The “ Blade Arcus from Shining EX Tony’s Premium Fan Box” limited edition comes with a Tony Taka-illustrated special box, “ Shining Heroine Works” art book, Shining Ark character song CD, Shining Blade soundtrack CD, and “ Shining Beach Heroines” swimsuit calendar.Īs for it coming west, SEGA probably wants to see how Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax does later next month. All first print copies come with the character Sonia from Shining Resonance. In Japan the game will get two releases, a standard that will cost 6,990 yen ($56 USD) and a limited edition costing 9,990 yen ($80 USD). SEGA will add ‘EX’ to the end of the game because the game will have loads of extras, including new playable characters. SEGA Japan has announced that they are porting the 2D arcade fighting spin-off Blade Arcus from Shining to the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 via Famitsu. If you fall in love with it, thankfully you’ll always have those and the new weekly tournament event to fall back on.ġ Comment SEGA bringing its Shining spin-off arcade game Blade Arcus from Shining EX to PS4 and PS3 The full game features a Story Mode, Training Mode, and local Versus Mode in addition to the Online Mode the demo restricts you to. Hopefully those excited to try it before buying will be able to find some online opponents this week thanks to the demo’s release. Unfortunately, the game has potentially only sold a little over 2,000 copies if you go by the numbers SteamSpy suggests for it. It’s a 2D fighting game featuring characters from the Sega-published Shining Blade and Shining Hearts games. Hit the jump to check out preview pages of some of the artwork that will be in the book:Ĥ Comments Blade Arcus from Shining: Battle Arena demo now on SteamĪ Blade Arcus from Shining: Battle Arena demo has been released on Steam, allowing users to sample the game’s online multiplayer mode with 3 of the 16 characters.īlade Arcus from Shining: Battle Arena was released to Steam on July 28th, 2016 and is based on Blade Arcus from Shining 2.1 EX, the most recent arcade version. The details of the book also brag that about 30 of the character designs in the book got made into figurines. The book will set you back 5,000 yen ($46), will have 100 pages and feature 80 illustrations. The book will come in A4 page format, will have a hardcover backing and clear slip on box. Tony Taka has even released a couple of Shining related art books as well, this will be more broad artwork he has done in the past.ĪmiAmi will be selling the “Tony’s ART works from Origin” book which is set to feature various character designs from his career including magazine covers and vocaloids he has designed, including a long form interview looking at his history these past 20 years. So much so that there is a ton of Shining series merch being sold, more so than the actual games. While the Shining series has had trouble selling copies of their games, it seems that Japan responded positively to Tony Taka’s character designs. Regardless of what you think of Tony Takas art since taking over the Shining franchise’s art duties all the way back in 2004, he seems to have acquired a massive following in Japan.
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