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With the Tokyo Games Show upon us this weekend, Sega have updated their Shining Tears site to include more information on the game’s characters and gameplay system – but most exciting of all, a preview video has been added to the download page!
You can watch the video here. It’s two and a half minutes long, and though the quality isn’t great, it certainly gives a good feel for the game.
I must say, watching this and seeing the recent screenshots for the PS2 Shining Force title, Shining Tears seems a lot more Shiny to me, in looks at least. But, we all know that looks are not the most important aspect of a game, so I’ll reserve judgement until I’ve played them 😉
The graphics in the video remind me very much of Shining Force III, quite cutesy and the settings look Shiny enough to me 🙂 Not yet sure about the battle system, obviously not Force-style, but not quite like anything we’ve seen in a Shining title before either. Looks like it could be quite fun 🙂
The music doesn’t remind me of anything previous in the Shining world, but it does seem fitting – I’m looking forward to hearing more when the game’s Theme Song is performed at TGS tomorrow (unless I’ve misunderstood the information ;))
Back to the Shining Tears site – character-wise, Xion and Ryuna’s pages have been updated to include some nice quality pictures which seem to be targetted at cosplayers!
Xion’s front and rear views
Ryuna’s front and rear views
Their pages have also had some screenshots & overviews of their attacks added (click on the second button above the characters’ vital stats). Xion seems to have some attacks or spells named ‘Thunder Blade’, ‘Spark’ (ah, the old faithful!), ‘Gravity Slash’ and ‘Thousands Thrust’ (sp?). Unfortunately, I’m unable to translate the names of some of Ryuna’s attacks/spells, as they are written in Kanji 🙁 But, the first one mentions something about assorted monsters, the second appears to be some kind of support/defensive magic, the third is ‘Cure’ (which restores HP & SP… I still miss ‘MP’, but I guess Shining Soul changed that…), the fourth is ‘Shining’ and seems to be a combination attack/spell with Xion, the fifth I believe is ‘Turn Undead’ (which is another combination attack/spell), the sixth is something to do with light, the seventh seems to be some kind of summon (‘Opal Snake’?)… looks like there are a lot of ways to kill the enemy in this game 😉
Lots more screenshots and information has also been added to the System page (I’ll try to get some translated later today if possible) – Shining Tears seems to be full of options and rich in gameplay… though, the truth of the gaming is in the playing 😀 I’m very much looking forward to giving this game a go in the near future – November’s not far away now!