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BLADE ARCUS Gameplay Video Highlights Rick, Melty
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The official website of Sega's BLADE ARCUS from Shining EX 2D fighting game began streaming a gameplay video on Friday highlighting characters Melty (voiced by Rie Kugimiya) and Rick (voiced by Hiroshi Kamiya). Both characters are from Shining Hearts.
Sega streamed two gameplay videos for Altina, Roselinde, Xiao-Mei, and Fenrir last Friday. The company also streamed gameplay videos for Sonia, Rage, Sakuya, Ryuga, and Pairon earlier this month.
The game is a console port of Sega's BLADE ARCUS from Shining arcade fighting game, which is a spinoff of its Shining role-playing games. Sega will ship BLADE ARCUS from Shining EX for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in Japan on November 26.
The game's standard package edition and the download edition both retail for 6,990 yen (about US$56). The limited edition retails for 9,990 yen (US$81) and includes a special box designed by Tony, a 48-page "Shining Heroines Works" book, a Shining Blade soundtrack CD, a character song CD for Shining Ark, and a "Shining Beach Heroines Swimsuit Calendar" for 2016.
First print copies of the game will include product code that will allow the download of Sonia Blanche (played by Asami Seto) from Shining Resonance as a playable character.
The character roster thus far includes:
- Ryuga (original character)
- Pairon Wong (original character)
- Rage (Shining Blade)
- Sakuya (Shining Blade)
- Fenrir (Shining Blade)
- Altina (Shining Blade)
- Xiao-Mei (Shining Hearts)
- Melty (Shining Hearts)
- Isaac (Shining Hearts)
- Roselinde (Shining Blade)
- Rick Elwood (Shining Hearts)
- Dylan Rowen (Shining Hearts)
- Rouna Murasame (Shining Hearts)
- Urayukihime Hayane (Shining Hearts)
- Misty (Shining Hearts)
Kenji Akabane will provide the voice for Ryuga, the game's hero, and Asami Shimoda will voice Pairon, the heroine.
Illustrator Tony designed the game's characters. Toshinobu Kondō is directing the game at Studio Saizensen.
