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French studio Enigami has released the first gameplay trailer for its action-RPG Shiness. The game is due out for PC in 2016. Watch the trailer above.

The trailer gives a quick overview of the lands of Mahera, which are fragmented and require the game’s five anthropomorphic heroes to go on a journey to restore them and unify the disparate civilizations.

Each character you can play as has their own abilities that let you deal with obstacles in different ways: “choose to destroy a giant rock blocking your way with pure strength, or use kinetic powers to activate mechanisms that will open a secret door.”

Combat in Shiness is in real-time and will have you mixing melee combos with magic, as well as parries and blocks. You’ll gain experience to level up characters as you progress, learning new skills and spells so as to deal with the greater challenges.

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French game studio Enigami has release new screenshots from its RPG Shiness, which is due out for PC in 2016.

These screenshots show you the game’s five playable characters and with them comes a small profile of each:

• Chado, a young and adventurous Waki able to communicate with a spirit from nature, the Shiness, and who masters the element of Earth
• Poky, an engineering genius able to repair anything mechanical, who is able to manipulate magnetic fields and electrical currents
• Kayenne is a powerful Shelk warrior, who harnesses the psychic gif of Telekinesis; with this power, he may interact with the environment remotely, or paralyze enemies in battle
• Askel is a fearsome mercenary, whose whip is destructive in combat, but is also useful during exploration to retrieve items normally out of reach
• Rosalya use the Fire element to disperse darkness, reveal hidden items or enemies, or inflict heavy damage during combat

Enigami adds that it’s important in Shiness that you understand the role of each character in your team both during exploration and in the 1v1 combat.

“Once in the arena, it's up to you to adopt the best timing for chain punches, kicks, magic attacks and destructive combos,” writes Enigami. “During these duels, your companions can intervene to replace the lead fighter, or help them when required.”

You can also have your teammates heal you and cast spells to boost your strength at the start of every fight.  when your health is down or to cast a spell to boost your strength at the start of every fight. Each character is also assigned “Elemental affinities” that can be used to weaken certain enemy types.

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French studio Enigami has released a new teaser trailer for its RPG Shiness.

The teaser – which you can watch above – has you flying across its “enchanting yet hostile” world alongside its cast of anthropomorphic heroes. Specifically, it goes across the fragmented lands of Mahera, travelling from the flying city of Mantara, to the Adorn plain, as well as the Gromiz caverns.

There are five playable characters in Shiness and each of them offers a different way to deal with the obstacles on your journey – “choose to destroy a giant rock blocking your way with pure strength, or use kinetic powers to activate mechanisms that will open a secret door.”

The other feature of the game you can see in the teaser is the combat, which mixes combos with magic use, as well as parries and blocks as if an arena fighter. You’ll gain experience through combat and completing quests which is used to evolve your characters with new skills and spells.

Shiness is due out for PC in 2016.

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French indie developer Studio Enigami is working with publisher Focus Home Interactive to get the vibrant RPG Shiness out for PC in early 2016.

To celebrate the new partnership, as well as the game being at Gamescom, a new trailer has been released that shows the current state of Shiness.

Shiness has you playing as Chado as he attempts to bring peace to on the most hostile islands that are formed from the fragments of planet Mahera after it collapsed. The island is so hostile due to a conflict between multiple kingdoms but Chado has the ability to community with Shiness, which is a mysterious spirit imbued with magic.

Chado is ed by five companions who you can develop through two skill trees (physical attacks and magic) to unlock new talents and spells throughout the journey. Watch the trailer to get a look at the real-time combat and some of the lands you’ll be able to freely run across.

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Indie RPG Shiness has reached its Kickstarter goal and has even hit two of its stretch goals thus far. With less 40 hours to go until the game’s Kickstarter campaign comes to an end, developer Ynnis Interactive have shared alpha gameplay footage from the title that shows off a work-in-progress area and puzzle.

Shiness is inspired by the sort of dynamic fights you see in manga, combined with the fantasy of role-playing games. You can learn more about the game’s battle system in our previous coverage.

Shiness is in development for PC and its next stretch goal is for PS4 and Xbox One versions.

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Shiness  is an RPG on Kickstarter with a battle system that draws inspiration from Naruto and Dragon Ball. And the manga inspirations don't stop there. Developer Ynnis Interactive have already planned a transmedia strategy that includes a manga storyline to flesh out the game's world. Accordingly, reading the manga and figuring out the scattered clues leads to hidden quests in the game itself.

In Shiness' battle system, players will engage with foes they’ll see while wandering the map and enter into a one-on-one fight to the death. Once in combat, you’ll have to mix and match kicks, punches, spells and other abilities into a combo system to defeat foes. There’s even “Hyper Mode,” special super moves unique to each character.

Allies you bring along—there will be a full party of five to choose from—will stand outside and offer pre-determined such as spells, as will foes. But most of it will be focused on the action-centric fighting. The main man is Chado, an anthropomorphic furry chipmunky-like man from the Waki race.

While he’s the straight up fighter, able to throw a stoneball at foes, each of the other characters also brings something to the table. Rosalya the human, for instance, is a mage who’ll be able to open up paths, detect traps and reveal invisible or hidden enemies and animals.

Yeah, yawn. Unique characters with a special skill. So what, right? It appears the special skills of each character will help out when you’re questing in the world of Mahera. Sure, the quest giver wants you to go get an item from the cave. But how do you do it?

Shiness is suggesting that options include sneaking in and nipping off with it, negotiating with the leader, or just straight up bashing everything’s brains out. Some of this will doubtless be dependent on which characters you pick to bring along. Different choices will lead to reputational changes, different paths and responses from non-playable characters. Shiness even suggests that being diplomatic might be the way to go, with cities expanding and more shops open for trade.

Shiness has about just under two weeks left to go to hit funding for its PC and Mac version, with early stretch goals including porting to the PlayStation 4. You can back it here.

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