#Shining Resonance

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Rinna Mayfield ; Shining Resonance ☆ Kotobukiya

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Kirika ; Shining Resonance ☆ Kotobukiya

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⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

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Rinna Mayfield // Shining Resonance

1/8 Scale by Kotobukiya

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What if I told you that there were two separate games whose’s main characters were purple-haired boys named Yuma?

And now you know.

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Kirika Towa Alma • Shining Resonance 1/8 Scale Figure by Kotobukiya

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Fin or Bin: Shining Resonance Refrain

My whole life, I've craved a certain… something. I've never quite been able to put words to it, and I lack many of the skills required to make it myself, so my search goes on. A music-based story where music is magic and the songs happen in-universe and have a specific impact on the story. A good example of something that comes close is Gitaroo Man, which I have played to death and love to bits, but it's not quite hitting that intangible sweet spot that eludes description.

I saw the Steam page for Shining Resonance and wondered if it might be The One, with its clear focus on music as a theme and the repeated showings of the characters standing in a circle playing their instruments to do battle. And early on, I was hopeful, as Diva Magica Kirika whips out her longbow which is also a harp (possibly the coolest thing I have ever seen in my life and I want one) and enters musical battle with the villainous Princess Excella, who is also very very cool and uses a flute-spear to control dragons. Like, damn, right?

Sadly the musical connection is only skin-deep. I had been hoping for perhaps attacks being timed with the background music making them more powerful, or a quick rhythm-action sequence to cast spells, but it is instead most similar to the Tales Of series. Overworld monsters collide with you, a battle begins, you mash attacks at them until they die, and move on. Even those circular jam sessions in the trailer are no more than mini cutscenes with no interaction that grant a slew of passive bonuses for a short duration after they are completed.

I didn't find what I was looking for here. But what I did find was a passable-to-decent RPG with some honestly very likeable characters and like-to-hateable villains and great voice acting. Cutscenes mostly play out in visual novel style, actions implied rather than shown, which is somewhat a shame.

Fin or Bin:

There's a delightful nostalgic bite to these cheesy, cheap, naff Gamecube/Wii era RPGs (this one originally on PS3), and I am eating. I'd give it a 6/10 on the cheesecake rating; Sonia's boob-window armour is very distracting for all the wrong reasons, but these kinda games often go the weird harem route with all the girls falling in love with MC (except the one who thinks he's s-stupid…!), and that doesn't seem to be happening here- though that might be because MC-du-jour Yuma is the saddest wet cat of a man you've ever seen and couldn't court a chatbot. But mostly, I want to Finish this to find out what the heck is going on with Excella, a villain so cool they put her on the storepage box art instead of any of the protags!

(Steam)

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Beating four games in a single month might be my personal record. Glad to finally be clearing out a bit of my backlog.

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Regrets and Reunions

What's better than a long overdue reconciliation? A PLOT TWIST! Though, unsurprisingly, Georg is an absolute buzzkill and super duper wrecks the vibe once again with his need to be the center of attention.

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A little late, but my black friday order from videogamesplus arrived. That's what happens when you get stuff from Canada in winter. But they've also had good sales lately, so they must be busy. I had to scale back too, and remove a few things, narrowing it down to these games. And the temptation is still there too. As they got more sales and new titles to offer. I bought a decent variety, mostly anime related. Ps3, Ps4, Xbox One, and Switch. I'm happy.

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18-05-2023 Blade Arcus Discord Tournament #4 vs DCHShadow

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Kirika Towa Alma (Akayougoromo Ver.) // Shining Resonance

1/8 Scale by Kotobukiya

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Langrisser x Shining Resonance - Next crossover collab CN (Special Video)

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Kirika Towa Alma (Akayougoromo ver.) • Shining Resonance 1/8 Scale Figure by Kotobukiya