Shining Blade PSP Game to be Released March 20123

We’ve just mentioned the announcement of the upcoming Shining Hearts TV Anime a couple of days ago, now we have another great news from the game maker of the series. After the long wait, finally SEGA has announced its latest work of the Shining series Shining Blade (シャイニング・ブレイド) to be released on March 15, 2012. Like the previous series Shining Hearts, Shining Blade will still be running on PSP and we fans are happy not to line up for the upcoming PS Vita this weekend. SEGA has already announced the price tag (around 7,000 JPY) and it’s available for pre-order online. For those who order the retail version, a fan disc (Sakuya is so cute…) will be included featuring collection of movie, songs, card game, art book (guess that’s what most of us eager for) and so forth. SEGA has already streamed the opening Animation of the game since last month. Pretty much the same style as the previous work while it should be considered as good for a PSP game of this quality.

As for the story and setting, Shining Blade appears to be a collection of previous famous characters from the Shining series. You can choose few among 20 characters to become partners joining you during the battle, and we are able to see lots of familiar faces in Shining Wind, Shining Tears and Shining Hearts. Luckily, as I mentioned in my previous review of Shining Hearts, we finally able to team up with characters like Hayane and Maxima who lack of appearance in Shining Hearts. And surprisingly (really?), I am more than happy to learn that Sakuya (who renamed as Maxima, the future version of Sakuya in Shining Hearts) will become one of the female protagonists of Shining Blade.

However, by simply giving a new identity and description of previous characters without even redraw won’t necessary create any attractiveness for newcomers. Luckily, we have a brand new battle system featuring 3D technology and bunch of other surprises. The effect of the battle scenes is quite good as you can see below.

The game has already in my must-play list since the mention early this year, will sure to bring up review after clear the game next year. Check out the opening below.

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