Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom
Shiness is a half open world role playing game which has in particular a realtime dynamic battlesystem. You will play five characters from different species that are talking in an exclusive language especially…
Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom is an adventure developed by Enigami, released 18 April 2017 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $1.49 at Steam.
What Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom is
Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom is an adventure game developed by Enigami and released in 2017. It was published by Focus Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Play as Chado and his companions, traveling through the Celestial islands on their flying ship. After crash-landing on one of the most hostile of the Celestial islands, you find yourself in the middle of a conflict across multiple kingdoms. However, this volatile situation might find a peaceful outcome, with Chado’s newfound unique ability to perceive and communicate with the ‘Shiness’, a mysterious spirit imbued with magic.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 39 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 30% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 3 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-2400/AMD FX-8320, 4 GB RAM and 1 GB, AMD Radeon HD 6950/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 15GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.49 at Steam, 85% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom launched on 18 April 2017, within three weeks of Prey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and What Remains of Edith Finch. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Prey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, What Remains of Edith Finch.
Official trailer
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