With less than two days to go until the launch of Shining Tears in Japan, Sega have updated their Shining Tears site to include far more pictures & screenshots for most of the characters – particularly nice is the addition of more full front and back illustrations for cosplayers to work from:

Blanc Neige Artwork
Mao Artwork (no tail?! :()

The various Skills screenshots are also very nice – Razalus’ skills include moves like ‘Heavy Blow’ and ‘Iron Skin’ – certainly to be expected for this tough looking character! Blanc Neige’s skills include ‘Snow Veil’, ‘Ice Blaze’, ‘Freeze’, ‘Blizzard’, ‘Ice Wall’, ‘Ice Ring’ and more – no doubt she and Marki would get along well 😉 Volg, the wolfling, seems to be quite an agile (not to mention, spiky!) character, given the names of his skills: ‘Quick Step’, ‘Flying Claw’, ‘Gattling Punch’, ‘Death Moon Circle’, ‘Double Tackle’, ‘Drill Crusher’ and more. Finally, we can also see pictures of Mao (my favourite – hey, I’m a cat lover!) in action – unfortunately I can’t translate any of them names, but they appear to be mainly fire-based attacks. How purrrfect – fire spells are usually my favourites 😀

In addition, yet another limited edition Shining Tears item has been announced! Available through Chameleon Club, a new DVD slipcase featuring Maple the fairy will be given to those who purchase the game from said shop. It looks as though there’ll be a collectable for everyone buying the game, but where they buy it is the determining factor. It’s such a shame we’re unlikely to see similar promotional items here in the UK or elsewhere in the world 🙁 I’ll try to contact Sega Japan later today to see whether I can arrange any freebies as prizes for SFCers – wish me luck 😉 I found an auction today for a set of 10 ST phonecards – they wanted almost US$500 for the set! A little out of my range – any wealthy and generous site visitors want to treat me? 😉 *lol*

Even more excited about Shining Tears now? Why not pre-order from Lik-Sang and start enjoying the game in around a week? You’ll not only get to enjoy the game before it’s international releases, but also be supporting SFC as a small commission will be paid for each pre-order 🙂

In SFC news, I’ll be adding a lot of Shining Tears collectables to the site as well as launching this year’s Christmas Contest – watch this space!