Slogan: Remingle under the Blue Glass Moon, and with what you find there. Even if you think you know the world, lunacy lurks there.
MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA (メルティブラッド：タイプルミナ?) is a reboot of the Melty Blood franchise following the continuity of the Tsukihime Remake series. It was released on September 30, 2021 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Steam.
Plot[]
Unlike Melty Blood Act sub-series, which took place after both Tsukihime's non-existing route of Satsuki Yumizuka (a year later), and Kagetsu Tohya (a month later) in original timeline, Type: Lumina takes place ten days before Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon-. However, some of the characters' episode takes place within certain routes in Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- or Tsukihime -The other side of red garden-.
Since the appearance of Artoria Pendragon (Saber) in the initial roster, there is a storyline depicted a crossover between Fate and Tsukihime, dubbed as Neco-Arc Saga, due to Neco-Arc being the main antagonist of the two seasons.
Characters[]
The roster consists of 22 characters (14 initial and 8 DLC rosters). It was said that some characters who appeared in the original timeline depicted in the Melty Blood Act sub-series, such as the game series' original main heroine, Sion Eltnam Atlasia are not yet to physically appear in the remake timeline, initially due to this game's timeline continuity taking place before the remade events of Tsukihime, Kagetsu Tohya, and Melty Blood Act sub-series. There are only four guest characters from Fate franchise.
- Playable Characters
- Initial Roster
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| Shiki Tohno | Arcueid Brunestud | Akiha Tohno |
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| Ciel | Hisui | Kohaku |
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| Kouma Kishima | Hisui & Kohaku | Miyako Arima |
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| Noel | Michael Roa Valdamjong | Vlov Arkhangel |
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| Red Arcueid | Artoria Pendragon (Saber) |
- DLC Roster
Some of these fighters originally non-playable prior to being playable:
- Powered Ciel: Part of Base Ciel's Arc moves and also appears in Dead Apostle Noel's ending.
- Mario Gallo Bestino: Voice heard in Aoko's ending.
- Neco-Arc: Appears in Miyako's Boss Rush route conversations.
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| Dead Apostle Noel | Aoko Aozaki | Mario Gallo Bestino |
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| Powered Ciel |
- Wave 2/Fate/Grand Order
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| Neco-Arc | Mash Kyrielight | Edmond Dantès |
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| Ushiwakamaru |
- NPC Characters
There are a few characters who either appear or are mentioned in the game:
- Master Panda: Part of Miyako's Last Arc, also when Miyako being hit by Powered Ciel's Last Arc.
- Satsuki Yumizuka: Appears in the gallery's special pool artwork, and mentioned in Noel's arcade ending.
- Dr. Arach: Indirectly mentioned in the beginning of Dead Apostle Noel's arcade mode.
- Mio Saiki: Only her tent in "Actions in the Lower World" battle stage.
- Alice Kuonji: Mentioned in Aoko's arcade ending.
- Lord El-Melloi II: Mentioned in Aoko's arcade ending.
- Touko Aozaki: Mentioned in Aoko's arcade ending.
- Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg: Mentioned in Aoko's arcade ending.
- Gawain: Mentioned by Saber.
- Eco-Arc: Part of Neco-Arc's tricky summon moves.
- Neco Spirits: Among the other Neco Spirits, there are counterparts of other major route heroines from original Tsukihime release (Neco-Ciel for Ciel, Neco-Akiha for Akiha, Neco-Hisui for Hisui and Neco-Kohaku for Kohaku, barring Satsuki). Choosing one of their color palette will change to one of the Neco spirit counterparts' voice actress.
- Ritsuka Fujimaru (Male version): Appears in Mash's ending Part A and Edmond's ending.
- Leonardo da Vinci: Appears in Mash's ending Part A and Edmond's ending.
- EMIYA (Archer): Appears in Mash's ending Part A and Edmond's ending.
- Fou: Appears in Mash's ending Part A and Edmond's ending.
- Shiki Nanaya: Appears as an opponent Noel's Boss Rush stage, in addition of having different voice lines to differentiate from Shiki Tohno.
- Jingle Abel Meuniere: Appears in Edmond Dantès ending.
- Len: Appears as a silhouette following the credits of Boss Rush 4, where she attacks Neco-Arc.
Gameplay[]
Most of the gameplay systems carried over from the Act games, with the exception of Guard Meter and Moon Styles.
There are new gameplay systems introduced:
- Rapid Beat allows players to execute combinations with repeated presses of the attack buttons. However, once a same button is pressed second times, the third follow-up will immediately goes to a Launcher (regular main button outside Rapid Beat is universally 3C) while on the ground and Air Throw while in the air, meaning Reverse Beat cannot be used normally. As of August 2022, Rapid Beat has option through either pressing A+B after a normal button, or being disabled. However, the original function of Rapid Beat is required in Mission Mode.
- New Moon Systems:
- Moon Skills: very powerful Specials that can be unleashed by consuming the Moon Icons that appear next to the Life Gauge. These deal greater damage than regular Specials, and are not only powerful but easy to activate with simple controls using combinations of the directional buttons and attack buttons.
- Moon Drive: a Chain Shift/Roman Cancel/Overdrive-based power-up that can be activated by using all of Moon Icons any time with more than one half full. It temporarily boosts Moon Skill, increases Magic Circuit or number of possible Jumps/Dashes, as well as providing various other effects.
Additionally, the Last Arc mechanic has been updated with another variant: Instead of requires EX Shielding, a second variant of Last Arc mechanic can now be used via pressing all four main buttons (A+B+C+D) simultaneously and normally, as most characters’ Last Arc moves are being reworked into Instant Kill-like attacks. Last Arc can be access after losing a previous round and gaining four level gauge bars on next rounds at a same time; then can only be used once at full level, causing the character's level bar slots revert back to regular three levels.
The game is also confirmed to have Rollback Netcode for online battles. However, a Cross-Play system between different consoles is not featured.
Initially, characters in Story Mode scenario solely uses CG-based character artworks like in Under Night In-Birth, including Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax. As of August 2022, the sprite-based scenario return from original timeline's Melty Blood Act sub-series, which also hints some NPC characters who unexpectedly appears in the storyline may, or remain not to become one of the future DLC characters.
Music[]
- Opening Theme:
- "Stack Black" by Hiyori Miyamoto and Raito.[1]
- Ending Themes:
Development[]
Type Lumina initially started development in early 2010 as an untitled Melty Blood HD Remake, prior to French Bread shifting development to their original game, Under Night In-Birth; however, development was halted due to TYPE-MOON being busy with developing Mahoutsukai no Yoru. A decade later, French Bread and TYPE-MOON returned to collaborate again and rebooted the series, with Delightworks assisting in production and sales. Type Lumina appears to run on the same engine and uses a similar sprite style as Under Night In-Birth and Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax, both developed by French Bread. It was planned for a worldwide release on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows and Xbox One on September 30, 2021. While confirmed to be taking place prior to Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon-, Melty Blood: Type Lumina was originally was originally meant to be a "what-if scenario", until Shiki's arcade ending confirms the game’s canonical continuity, though some like Dead Apostle Noel alternatively takes place during certain routes during between Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- or the upcoming Tsukihime -The other side of red garden-.
Apart from the upgraded graphics and much different gameplay, the teaser shows animated cinematic cut-in screens for super moves, even faster gameplay than previous versions and HD graphics. Character naming conventions have been reverted to English styles even for organic Japanese names, and like French Bread's and Type-Moon's recent releases, now comes with English language out of the box. Previous Melty Blood, the Act sub-series (safe for Current Code) releases were exclusively in Japanese.
In TYPE-MOON Vol. 5, the game’s initial roster was originally though to end with 13. However, TYPE-MOON Vol. 6 presentations reveals this game adds one more initial roster, who happens to be originating from a series outside Tsukihime timelines, Fate timelines, reveals to be its main mascot heroine, Saber class Artoria Pendragon (simply listed as "Saber" in-game).
On October 29, 2021, it will feature post-launch DLC characters and their associated stages.
- Season 1: Represents other characters who appears in ongoing Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon-.
- The first two representing teachers were released on January 13, 2022 for free on January 15, 2022. In the end of 2021, the said DLC Pack’s second fighter was announced to commence both upcoming movie adaption and home console ports of the Tsukihime prequel, Mahoutsukai no Yoru.
- The second two representing the high-ranked members of Holy Church will be released on April 14, 2022. Both fighters are announced at the same time after Type-Moon's official tournament on April 10, 2022. The characters were originally non-playable at the initial release as well.
- Season 2: Represents the conclusion of crossover storyline with Fate series, mostly consist one of the chose Fate/Grand Order roster. Announced after Type-Moon's second official tournament on June 26, 2022, Four characters are set to be released for August 19, and Winter 2022 respectively. As of this season, all DLC fighters within all Season Passes are made available through update patches instead of requiring to download them at the online storefronts, just like Bandai Namco's Tekken Tag Tournament 2.
- Neco-Arc's return as a playable character in Summer 2022 was foreshadowed in the Boss Rush of the game, where she was originally non-playable. Other than to commence EVO 2022, Neco-Arc is accompanied by another Fate timelines' guest fighter, as part of exchange collaboration for inclusion of Arcueid's Archetype-Earth form in Fate/Grand Order. Additionally, additional Story Mode chapters which uses sprite and 3D stage bases scenes unlike the previous Season are included.
- While an anniversary update on September 30, 2022 is set to update color customization systems, and stage select menus, and add ten selected remastered music tracks from Melty Blood Actress Again. One of the fighters in Winter 2022 will be surprisingly "unusual".
- December 11, 2022 reveals the inclusion of the regular servants from Fate/Grand Order, a Rider class Ushiwakamaru and Avenger class Edmond Dantès (the latter listed as "The Count of Monte Cristo" in-game), who serves as the last Fate crossover fighters to conclude its crossover storyline via last two of four Boss Rush chapters, in addition to ten more BGMs Actress Again. By the time, the update was released, Boss Rush 4's post-credits reveals the inclusion of Kagetsu Tohya heroine, Len, hinting the possible next storyline to return one of all old characters from Act sub-series to incorporate this game's storyline before post-Tsukihime Blue games.
12 years after the inclusion Melty Blood Actress Again in the main EVO 2010 (while Under Nights In-Birth Exe:Late[st] is solely the first French-Bread owned game to participate in the main EVO 2018), Type Lumina becomes the second game made by both French-Bread and TYPE-MOON to be in main EVO tournament, with the latest entry is in EVO 2022 on August 2022, then coming back to EVO Japan 2023.
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Trailers[]
Character videos[]
Version history[]
Manga[]
External Links[]
References[]
| Main works |
| Tsukihime • Tsukihime anime • Tsukihime PLUS-DISC • Kagetsu Tohya • Melty Blood • Melty Blood Re-ACT • Melty Blood Act Cadenza • Melty Blood Actress Again • Hana no Miyako |
| Remake Works |
| Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- • Melty Blood: Type Lumina • Tsukihime -The other side of red garden- |
| Terms |
| Advantage • Age of Gods • Ahnenerbe • Bajiquan • Church • Dead Apostle • Demons • Demon Hunter Organization • Familiar • Magecraft • Magical Girl • Marble Phantasm • Mystic Eyes of Death Perception • Reality Marble • Psychic • Tohno • True Ancestor • Vampire |