Shining Tears

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Shining Tears
System(s): PlayStation 2
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Nextech
Supporting companies: Salamander Factory (enemy character design)
Genre: RPG
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 2004-11-03 ¥6,800 (7,140)6,800 (7,140) SLPM-65773 JP (The Best) 2005-11-02 ¥2,800 (2,940)2,800 (2,940) SLPM-74218 US 2005-03-22 $39.9939.99 SLUS-21063 KR 200x KR (BigHit) 2008-04-17 AS 2005 SLAJ-25056

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Shining Tears (シャイニング･ティアーズ) is an entry in the Shining series of games. It was released exclusively for the PlayStation 2 in 2004.

Production credits

• Original World Concept, Coordinating Producer: Tsuyoshi Sawada
• Main Character Design: Tony
• Enemy Character Design:
  • SALAMANDER FACTORY: Yoshitaka Tamaki, Kiyofumi Hino
• Game Development: NEXTECH
• Game Producer: Katsuji Aoyama, Yoshitaka Maki
• Director: Daisuke Tajima
• Game Design: Fumio Shimoyama
• Story: Tokuji Komine
• Main Programmer: Yasunori Gotoh
• Programmers: Daisuke Haga, Hayato Ikeda, Shin Ishida, Hiroyuki Horita
• Design: Ken Sasaki, Yoshikazu Yamaki
• Script: Masayuki Ishikawa, Teppei Suzuki, Tetsuo Nakagawa, Kotoe Miyake
• Sound: Kaoru Okada, Takuya Yokota
• Art Director: Yoshiki Ito
• Associate Art Director: Yukari Miki
• Art Creation: Chie Ohta
• Artists: Yusuke Tsubouchi, Kazuhiro Nagata, Susumu Higashitsuji, Takafumi Nakata, Sayaka Yamada, Akira Okamoto, Masaru Minokawa
• Effects: Kenji Demura, Tomohjiro Ohnuki
• 2D Graphics: Nozomi Ohtawa, Makiko Takahasi, Takahide Saitoh
• Animators: Masato Sekiguchi, Kohei Takahashi, Shigeru Komatsuzaki, Jiro Yagi
• Character Producer: Shusaku Chamoto
• Character Directors: Shimmei Kawahara, Syozi Okada
• Animators: Yoshiki Hanawa, Yurika Ohashi, Takeo Niikura, Toshiyuki Kuroia, Miho Obara, Koichi Tsumori, Hiroki Morikawa, Nobuyoshi Satoh, Hiromi Tabuchi, Katsuo Sano, Takeshi Kuromori, Manabu Takahashi, Kazue Tsukamoto, Naho Shimoyama
• Character Production Assistant: Kenichi Yamada
• Background Scenery Producer: Koji Takeuchi
• Background Production Manager: Osamu Taniguchi
• Background Scenery Directors: Yukihiro Yokoyama, Mari Tanaka
• Backgrounds: Miwako Hashimoto, Iring Sha, Yasuhiro Yamane, Hiroshi Nitta, Ayumi Shimazu, Hanae Baba, Hiromi Kawashima, Seiji Sugawara
• Character Portraits: Hiroshi Nagahama, Takao Maki
• Character Portrait Cleanup: Yutaka Sakamoto
• Character Portrait CG: Siji Ito
• Animation:
  • PALM STUDIO:
    • Storyboard Direction: Akitoshi Yokoyama
    • Character Design Art Director: Masashi Okumura
    • Original Artwork:' Gousei Oda, Takao Maki, Shigeru Kimishima, Hiroshi Masuda, Kouichi Arai, Hiroshi Shimizu, Masahiro Andoh, Mariko Aoki, Satoru Minoshima, Kazuya Saiutoh
    • Additional Artwork: Kumiko Ohtani, Reina Igawa, Kiyoshi Nouchi, Mitsunori Murata, Tomoko Fuki
    • Video: Kumiko Ohtani, Ritsuko Shiina, ANIME TOROTORO, STUDIO TAKURANKE
    • Art: Mutsuo Koseki, Kazuo Oga, Katsu Nozaki, Masanori Kikuchi
    • Finishing: VENET
    • Photography: ASAHI PRODUCTION
    • Director of Photography: Eiji Tsuchida
• Ending Animation:
  • Ending Art Continuity: Akitoshi Yokoyama
  • Ending Direction: Toshiyasu Kokawa
  • Ending Artwork: Kouichi Arai, Takao Maki
  • Photography: BUYU
  • Animation Producer: Katsumi Yamaguchi
  • Project Management: Masahiro Kameya
  • Production Manager: Jun Hirata, Kayoko Taguchi
• Marketing Director: Toyohisa Hiwatari
• Publicity: Tomoni Kiyono
• Promotion: Ken Ohsaki
• Sales Promotion: Yoko Fukazawa, Tohru Yasuda, Takehiro Yoshida
• Advertising Scene Director: Ikuo Ishizaka
• Marketing Research: Naofumi Shioya, Noriko Hashimoto, Yoriaki Toraiwa
• Packaging and Manual Direction: Yoshihiro Sakuta, Hisakazu Nakagawa, Satoru Ishigami, Colin Restall
• QA Testing: Junichi Shimizu, Akira Nishikawa, Akira Teresawa, Akinobu Koechi, Satoshi Yamagata, Sou Ishida, Shinya Nagaoka, Daisuke Suzuki
• Gameplay Balancing:
  • SARUGAKUCHOU: Tohru Hashimoto, Naoya Kojima, Atsuhito Watanabem Eiko Kawakubo, Makoto Kohatsu, Daisuke Toda
• Supervisor: Kazuhiko Yoshida
• Production Cooperation: Youichi Shimosato
• Special Thanks: Yukio Sugino, Hiroyuki Miyazaki, Junichirou Takahashi, Masaya Konya, Masaaki Yamada, Akihiko Etori, Fumitaka Shibata, Hiroshi Murasaki, Kazuhiko Yamada, Hideaki Ohta, Yuichiro Kubo, Shinichi Kobori (GEN), Miho Sugawara (GEN), Hirotsugu Kawasaki, Ipponbaba Nanzan

• Shining Series Executive Director: Tadashi Takezaki
• Executive Producer: Hisao Oguchi

Sega of America

• President and COO: Hideaki Irie
• Localization Producer: Kevin Frane
• Associate Localization Producer: Martin Caplan
• Supervising Producer: Jason Kuo
• Director of Product Development: Osamu Shibamiya
• QA Project Lead: Demetrius Griffin
• Testers: Lee Frohman, Sandra Lew, Kenny Robinson, Matt Trudell
• Product Marketing Manager: Heather Guzenda, Ami Blaire
• Senior Media Specialist: Teri Higgins
• VP of Entertainment Marketing: Scott Steinberg
• Director, Web Development: Chris Olson
• Public Relations: Bret Blount, Ethan Einhorn

Sega of Japan

• International Business and Product Development: Yukiko Kato, Shinobu Shindo
• Presented By: SEGA®
• © SEGA CORPORATION, 2004

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In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: Shining Tears/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Main article: Shining Tears/Promotional material.

Merchandise

Main article: Shining Tears/Merchandise.

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source

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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 62 Play (US) NTSC-U 65

	63
Based on 2 reviews

Shining Tears

PlayStation 2, US
Cover
Disc Manual

PlayStation 2, JP
Cover
Disc

PlayStation 2, JP (PS2 the Best)
Cover
Disc

PlayStation 2, AS†
Cover
Disc

PlayStation 2, KR
Cover

PlayStation 2, KR (Big Hit)
Cover

Technical information

Main article: Shining Tears/Technical information.

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 abe1a57e MD5 ec9efb2db13a5554492e6d21e3df078e SHA-1 0b5f38fa9c47ef6abbf8e4681c6b9e497bcd65f0	1,680,670,720		DVD-ROM (JP)	SLPM-65773 / SLPM-74218 (V1.01)
?	CRC32 01dc8f57 MD5 14ca2902af3f79213e677f45650464b2 SHA-1 04c700b81ae4db68b8032ac328102b0c7219cd1e	1,573,158,912		DVD-ROM (US)	SLUS-21063 (V1.00)
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1		2004-10-20	DVD-R				Page

External links

• Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): PlayStation 2
• Shining Tears on PlayStation.com: JP, JP (PS2 the Best), US, KR (Big Hit)