Melty Blood: Type Lumina[c] is a 2D fighting video game released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Windows, and Nintendo Switch.[2] It is the fifth installment in the Melty Blood series and the first main game since Melty Blood Actress Again (2008). It was developed by French-Bread with assistance from Tamsoft and GameLoop, and was published by Lasengle, Aniplex’s video game division originally belonged to Delightworks. The game was released on September 30, 2021. The game is set in 2014, in the new continuity first established by Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon-, ten days before the events of the visual novel, unlike the earlier entries in the Melty Blood series set in 2001, a year after a hypothetical Satsuki Yumizuka route of original Tsukihime and a month after Kagetsu Tohya. Although some of the characters’ storylines alternatively take place during Tsukihime remake games -A piece of blue glass moon- and the upcoming -The other side of red garden-. Unlike the first game in the series, Type Lumina does not have an overarching story with a single point of view. Instead, each character has their own Story Mode that consists of multiple stages, with select encounters accompanied by conversations presented in a visual novel style, and an ending sequence. A Boss Rush story featuring Miyako, unlocks after completing all individual scenarios. Additional scenarios for Arcueid and Ciel, written by acpi based on the draft by Nasu, and a second Boss Rush story focusing on Noel, were added after release. The cutscenes were also updated, displaying dynamic character sprites in addition to their portraits, bringing the presentation closer to Arcade Mode of past Melty Blood games. It also features a crossover storyline between Tsukihime and Fate universes, which concludes in the third and fourth Boss Rush chapters, with Neco-Arc as its overreaching antagonist. In the latter, a silhouette of Kagetsu Tohya’s main heroine Len briefly appears after the credits.
