What the…Bright Shadow coming in English!

Didn't see that one coming!
Didn't see that one coming!

I only discovered this because I got the URL of the official site as a blog hit. That’s right it turns out that Bright Shadow is coming in English and licensed by no other than….GamepotUSA! 😯  It’s pretty weird since Gamania Japan has the license to the Japanese one, but Gamepot USA is picking up the English one o_O. Hmm haha I don’t know what to think. I’ve not really kept up with the Japanese bright shadow much but from what I saw basically their only updates were lottery items and the lottery in BS is really terrible – you only get 1 piece of an outfit and you have the chance of getting a piece of an outfit that only lasts for 7 days so it’s not even permanent! @_@ In addition to the terrible TERRIBLE physics and clipping, as well as pretty much no places to save so you gotta keep running back & forth and the lack of WASD…make this a pretty crappy game hahaha. But maybe they improved it recently? I doubt it though to be honest. Oh well I suppose this will attract some kind of an audience, maybe I’ll sign up for a closed beta for shits & giggles and compare the two or something.

Isn’t it funny how all these MMOs that I tried in Japan are suddenly getting licensed? Are game developers reading my blog? 😆

Edit: The Game Features page lists “eye dye” and “Gender free armor” wut? I’m 100% sure that I’ve gotten male pants dropped from a monster before and I have to give them to JP and vice versa. Did they implement a ton of new shit in the last 3 months or something? Guess we’ll have to see!

15 thoughts on “What the…Bright Shadow coming in English!”

  1. nah I didn’t play it yet…it uses gameguard which is notorious for being crap so uh I decide to pass for now. I’d rather just play pangya & otome games ^^;

  3. uff I hope it’ll not be that bad..
    My heart is a little more at rest when u said that there won’t be ip block.. 🙂
    And I’ve just read on official us web site(brightshadow.gamepotusa.com) that rest of the ppl will get cb keys at 9th October so we still have a chance to get it! ;D I hope that u will give me your IGN when u get in(whether it’ll be cb or ob) ;p
    anyway if ob won’t come at 2009 I still have some alternatives like Emil Chronicle or something else..did u plaid Emil? and if u plaid it can u tell it’s a good game or.. ?

  4. nope I never got an email – so I guess I never got a closed beta key after all. Oh well *shrug* I’ll just have to try out the open beta whenever that is (if I still care by then lol)

    And yes everything you mentioned pretty much answers your question. I don’t expect a euro block unless they have Bright Shadow Europe which I have not heard of.

  5. us servers inferior? how come? higher lags? more slacking GMs than in jp version? xD
    about hackers/botters/brazilian.. if GMs will do their jobs right it should be playable.. or maybe ther’s so munch hack stuff out there that GMs don’t have munch chance..(?) ;p
    idk if i’ll be able to play in cb..i haven’t gained the key yet.. ;( but I definitely be in ob, especially if it comes in current year.. BUT I’m from eu and I still know nothing about ip-block. I hope it’s not implemented ;p
    ps: did u gained the cb key?

  6. Winter> I do plan to at least try it out, just because I want to see if there’s anything I missed from the JP version because I couldn’t read the kanji (like the whole crafting thing pretty much flew over my head.) I did sign up for the closed beta. I dunno how long I’ll last though since even the JP version only entertained me for 2 weeks and us servers tend to be inferior to JP ones (and it’s only a matter of time before hackers/botters/brazilian script kiddies invade it..)

  7. oh and if u change your mind about quitting BS you are welcome to contact me via myanimelist_net_/_profile_/_Alefi for example 🙂
    that way we will be in touch and be able to meet in the game someday..in ob(i’ve heard that ob will come in this year, 2009! =D)or even in cb if I’ll manage to get in..

  8. I can’t wait for English version though I don’t know if I could actually play it because I’m from EU.. any clues?
    And is Bright Light better than Lucent Heart??(or it’s exactly opposite?)
    PS: I hope they already fixed the problems u r talked about on “Why I Am Quitting Bright Shadow.” topic.. but it’s probably only my dreams.
    I hope u will back to the game or introduce as a better game ,that’s a thought

  9. I thought I would post once more to answer your question about gender free outfits.

    They have recently been giving out gender free outfits in the GASH store. I do not think that that is what they are actually talking about though. All the armor in Bright Shadow JP is gender free. The thing that you picked up was a actual outfit peice. Some quests have monsters that drop these kinds of things, so getting some of those outfits from the GASH lottery system is not the only way.

  10. Oh, and just to add one more thing. Not everything is only a 7 day limit. Most all my stuff is unlimited time limit. I have more outfits than I can carry in two character’s storage. Gold in the game is not hard to get once you get to a fairly decent level.

  11. I’ve been playing the Japanese version for about 3 2+ years now, and I like this game better than any other I have tried.

    The lottery system may seem bad, but when I was playing enough people bought things through the lottery that I could buy anything I wanted from others with regular gold.

    I am glad to see that it is coming out in English.

  12. I may try this out. I’ve been itching for a monster-slashing mmo for a while. I hope the requirements will be fine with my shitty computer lmao.

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