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Starwing Paradox Project Reveals 8-on-8 Arcade Game

The official website for Sunrise's Starwing Paradox (Hoshi to Tsubasa no Paradox) project revealed on Friday that the project will include an arcade game by Square Enix, slated for release in fall 2018. The game is described as a "high-speed mecha combat game." Sunrise will handle the animation in the game.

Up to 16 players can fight each other in two teams of up to eight players each. The game's cabinet (seen above) is made to look like a cockpit. Players will be able to feel movement matched to the game from the cabinet.

The game will be available for exhibition and testing at the JAEPO 2018 event at the Makuhari Messe event hall in Chiba on February 9-11.

The site will reveal additional information on Saturday.

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Evangelion, Nadia - The Secret of Blue Water, Summer Wars) is designing the characters for the project.

The story takes place on the planet Meguriboshi, a planet "very, very, very far away" from Earth, where the light from Earth doesn't even reach. The planet is split between two kingdoms: "Kō Country A Slegga" and "Va Led Sei Kingdom." Meguriboshi produces a type of living-energy called "Hoshinochi" (lit. Star Blood), and is the reason for the two kingdoms' eternal and ongoing strife. The stars of the battlefield are the "Ae Rial," gigantic weapons developed by the multinational corporation Kizana.

The Ae Rial are equipped with a "Rearide System" that allows them to transmit personalized information between planets. When an "AZ-One" special knight and an alien who has excellent flying skills are paired, only then can the true power of the Ae Rial be unleashed. And another Planet With type of sentient life who have a superior aptitude has been discovered. The name of that planet is: Earth.

The Japanese tagline on the website reads, "The planet around which life revolves, the two Ae Rial (fluttering wings)." The English subtitle on the project's logo reads, "When two planets align and two souls become as one, the path to peace is revealed."

The mechanic designers are Ippei Gyōbu (Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, Gundam: Reconguista in G) and Junya Ishigaki (Xenogears, Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, Gundam Build Fighters). Yoichi Kato (Yo-kai Watch, Aikatsu!) is writing the scripts, and Ryōji Sekinishi (Valvrave the Liberator, Mobile Suit Gundam UC) is collaborating on the world-building. Akio Izutsu (99.9: Criminal Lawyer, Phi-Brain - Kami no Puzzle) is scoring the songs. Sunrise's producer is Naohiroshi Ogata (Mobile Suit Gundam UC, Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt).

The site lists the following cast members: Mikako Komatsu, Ryōko Shiraishi, and Ayaka Suwa.

Source: MoCa News