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Shining Blade

This is a Japan-only game in the Shining franchise. The game's battle system is called "Concerto", and is a strategic real time battle system similar to the ones found in Sakura Wars and Valkyria Chronicles…

15 March 2012

Shining Blade is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Media.Vision, released 15 March 2012 on PlayStation Portable.

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What Shining Blade is

Shining Blade is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Media.Vision and released in 2012. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation Portable only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Within the Dragonia Empire, a plan to revive the leader of the Dark Dragon by sapping spirit energy from the land starts to unfold. With giant dragons rampaging throughout the land and the world engulfed in chaos, all hope has turn to the retrieval of the mysterious "Shining Blade". And thus, a soul blader is given the task to obtain the legendary blade and find Loreley, the songstress who sings the "Song of Mana"
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Shining series

Shining Blade is the ninth of 12 entries we hold in the Shining series. It arrived a year after Shining Hearts. The next entry was Shining Resonance in 2014.

See all 12 Shining games in release order →

What it launched against

Shining Blade launched on 15 March 2012, within three weeks of Mass Effect 3, Journey, Kid Icarus: Uprising and Devil May Cry HD Collection.

Released around the same time: Mass Effect 3, Journey, Kid Icarus: Uprising, Devil May Cry HD Collection.

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When did Shining Blade come out?
Shining Blade was released on 15 March 2012 for PlayStation Portable.

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