[PSP] Shining Ark

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http://shining-world.jp/ark/

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Sega has a new role playing game for PSP called Shining Ark. The story begins when Panis, a girl with one black wing, drifts ashore on an island. Freed finds Panis and takes care of her.

Ever since Panis arrived Nephilim, a colossal monster, attacks the village when the moon glows red. This monster is so huge Freed pokes at its toes.

Shining Ark uses an active & command battle system for monster battles. You can move around the battlefield, guard, dash, and if you’re close to an enemy you can attack using one of your character’s commands. Each character has their own attacks and you can bring four party members into battle. Panis has a unique battle system that Sega will explain later on.

When you’re not defending the village from pirates or fighting huge monsters, you do everyday island life stuff. Shining Ark has players tend to a vegetable garden, gather dairy products like eggs and milk, and bake bread. The scope sounds similar to Harvest Moon or Rune Factory, well if Natsume’s games had pirates.

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Panis is the central character in Shining Ark, but you can’t actually control her. The way Panis acts is entirely dependant on her mood and relationship with Freed. If you strengthen your bond with Panis you can give her instructions on what to do. On the field, Panis can find items. You can also give Panis items, like bread, to change how she feels. An icon in the upper right hand corner lets you know if she’s happy or aggravated. Firing Panis up isn’t necessarily bad that makes her more likely to attack enemies in battle. A happy Panis is more likely to heal party members in battle. Panis can also sing songs that buff the group or charm townsfolk to give her items.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RaxUhB3aZY

Opening movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo9-RQ_Uy9g

To be released on February 28.

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Shining Ark’s battle system will be similar to the Valkyria Chronicles system, which Sega calls a “Turn based Action Command Battle”. Rather than a player and enemy phase, both sides will be part of the mix for an ongoing battle flow.

An added a strategic twist, is the ‘Move Down’ effect, which lets players play with the turn order kind of like Final Fantasy X. There will be special attacks that can allow the player to dictate the order of the battle.

The ‘Chain Bonus’ can be achieved by doing continuous actions against an enemy, which adds a bonus damage. A good tactic will be to stay near your enemies and keep moving their turns down for multiple attacks and bonuses to go with it.

Character movements in Shining Ark are limited to the half-circle bar, known as the move-gauge. They’ll be able to continue moving through the battlefield, until it runs out. Additionally, they’ve added the dash feature, which uses up a lot more of the move-gauge, but is much faster and allows the player to be immune from all attacks during the course of the dash. It’ll be a great way to get yourself out of a pinch.

The guarding feature will also use the character’s move-gauge. It can be used to intercept damage and cover allies.

Most of the attacks are split into regular attacks and ‘Force’ attacks. The basic attacks can be aimed towards several parts of the enemies. It also has a short and long ranged variety, depending on the character and weapon. Force attacks use up your Force Gauge, they are your character’s special attacks which include various abilities and magic.

Being within vicinity of an ally during your attack will allow for a ‘Link Attack’. Linking your attacks with allies lets them to join the fight to add more damage. Up to four characters can be linked at the same time.

To make it easier to link, the Duo feature allows you to have a nearby ally follow you. Not only will it help for the extra Link Attack damage, but it can also be handy to give extra movements.

Shining Ark also factors character personalities in each battle. Different personalities can bring out different random abilities in your characters. The ability is selected at random and may require something to trigger them at times.

Freed is the protagonist in Shining Ark. In combat, Freed is a magic knight who relies on his sword skill and lightning magic attacks to help his party. His personality type is ‘Leader’ which can be activated simply by fighting alongside allies.

Freed has many lightning Force attacks, which can also be used to attack enemies from a distance to go with his sword skills to take on enemies in close range.

When the right conditions are met, Freed can activate his special ability, known as Overmove. When it is activated, Freed will have 3 turns in a row, which can be used to move, attack and support the rest of the crew.

Newly introduced boss monsters:

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11 minutes of footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysPaSsTl920