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Xuan-Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains

This Game is one of the most popular RPGs in the Chinese Speaking Area and has won many awards around Asia. The game story takes place in an era of collision between East and West, covering a wide range…

4 December 1999

Xuan-Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains is an adventure developed by SOFTSTAR Entertainment, released 4 December 1999 on Nintendo Switch, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Xuan-Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains is

Xuan-Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains is an adventure game developed by SOFTSTAR Entertainment and released in 1999. It is available on Nintendo Switch, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The story opens in Venice with Septem (賽特), a Frankish knight and covert intelligence operative of mixed descent from Gaul who was the lieutenant to Pepin the Younger. Septem possessed an heirloom bronze vessel with an eastern design, which was in fact the Monster Fusion Vessel. He had heterochromic pupils of blue and brown, garnering discrimination and distrust from his peers and fellow knights over his somewhat Eastern appearance. Miles (麥爾斯) (the reincarnation of Satan whose memories and innate powers had not yet been fully awakened), a knight-commander under the guidance of the cleric Cornelius (康那里士) (the Dread Lord of Hell in disguise), was the polar opposite of his rival Septem…
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How it plays

Its themes are fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Xuan-Yuan Sword series

Xuan-Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains is the fourth of 12 entries we hold in the Xuan-Yuan Sword series. It arrived 5 years after Xuan-Yuan Sword: Dance of the Maple Leaves. The next entry was Xuan-Yuan Sword 3: The Scar of the Sky in 2000.

See all 12 Xuan-Yuan Sword games in release order →

What it launched against

Xuan-Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains launched on 4 December 1999, within three weeks of Unreal Tournament, Pokémon Gold Version, Pokémon Silver Version and Quake III Arena. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Unreal Tournament, Pokémon Gold Version, Pokémon Silver Version, Quake III Arena.

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When did Xuan-Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains come out?
Xuan-Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains was released on 4 December 1999 for Nintendo Switch, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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