Kind-Moon held on July 30 and 31 the Destiny/Grand Order Fes. 2022 ~seventh Anniversary~ occasion, the place a number of bulletins have been made relating to the Nasuverse – Specifically, Neco-Arc and Mash Kyrielight might be added to Melty Blood Kind Lumina as free DLC characters this Summer season.
Mash Kyrielight, additionally known as Shielder, is among the fundamental characters of cell sport Destiny/Grand Order, showing from the start of the story. Seeing FGO is by far the preferred a part of the Nasuverse, many followers believed it was solely a matter of time until a personality from there joined Kind Lumina. Kind-Moon stored issues easy by selecting Mash, FGO’s poster woman and certainly one of its hottest characters.
In the meantime, Neco-Arc is a gag, Tremendous Deformed (Chibi) model of Arcueid Brunestud, one of many fundamental characters of Tsukihime. Neco-Arc was playable within the earlier Melty Blood sport, and reappeared within the PS4, Swap Tsukihime remake, Tsukihime A Piece Of Blue Glass Moon.
It’s additionally attention-grabbing to notice that when Melty Blood Kind Lumina launched in September 2021, Neco-Arc grew to become extra well-liked than ever exterior Japan after being featured in lots of Twitter memes. Neco-Arc is at the moment extra well-liked than Melty Blood/Tsukihime itself, so her addition in Kind Lumina might herald new followers. Personally talking, I feel this is among the few good issues stemming from social media: (youthful) individuals attending to know characters or franchises they’d have by no means encountered in any other case.
You will discover the trailers for Mashu and Neco-Arc under. As traditional, the characters have particular voiced strains for one another, each in intro and in the course of the battle itself. New BGMs and phases are additionally featured.
As a facet be aware, consider Melty Blood Kind Lumina makes use of machine translation for its English promotional materials, so their tweets are sometimes stuffed with small errors. Most notably misgendering the characters.
Kind-Moon additionally announced two extra free characters might be added to Melty Blood Kind Lumina in Winter. Lastly, this Summer season along with Neco-Arc and Mash, the sport may even obtain an replace including new eventualities and cutscenes utilizing the characters’ sprites. Melty Blood Kind Lumina is at the moment on sale on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Swap, and Xbox One.