skateak Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Share 653 Tweet Embed Remind me Halfway between a dynamic fights’ manga and the fantasy of an RPG, discover the amazing universe of Shiness ! Shiness is a Role Playing Game which will let you dive into a new adventure across Sky Islands. In a world where every land strives for power, two Wakis named Chado and Poky, traveling aboard a flying boat, accidentally land on a very dangerous island. Prepare yourself for an epic journey into a huge universe that will stay with you for a long time! With its unpredictable storylines and frenetic gameplay, Shiness is waiting for you to play the story imagined 20 years ago by our Creative Director and finally brought to life. Shiness is now on greenlight, we need your votes ! #Update 3 PS4 Stretch Goal Planned platforms: PC Windows and Mac OSX (more if we are able to). Release date: Q1, 2015 on PC, Mac. Approx. gameplay time: 20 hours in the solo adventure mode, infinite for the online mode. Language: We invented a full Language (more information further). A long time ago on a planet called Mahera, many species lived together in harmony. They were all linked by a spiritual energy, source of life and progress. This Energy was called the Shi. As the civilizations were thriving, the Shi started dwindling which eventually led to a devastating war. The storm of violence unleashed by living beings became unstoppable. The green grass in the valleys was coated by ashes and the rain suddenly became a reminder of the horror suffered by the crying of a planet its own children were mistreating. The all-encompassing link the Shi was once able to maintain failed, hence causing the core of the planet - its heart - to collapse. Crackles appeared all around the globe and then, in a gigantic explosion, Mahera became a cloud of dirt and lighting bolts, enclaving each civilization to its own part of the globe: Meteora masses of land-floating nearby from one another, forever separated both physically and spiritually. Since those dark times, Human, Sheiks and Waki rebuilt their lives separately and life went on. This disruption of the nature caused Mahera to split into celestial islands, calledMeteoras and by then signing of the end of an era. Since then,Human,Sheiks and Waki rebuilt themselves separately and life went on. Chado and Poky, two friends from the Kimpao islands in the land of Wakis, will accidentally land on Adorn Island. You will play Chado (at first) and your first goal will be to find your lost friend Poky. Little will you realize, at that time, that you will be involved in a story that will reveal a far more important destiny ... ___________________________________________________________ Chado can summon a rock on his back. It can be thrown, dropped or be used as a weight. As you progress in the game, Chado will be able to : summon multiple rocks. summon different sizes of rocks. Depending on the rocks' size and Chado’s level, throwing a rock before a battle can stun an enemy, which is sometimes useful… _________________________________________________________ His mechanical engineering skills actually span from his ability to manipulate magnetic fields and influence electrical streams. Therefore, Poky can repair machines, or pull to him the evil ones he is fighting against. He must beware that others don’t see him, or they will attack. _________________________________________________________ Rosalya can summon fire, lighting up any scene and dissipating darkness. She is capable of opening paths, detecting traps as well as reveal hidden or invisible foes and animals. Use your brain to combine these abilities to progress through the game, but don’t forget that your group can only count 3 characters at any given time! _________________________________________________________ Kayenne has a psychic ability: telekinesis. Using his power, he can move distant doodads (only if not mechanical), activates assets or paralyze enemies in combat. _________________________________________________________ Armed with a plant whip, Askel can catch objects on others (friend or foe), and otherwise unreachable items (like an equipment). He is very useful to expand your inventory. Shiness will make you explore many areas of the game by leaving on quests, resolving puzzles, fighting against enemies, bosses, notorious monsters and hunting animals to get items. We wanted to make Shiness intuitive and accessible whilst maintaining a high level of interest for more hardcore gamers. There will be a bunch of very hard challenges in the game that only the best of you will be able to handle! Brace yourselves for some epic fights... Since Shiness is inspired of manga comic books (think about Dragon Ball & Naruto for example... ), it made sense for us to make our battle system a fighting game. But since it's a RPG, we needed to have a certain level of strategy depth during fights. Far from traditional turn-based RPG systems, we wanted fighting and exploration to remain closely connected at each and every moment. Therefore, every fight happens directly on the main map with barely no transition between the fight and the exploration modes (the only difference being the summoning of the Arena), maintaining a fast rhythm and constant in-game action interactions ! We mixed magic and close combat to make the player come up with many strategies for defeating your enemies. Just like in classic Fighting Games you will be able to punch, kick, counter attacks, dodge as well as use combos! Arena : Just like in any fighting game, your foe and you will fight by throwing each other punches, kicks, devastating combos, spells, and so on. The arena is linked to one of the element (water, fire, earth, air) which interacting with your magical statistics and takes strategy to whole a new level: using a spell from the same element than the arena will drastically increase its power, range, or effect... But you should take into account that it does apply to your enemy as well… However, even if your character faces an enemy in a closed arena, your nearest teammates can interact with the fight. Companions that you have configured before the battle will act according to what happens during your fight. Shiness' combat system is highly dynamic. Given its wide range of attacks, your hero will only be at his full potential if you memorize all specials combo combinations. You could also do combos by completing successfully a series of actions. Those special attacks are more powerful and impressive. Finally, you will be able to trigger some Hyper Modes, spectacular sequences which will change depending on the designs and powers of each character. By following a series of actions, the "Hyper Mode" will launch a devastating attack. Engaging the battle : As players, we feel bored of RPG with farming quest without any interesting story-line. We are spending considerable time and efforts to prepare for you a great story-line with each quest :Investigate, interrogate, defeat strong notorious monsters, and face tough challenges. One of the points of interest of Shiness is also its cross-media part : by reading the comic book, you will find some clues about the game ! Read carefully, and then trigger these special quest in the game... But the main point about the quest system is the following: for each and every quest in the game, several ways to solve it shall be available! As an example, imagine a very simple quest in which your group will have to pick up an item lying in a cave, guarded by a bunch of enemies. Some of you will fight and defeat all of the monsters, pick the item and bring it back. Others will infiltrate the cave, stun or paralyze enemies, grab the item and run away before they wake up. Others still will directly try to negotiate with the enemy leader to buy the item back... Depending on your choices and actions, your reputation and quest rewards will be different, and after a while affect the way NPCs interact with you. Unlike most of the Role Playing Games, the world will change according to your decisions. Thus, if you use diplomacy in most circumstances, some areas will be more welcoming; some cities will expand, new shops could open and bring in specific items… Hunting : The Meteora islands are the living place of several harmless creatures. During your adventures, you will have to hunt them for the purpose of quests or simply to get new items. Some say there are creatures that carry very rare items… Animals are harmless and shy, every little being will run away whenever you’re around. Whether they fly, crawl or swim, a great diversity of animals inhabits the lands of Meteora. In Shiness, martial arts are often more efficient than weapons. Thus, you will have the opportunity to learn and equip 3 types of arts on your characters: Physical Art: Enable to learn new combos and Hyper Mode Magical Art: Enable to learn new spells. Supply Art: This one is generated from the combination of Physical and Magicaland it will affect the behavior of the equipped character in all of his social interactions. During the game, you will get several disciplines in order to learn new techniques and grow more powerful. Each character carries his own props such as bracelets, necklaces, etc… Those props changes the look of the heroes as well as their statistics, their affinities with the natural elements and even the reputation of the team. You will be able to assign objects (in limited quantities) to your characters in order to use them during fights. In Shiness, the Shi is used to fuel magic spells. In order to use it efficiently, you will have to master the alchemy of the elements and know the weaknesses of your opponents. You can cast several during a fight such as damage spells, defensive spells (health care, increase of statistics…) or even status effects (poison, blindness, paralysis etc.). There are two steps to cast a spell: Channeling: Your hero summons the Shi and focuses (you can channel as long as you want but it will cap after a certain amount). Channeling time depends on the spell’s parameters (damage, resistance, area of effect…) Launching: Aim the opponent with the spell. However, be careful because the spells you have selected are limited. It is up to you to wisely prepare your spells before a tough fight.You can be interrupted (so does your opponent) while casting a spell if your enemy succeeds to hit on you at the right time. Online Mode ? We currently dream about making an online mode, but we need your help for that, and if we manage to fund this game we will be introduce three online modes as stretch goals (co-op, versus, world challenge) Shiness is currently being developed for PC (Windows) and Mac (OS X) with the Unreal Development Kit. We have a prototype of the game that has proven its worth. It already includes all playable characters, monsters, quests and challenges. It also features the basics for our battle system and a chunk of our universe. The prototype has been tested multiple times on public events we have attended in our country, France. We have received lots of good feedback so far from all the people who have played the prototype. Those tests helped our development team a lot in order focus on the gameplay issues to improve the overall feeling. More than a video game, Shiness is also the beginning a comic book, and both media will be increasing the storyline and the background. While you read the manga you will definitely discover some secrets of Shiness's universe. Enigami is a team of passionate and dedicated people who are working on Shiness. Since about a year, some of us decided to stop their current jobs to start working full timeon this project, carefully using our savings to make it happen. The others are workingevery night after work with only on goal in mind: make Shiness live ! That's why we need YOU, to make this real! You did notice in the trailer that the characters were speaking in a language you never heard before. That is simply because we invented it ! We wanted the game to have a distinct feel and identity, and this was a way to achieve it! Thanks to Clement and Deborah - who are post graduate students of linguistics at University of Bordeaux -and their amazing work, we have a grammar, a vocabulary and even a dictionary ! We now sometimes make jokes in our studio in our unique language. Voice talent : To make this language alive we needed to cast some actors. We worked students from the Eicar School in Paris who very much enjoyed to help. The result was so amazing that we decided to do the adventure with them until the end, if we manage to finally release Shiness. Game scoring is composed by our game producer himself, Hazem Hawash. Why him ? Because his long time dream has been to make a great OST for a game that can be played by a lot of people... Hazem's major influences are Nobuo Uematsu( Final Fantasy ) , Yasunori Mitsuda ( Chrono Series ), Joe Hisashi ( Studio Ghibli ) and Yoko Kanno. We have included them here, please tell us what do you think : Angel, our sound designer, is an amazing guy that has believed in the project since its early start, event when our prototype was not yet good enough. He also uses his voice for some creatures in the game, like Gromiz or Pigrel. Since the beginning, the team for Shiness has very little budget, and we have been doing everything out of pure passion. We spent 3 years (a long time to go when you have no social life..) developing this project with a small team, and it is still far from over. When Ynnis joined the project, they helped in many ways including allow us to advance the game sufficiently to be able to launch this Kisckstarter. We believe in our project so much that we think we will be able to convince you. And we badly need the money to make the game happen and finish it. That is why we launched this Kickstarter. We want to build the game with YOU guys and hear YOUR opinion in order to make it better. It gives us energy to see people interested in our project, which we are counting us to make us unstoppable so we'll take on any challenge and make a great game ! Why do we target 100 000 $ as our initial goal ? We made some calculations. Though some of us have already spent years on the game, and others months, we yet need almost half a year with a full-time team to finish the game - and that is without counting any beta tests. With 100 000 $ we will be able to pay the whole team and get the small extra help we need. I think this game looks amazing and hope it gets funded. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parker Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Damn, that looks pretty badass. I'd love to see it make its way to the PS4, hopefully they reach their funding goal for that. Parker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piggie_Pie Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 I think i will keep my eye on this... Once it gets closer to the PS4 goal, i will throw some money on it... I love my JRPGs and would love to see some on the PS4... Looks a lot like a Tales style game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doom Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 (edited) Can't see the video at work, but from the images I don't see anything particularly next gen. Hell, I've never seen a jrpg that can be even considered 'last gen'. Every jrpg I've ever seen is pretty much on ps2 level. Edited May 14, 2014 by DocDoomII Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piggie_Pie Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 oh wow! If you pledge $65 you get your name in the credits! sweet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skateak Posted May 14, 2014 Author Share Posted May 14, 2014 Can't see the video at work, but from the images I don't see anything particularly next gen. Hell, I've never seen a jrpg that can be even considered 'last gen'. Every jrpg I've ever seen is pretty much on ps2 level. They didn't say next gen they said new gen. As in new generation. Probably trying things that JRPGs don't usually do. I don't think they mean visual quality. The art style is really nice. I think that is better than hyper realistic graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parker Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 I think it looks great. Yeah, it doesn't look as realistic as something like the Final Fantasy XIII series but the art style is very pleasing to the eye, in my opinion. I think the best looking RPG of last generation was Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, that game looked amazing because of the awesome art style. Parker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carville87 Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Looks interesting but they can have my money when it is released on the PS4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piggie_Pie Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 I think it looks great. Yeah, it doesn't look as realistic as something like the Final Fantasy XIII series but the art style is very pleasing to the eye, in my opinion. I think the best looking RPG of last generation was Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, that game looked amazing because of the awesome art style. Parker I couldn't agree more... with everything that you said here... not to change the subject but you should check out a Tales game if you haven't already. Tales of Xillia would probably be the best one of the PS3 generation... followed by Tales of Graces f. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parker Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 I couldn't agree more... with everything that you said here... not to change the subject but you should check out a Tales game if you haven't already. Tales of Xillia would probably be the best one of the PS3 generation... followed by Tales of Graces f. I played Tales of Symphonia on the GameCube and loved it but for some reason never picked up any of the games on PS3. I'll definitely look into those games though, thanks for the suggestion. Parker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skateak Posted May 15, 2014 Author Share Posted May 15, 2014 I played Tales of Symphonia on the GameCube and loved it but for some reason never picked up any of the games on PS3. I'll definitely look into those games though, thanks for the suggestion. Parker Damn man you missed out. From two different PSN sales I was able to get Xilla and Symphonia 1&2 for $20 all together. Haven't started them yet though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stilhungover Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 To say this looks interesting is an understatement..... Why not, I'll throw some money at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skateak Posted May 16, 2014 Author Share Posted May 16, 2014 (edited) To say this looks interesting is an understatement..... Why not, I'll throw some money at it. Perfect signature gif for your post. PS. Congrats on your Dark Souls plat. Edited May 16, 2014 by skateak 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skateak Posted April 16, 2017 Author Share Posted April 16, 2017 On 5/14/2014 at 4:41 AM, Parker said: Damn, that looks pretty badass. I'd love to see it make its way to the PS4, hopefully they reach their funding goal for that. Parker Almost three years later, it is actually making its way to PS4 on Tuesday. https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/shiness-the-lightning-kingdom-ps4/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pelotedeneige Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 (edited) Just so you know, I've witnessed some troubling bugs which prevent from getting trophies. I have collected 500 000 Uzus et opened a lot of chests (some with a large amount of it) without having the money trophy. I completed the game once (with the bad ending I guess) without dying (or at least, reloaded a previous save when I did) and didn't get the corresponding trophy. Also, a lever cannot be triggered on the PS4 version (PC version is fine) meaning an area with a secret portal is not accessible. The trophy asking to discover every secret door is impossible to get for now, plus who knows what else relies there. I wanted to point out that after getting level 50, my characters continued receiving XP until they reach ... level 1. My stats are the same but I lost my MP and another gauge. I cannot use magic and special attacks as much as I did. Another weird thing : I oneshot pratically every monster because my strenght is the same, in every area except a secret one in which monsters are level 50. I deal 1 of damage and they oneshot me. I just wanted you to know that the PC version was ready quite long before the PS4 one and the dev decided to port it right after with an identical release date. PS4 version seems not clear. If you don't hear about a day one patch, just be careful before playing it. Edited April 17, 2017 by Moiledieu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisty123 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 (edited) On Sunday, 16 April 2017 at 7:49 PM, Moiledieu said: I completed the game once (with the bad ending I guess) without dying (or at least, reloaded a previous save when I did) and didn't get the corresponding trophy. Reading an Xbox trophy guide who makes mention that if you see the you lose screen you will need to start a new playthrough no matter what you do. I can not confirm this but if it is correct then loading a previous save would cancel it out. I wonder if you backup the save to Cloud and pull it down would it work. The reason for this is the game has an inbuilt tracker system where this stats are not linked to the save file but the system save. It is the same with doing all the quests where some quests require you to do it a certain way, you can save before hand pass the quest then load the same save file and pass it the other way. Due to the inbuilt tracker system it will count that you have done both quests towards the trophy. This same guide also said the Uzus achievement did not unlock for them and thinks it might only count money obtained a certain way. On another topic how long did it take for you to pass the game? Edited April 18, 2017 by fisty123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pelotedeneige Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 (edited) Thanks for the clarification. I really appreciate. I cannot say for sure how long it took because I was very slow to make sure I did not miss anything (and I did, unfortunately). I would say 20-25 hours with nearly every sidequests and farming to learn all the Techniques and buying some stuff. For the Uzu trophy I just got it by replaying the game. Like you said, stats seem to be linked to the system. I made multiples saves in which I continued playing and I started another one from the beginning for the quest trophy. I obtained 100 000 Uzus only by opening chests in the wild (selling and quests rewards do not count). I completed quests that I knew I was missing but still didn't have the trophy. I don't know where are the other ones. Do you have a link for the Xbox guide you are reading ? It would be really helpful. Edited April 18, 2017 by Moiledieu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisty123 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 (edited) 3 hours ago, Moiledieu said: I completed quests that I knew I was missing but still didn't have the trophy. I don't know where are the other ones. Do you have a link for the Xbox guide you are reading ? It would be really helpful. I am not sure if sharing other sites guides is allowed or not on this forum, but it can be found on the xboxachievements website. The guide is still missing somethings but its the best we have at this stage Edited April 18, 2017 by fisty123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pelotedeneige Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 (edited) I understand. Thanks again. If I can help in any way, I will. Edited April 18, 2017 by Moiledieu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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