.

Shining Blade also has inter-character relationships. Depending on your selections during event scenes, movements and usage of group skills during battle, the characters' relationships will change

The well known artist Tony Taka returns to work on the games character design, for a examle please look at the pre-order CD down below.

The Story

Within the Dragonia Empire, a plan to revive the leader of the Dark Dragon by sapping spirit energy from the land starts to unfold. With giant dragons rampaging throughout the land and the world engulfed in chaos, all hope has turn to the retrieval of the mysterious “Shining Blade”. And thus, a soul blader is given the task to obtain the legendary blade and find Lorelei, the songtress who sings the “Song of Mana”

To make things even more delicious there are already pretty merchandise things out there that make this game hard to resist. Sakuya, the female heroine in her "Water Spirit" outfit for example.

Let's round things up with the opening animation!