Country | United States |
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Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Charles Scribner's Sons |
Publication date | 1922 |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Preceded by | This Side of Paradise (1920) |
Followed by | The Great Gatsby (1925) |
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The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after 'the Great War' and in the early 1920s.[1][2] As in his other novels, Fitzgerald's characters in this novel are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The work generally is considered to be based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with his wife Zelda Fitzgerald.[1]
Plot summary[edit]
The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, and his courtship and relationship with his wife Gloria Gilbert. It describes his brief service in the Army during World War I, the couple's post-war partying life in New York, and his later alcoholism.[1][3] Gloria and Anthony's story deals with the hardships of a relationship, especially when each character has a tendency to be selfish.
Toward the end of the novel, Fitzgerald summarizes the plot and his intentions in writing it, even referencing his own first novel, when a financially successful writer friend tells Anthony:
You know these new novels make me tired. My God! Everywhere I go some silly girl asks me if I've read This Side of Paradise. Are our girls really like that? If it's true to life, which I don't believe, the next generation is going to the dogs. I'm sick of all this shoddy realism. I think there's a place for the romanticist in literature.[4]
Characters[edit]
Anthony Patch: He is an heir to his grandfather's large fortune, and is unmotivated to work, though he tries various careers. He is entranced by Gloria and falls in love with her immediately. He is drafted into the army but does not see active service. Throughout the novel he compensates for a lack of vocation with parties and increasing alcoholism. His expectations of future wealth make him powerless to act in the present.
Gloria Gilbert: A beauty who takes Anthony's heart, breaking a heart or two along the way. She is a socialite but entertains notions of becoming an actress. Gloria is self-absorbed but loves Anthony. Her personality revolves around her beauty and a (not unjustified) belief that this makes her more important than everyone else. She simultaneously loves Anthony and hates him. Like Anthony, she is incapable of being in the present because she cannot imagine a future beyond her first flower of beauty.
Richard 'Dick' Caramel: Richard is an aspiring author and one of Anthony's best friends. During the course of the book he publishes his novel The Demon Lover and basks in his glory for a good amount of time after publication. He is Gloria's cousin and the one who brought Anthony and Gloria together.
Mr. Bloeckman: Bloeckman is a movie producer who is in love with Gloria and who hopes she will leave Anthony for him. Gloria and Bloeckman had a relationship in the works when Gloria and Anthony were introduced. He is a friend of the family, but Gloria falls for Anthony instead. He continues to be friends with Gloria, giving Anthony some suspicion of an affair.
Dorothy 'Dot' Raycroft: Dorothy is the woman that Anthony has an affair with while training for the army. She is a lost soul looking for someone to share her life with. She falls in love with Anthony despite learning that he is married, causes problems between Gloria and Anthony, and spurs Anthony's decline in mental health.
Themes[edit]
The Great Gatsby
The Beautiful and Damned is a morality tale, a meditation on love, money and decadence, and a social documentary. It concerns the characters' disproportionate appreciation of and focus on their past, which tends to consume them in the present.[3] The theme of absorption in the past also continues through much of Fitzgerald's later works, perhaps best summarized in the final line of his 1925 novel The Great Gatsby: 'So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past', which is inscribed on Fitzgerald's tombstone shared with Zelda in Maryland.[1]
According to Fitzgerald critic James West, The Beautiful and Damned is concerned with the question of 'vocation'—what does one do with oneself when one has nothing to do? Fitzgerald presents Gloria as a woman whose vocation is nothing more than to catch a husband. After her marriage to Anthony, Gloria's sole vocation is to slide into indolence; her husband's sole vocation is to wait for his inheritance, during which time he slides into alcoholism.[5]
Publication history[edit]
Fitzgerald wrote The Beautiful and Damned quickly in the winter and spring of 1921–22 while Zelda was pregnant with their daughter,[2] following editorial suggestions from his friend Edmund Wilson and his editor Max Perkins.[1] Chapters of the book were serialized in Metropolitan Magazine in late 1921, and in March 1922, the book was published. Following his best-selling This Side of Paradise, Scribner's prepared an initial print run of 20,000 copies, and mounted an advertising campaign. It sold well enough to warrant additional print runs reaching 50,000 copies.[1]
Fitzgerald dedicated the novel to the Irish writer Shane Leslie, George Jean Nathan, and Maxwell Perkins 'in appreciation of much literary help and encouragement'.[6]
Originally called by Fitzgerald The Flight of the Rocket as a working-title, he had divided it pre-publication into three major parts: 'The Pleasant Absurdity of Things', 'The Romantic Bitterness of Things', and 'The Ironic Tragedy of Things'.[1] As published, however, it consists of three, untitled 'Books' of three chapters each:[7]
- Book One
- 1. – Anthony Patch
- 2. – Portrait of a Siren
- 3. – The Connoisseur of Kisses
- Book Two
- 1. – The Radiant Hour
- 2. – Symposium
- 3. – The Broken Lute
- Book Three
- 1. – A Matter of Civilization
- 2. – A Matter of Aesthetics
- 3. – No Matter!
The first book tells the story of the first meeting and courtship of a beautiful and spoiled couple, Anthony and Gloria, madly in love, with Gloria ecstatically exclaiming: 'mother says that two souls are sometimes created together—and in love before they're born.'[8]
Book two covers the first three years of their married life together, with Anthony and Gloria vowing to adhere to
'The magnificent attitude of not giving a damn...for what they chose to do and what consequences it brought. Not to be sorry, not to lose one cry of regret, to live according to a clear code of honor toward each other, and to seek the moment's happiness as fervently and persistently as possible.'[9]
The final book recounts Anthony's disinheritance, just as the U.S. enters World War I; his year in the army while Gloria remains home alone until his return; and the couple's rapid, final decline into alcoholism, dissolution and ruin – 'to the syncopated beat of the Jazz Age'.[1]
At the end, Anthony Patch shows some of the same revisionism as his grandfather in the opening chapter, describing his great wealth as a necessary consequence of his character rather than to circumstance. Fitzgerald writing in the closing lines of the novel:
'Only a few months before people had been urging him to give in, to submit to mediocrity...But he had known that he was justified in his way of life—and he had stuck it out staunchly...'I showed them...It was a hard fight, but I didn't give up and I came through!'[10]
Reception[edit]
Louise Field, writing in The New York Times, found the novel showed Fitzgerald to be talented, but labeled him too pessimistic. She said she hoped he 'will some day acquire a less one-sided understanding'.[11]
Adaptations[edit]
A film adaptation in 1922, directed by William A. Seiter, starred Kenneth Harlan as Anthony Patch and Marie Prevost as Gloria.[12]
There is a French and a German translation.[13]
In 2016, Scarlett Johansson was reported to have been cast as Zelda Fitzgerald in a biopic of the Fitzgeralds titled The Beautiful and the Damned.[14]
Musician G-Eazy titled one album after the novel and based a number of the song concepts on what was going on in the book and in his life.
Notes[edit]
Christina Ricci plays Zelda Fitzgerald in the Amazon show Z, The Beginning of Everything.
References[edit]
- ^ abcdefghBruccoli, Matthew J. – Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Carroll & Graf, New York, 1992.
- ^ abMilford, Nancy – Zelda: A Biography, Harper & Row, New York, 1970.
- ^ abPerosa, Sergio (1965). 'The Beautiful and Damned'. The Art of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. LCCN65-11463.
- ^Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Beautiful and Damned, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1922 – pg. 421.
- ^James West – The Perfect Hour: The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, Random House, New York, 2005, pg. 48–51.
- ^The Beautiful and Damned, p. iv.
- ^The Beautiful and Damned, p. v.
- ^The Beautiful and Damned, p.131.
- ^The Beautiful and Damned, p.226.
- ^The Beautiful and Damned, p.449.
- ^Maunsell Field, Louise (March 5, 1922). 'Latest Works of Fiction'. The New York Times.
- ^Seiter, William. 'The Beautiful and Damned (1922)'. The New York Times.
- ^Winters, Marion (2004). 'German Translations of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned. A Corpus-based Study of Modal Particles as Features of Translators' Style'. In Kemble, Ian (ed.). Using Corpora and Databases in Translation: Proceedings of the Conference Held on 14th November 2003 in Portsmouth. London: University of Portsmouth. pp. 71–89. ISBN1861373651.
- ^'Scarlett Johansson set to play F. Scott Fitzgerald's flapper wife Zelda in movie about her rocky relationship with the author'.
Sources[edit]
- West, James L.W., III (2002). 'The Question of Vocation in This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned'. In Prigozy, Ruth (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 48–56. ISBN0-521-62447-9.
External links[edit]
Wikisource has original text related to this article: |
- The Beautiful and Damned at Project Gutenberg E-text.
- The Beautiful and Damned, available at Internet Archive, scanned book. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922).
- The Beautiful and Damned public domain audiobook at LibriVox
Gloria Union: Twin Fates in Blue Ocean | |
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Developer(s) | Sting |
Publisher(s) | Atlus |
Designer(s) | Hikaru Yasui (Producer) Hiroshi Konishi (Character Design) Eiko Tameshige (Character Design) Sunaho Tobe(Card Design) Shigeki Hayashi (Composer) |
Series | Dept. Heaven |
Platform(s) | PlayStation Portable |
Release | |
Genre(s) | Tactical role-playing game |
Mode(s) | Single player |
Gloria Union: Twin Fates in Blue Ocean is a tactical role-playing game for the PlayStation Portable, developed by Sting Entertainment and published by Atlus. It is a spinoff to Yggdra Union, and including Yggdra Unison and Blaze Union is the fourth installment in the Union subseries to Dept. Heaven. It was unveiled in Famitsu magazine in late March 2011 and released in June.[1]
Gloria Union does not take place in the world of Ancardia, and so its connections to the other Union games and the Dept. Heaven series itself are unknown.
- 2Characters
- 3Gameplay
- 5Merchandise
Story[edit]
Thousands of years ago, a great kingdom called Euforia flourished making use of a power source known as 'Will'.
Through the centuries, Euforia developed many customs based on the use of Will, but when one day they realized that their civilization would soon come to an end, they poured all their Will into crystals in order to leave a record of their culture behind. After this, Euforia sank to the bottom of the ocean.
In the present day, with the ocean now taking up over half of the world, the seas became populated with many pirates. Those pirates, hearing the legend of the crystals, began to search the ocean for clues to their whereabouts.
Among those pirates was one young boy dreaming of greatness.[2]
Characters[edit]
Allies[edit]
- Ishut (イシュトIshuto)
- Voiced by: Hiro Shimono
- The protagonist, a hot-blooded youth who dreams of becoming a famous pirate. He wields a blade nearly the size of his body, and travels with his childhood friend Pinger in search of treasure. Put kindly, he is naive; more frankly, he is immature and bad at making judgments. Ishut is not particularly good at dealing with his own emotions. Although he has no memory of it, Ishut is from Lukia, and alongside his brother Ashley is the reincarnation of the ruler of Euforia, giving him the power to unlock the special Euforian cards from the lost crystals. His unit class is 'Innocent'.[2]
- Pinger (ピンガーPingaa)
- Voiced by: Emiri Katou
- A cait sith and Ishut's childhood friend, she has a pair of black cat ears and tail. Despite being much calmer and more intelligent than Ishut, she still follows his lead rather than vice versa, calling him 'Aniki'. Pinger was not born as a beastman; rather, she was a human street urchin kidnapped and experimented on by Tracey, who abandoned Pinger upon discovering that beastmen naturally existed. After this incident, Pinger was rescued from Velgas' bullying by Ishut and has followed him ever since. She enjoys making cat puns, and tends to end her sentences with meowing noises. Her unit class is based on the Ax Battler generic units.[2]
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- Elisha (エリーシャEriisha)
- Voiced by: Shizuka Ito
- One of the members of the Gloria pirate band, who is famous for dual-wielding pistols. She works as the captain's assistant and has problems communicating with Ishut, annoyed by the way he fools around with all the girls. She is interested in him, but Ishut does not notice that. She is seventeen years old, but because of how long she's spent traveling the world she tends to seem more mature than her years.[2] Elisha is advertised as a tsundere character. Her unit class is 'Gunner'.
- Ruru (ルルゥRuruu)
- Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa
- A mysterious woman attempting to guide Ishut to Euforia. She has a very airy personality and wields a staff. Sometimes she does things that seem strange to other people, such as eating crushed historical artifacts, and tends to act younger than she looks, which takes the rest of the party off guard.[2] She is knowledgeable about and can sense the power of Will. Unbeknownst to Ruru herself, she is the artificial human Symphonia, and is unable to access her full power and knowledge because she is in safety mode. Her unit class is 'Uranus'.
- Zazarland (ザザーランドZazaarando)
- Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara
- Elisha's father, who is actually the captain of the Gloria band. While a steadfast leader often referred to as 'old man' by his crew, his freewheeling lifestyle also causes him to be rather aimless and his drinking habit makes his daughter worry.[2] Zazarland was once a general in the Lukian army, but he left to become a pirate after a certain incident seventeen years ago. His unit class is 'Captain' and he wields an axe in battle.
- Locomoco (ロコモコRokomoko)
- Voiced by: Ai Nonaka
- A young magical girl who came to this world from Yumira, which she calls the 'country of magic', in search of Euforia's secret weapon, Symphonia. She does not seek it to take it, but rather because she just wants to see it after discovering the legends of Euforia. Despite her great childishness, her magical ability and knowledge are top class.[2] Her costume and magic have a candy motif.
- Fiebee (フィービーFiibii)
- Voiced by: Ayaka Shimizu
- An Undine from Chantier who came to foreign waters in order to find a way to help her polluted homeland. She was raised to be a knight from a youthful age, and believes she was born solely to help defeat Chantier's enemy, the Lukia Empire. Because of her youth, Fiebee has never actually seen her country in its golden age.[2] She is advertised as a yandere character.
- Raspberry (ラズベリーRazuberii)
- Voiced by: Minori Chihara
- A vampire who left her world in search of an escaped criminal. Though she is only sixteen years old, she is so elite that she is allowed to move on her own. The wings on her back are fakes and simply tools to help her fly, which she was given when she was assigned her task.[2] Raspberry acts as a psychopomp and helps to oversee dead sinners who are working to repent for their crimes.
- Minesota Grey (ミネソタ・グレイMinesota Gurei)
- Voiced by: Shinji Kawada
- A lance-wielding archaeologist researching Euforia.[2] He is a stickler for manners, but has a bad temper. His name is a reference to Indiana Jones.
- Eater (イータIita)
- Voiced by: Minori Chihara
- A traveling minstrel with a split personality that changes based on the time of day. She claims to be searching for powerful men to inspire her. Her songs recall the heroics of Gulcasa and his men, who she traveled with in Blaze Union.[2]
- Pamela (パメラPamera)
- Voiced by: Ai Nonaka
- A witch from Yumira who travels various worlds in order to research a number of mysteries. She is the Dept. Heaven series mascot and has appeared in every Dept. Heaven episode and Union series game since Yggdra Union.[2]
- Anne Cormack (アンヌ・コーマックAnnu Koomakku)
- Voiced by: Aki Nakajima
- An infamously greedy female pirate who uses her sex appeal as a weapon.[2] She first appears attempting to collect the bounty on Ishut, and becomes rivals with Elisha.
- Yggdra (ユグドラYugudora)
- Voiced by: Mai Nakahara
- The leader of the Fantasinia Traveling Band, a group of bounty hunters. She closely resembles the Yggdra of Yggdra Union and Blaze Union, and wields the Centurio Buster, a massive gatling gun. She is not the same Yggdra as the one in the rest of the series, but is rather an analogue with a similar past. Her unit class is 'Avenger'.[2]
- Gangr (ガングGangu)
- Voiced by: Naoya Nosaka
- A small yellow robot that was created as a prototype to Symphonia and sent to guard the ruins that hide the earth crystal. He was thrown into the sea by the invading Lukia military, and joins the party after being fished out of the water by Ishut. Gangr is only capable of speaking the syllables of his own name when not chanting card incantations, but Ruru can understand him.
- Kamuru (カミュルKamyuru)
- Voiced by: Ryouta Asari
- A young but promising Lukian knight who joins Gloria to save his own life after accidentally disgracing himself. He is ordinarily shy and polite, but always shouts at the top of his lungs on the battlefield so that he will not lose heart. Kamuru has a strong admiration for Elisha.
Enemies[edit]
- Blackmore (ブラックモアBurakkumoa)
- Voiced by: Naoya Nosaka
- Leader of a group of pirates called the 'Black Fang' that are enemies to the Gloria band.[2] He is the primary antagonist for the first three chapters of the game.
- Velgas (ベルガスBerugasu)
- Voiced by: Anri Katsu
- A childhood rival to Ishut and Pinger, who has known Ishut for ten years. He resents Ishut for being naturally strong and not having to resort to dirty tricks to win, and joins Black Fang to get a leg up on him. Velgas has a crush on Pinger that he is only able to express through bullying her.
- Tracey Cormack (トレイシー・コーマックToreishii Koomakku)
- Voiced by: Eri Gouda
- The leader of the Leverage Merchants, a woman with heterochromia. She deals in 'rarities' and uses alchemy to artificially create things that do not naturally exist in order to sell them. Her powers are great enough even to raise the dead. Tracey is Anne's older sister.
- Rogan (ローガンRougan)
- Voiced by: Tsuguo Mogami
- The escaped undead criminal Raspberry is searching for, who was a famous pirate in life. He desires to live as a pirate again.[2]
- Gariored (ガリオレッドGarioreddo)
- Voiced by: Kosuke Takaguchi
- Prime Minister of the Lukia Empire. He believes that power itself is justice, and even uses the young Emperor as his tool to accomplish his means. He is the wire-puller behind the Euforia Plan. Wears glasses and wields a massive gun-sword.[2]
- Melanie (メラニーMeranii)
- Voiced by: Aki Nakajima
- One of the generals of the Lukia military, known as the 'God of Protection'.[2] Wears her red hair in a braid similar to Aegina's.
- Garm (ガルムGarumu)
- Voiced by: Tsuguo Mogami
- One of the generals of the Lukia military, known as the 'Garm of the Divine Lance'.[2] A very reliable man. A knight who carries a shield with the device of a wolf's head and front leg.
- Ashley (アシュレイAshurei)
- Voiced by: Hiro Shimono
- The youthful emperor of Lukia, actually Ishut's older twin brother. He is used as a puppet by Gariored, and due to Gariored's strict training and abuse, Ashley has lost the ability to feel and express most emotions. He resents Ishut's freedom and has a strong desire to become happy.
- Enryetta (エンリエッタEnrietta)
- Voiced by: Mai Nakahara
- The president of United Elmare, a group of nations who have made an alliance to defeat Lukia. Noting that peace can often only be achieved through sacrifice, she has determined to choose those sacrifices herself for the sake of a peaceful world. Enryetta appears to be personally acquainted with both Gariored and Zazarland.
- Giselle (ジゼルJizeru)
- Voiced by: Ayaka Shimizu
- The queen of Chantier, the Undine nation. Despite having fought with Lukia for a hundred years, she has recently begun to lose the will to fight after having watched her homeland become polluted with war debris. Giselle eventually joins Elmare.
- Ajo Grafor (アジョー・グラフォーAjou Gurafou)
- Voiced by: Ryouta Asari
- A mad scientist who is using human experimentation to try to create functional cyborgs. His favorite creation is the Ruru Mk-II, a robotic, emotionless doppelganger of Ruru.
- Kyra (キーラKiira)
- Voiced by: Shizuka Ito
- The sole survivor of Euforia's destruction, who has been kept in a dormant state for almost a millennium. Kyra has a masculine style of speech, a feminine style of dress, and is both referred to and treated systematically as an intergendered character. Kyra wields a scythe and appears to be connected to this era's Tactics Cards.[2]
Gameplay[edit]
Like Blaze Union before it, Gloria Union inherits the same card system, turn-based movement, and real-time union combat used in Yggdra Union; it also keeps the Ax Battler class which debuted in Blaze Union.
However, Gloria Union also introduces a number of new cards and classes, as well as new system functions.
Problems with Blaze Union's battle display (such as character statistics being hidden behind speech bubbles during Skill usage) have also been rectified, with Skill-relevant statistics now being displayed at the top of the screen during use.[3]
According to the newly released PV, there will be 48 Tactics Cards, including several cards newly created for this game.[4] Comparatively, Yggdra Union featured 37 cards, while Blaze Union had 39.
In certain game maps, the Gloria pirate ship itself is available as a mobile cannon battery and piece of crossable terrain.
Gloria Union also contains a hidden feature in certain battlefields which allows the player to swap the formation style of units from male to female and vice versa regardless of their actual gender. A special item is required to do so. Intergendered character Kyra's personal formation overlays the male and female formations, creating a Union radius of 16 squares rather than the usual 8.
Weather[edit]
In addition to the day/evening/night time system, Gloria Union also features three types of weather: Sunny, Rainy, and Foggy. Sunny conditions are the default, whereas rainy weather decreases the power of units aligned to fire and gun-using classes. Fog decreases visibility, which results in the Union matrix being smaller, enemy units' manpower becoming indiscernible in battle, and a high chance of units going into Panic when hit with an enemy charge.
New Generic Classes[edit]
In Gloria Union, the bow-using classes 'Hunter' and 'Assassin' are replaced by gun-wielding classes 'Sniper' and 'Gunner' respectively. Previously Assassin-only card 'Bloody Claw' has been reassigned with the male Sniper units accordingly.
Additionally, the 'Bandit' class has been replaced with 'Pirates', and the 'Fencer' class replaced by 'Chaser'. Like the female-exclusive 'Ax Battler' class that debuted in Blaze Union, a new male-only sword-using class called 'Paladin' and a male-only spear class called 'Sailor' have been added as well.
New Cards[edit]
Fifteen new cards were created for Gloria Union, fourteen of which have been revealed on the official website[2]
- Tidal Wave (destroys all members of the enemy unit except the Head; usable only by characters with strong Will)
- Volcannon (deals damage and inflicts the Fatal Burn status; usable only by characters with strong Will)
- Grand Spear (deals damage and temporarily lowers enemy GEN; usable only by characters with strong Will)
- Burst Wing (deals damage and lowers enemy accuracy; usable only by characters with strong Will)
- Holy (converts enemy Rage Rate into own unit's power, destroys Skill and Rage gauges; usable only by characters with strong Will)
- Magic Shield (nullify enemy Skills for the entire turn; usable only by Staff-wielding female characters)
- Fusillade (deals great damage and knocks out enemy Head; usable only by Elisha)
- Coalesce (combines all subordinate units' power into Head—compare Genocide; usable only by Ruru)
- Tyrant (powers up Head but renders her uncontrollable, breaking Skill gauge—compare Genocide; usable only by Pinger)
- Dreadnought (deals great damage; usable only by Zazarland)
- Salvation (revives all unit members in exchange for knocking out the Head; usable only by Minnesota)
- Meteor (deals great damage to either own unit or enemy; usable only by Locomoco)
- Crucifixion (temporarily stops time for enemy unit; usable only by Raspberry)
- Trickster (uses enemy's Skill against them; usable only by Tracey)
- Megiddo (destroys all enemy units—compare Crusade; usable only by Gariored and Ashley)
To make room for the new cards, all character-exclusive cards used in the previous games are unused except for Coma Karma, Judgment Zero, and Insanity.
Development[edit]
Gloria Union shares its producer and many other team members with Blaze Union, although Radiant Historia's Hiroshi Konishi and Dokapon Kingdom's Eiko Tameshige are handling the character art for this release rather than Rui Kousaki or Satoko Kiyuduki.[1]
Much like Blaze Union before it, Gloria's development was kept secret until its unveiling, unlike Gungnir, which JaJa discussed in its early stages on his blog. 2011 is the third year in which two Sting games have been released in directly consecutive months; 2009 saw the release of Hexyz Force in November and Yggdra Unison in December, and in 2010 the PSP version of Knights in the Nightmare (April) was followed by Blaze Union that May.
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Merchandise[edit]
Preorders of Gloria Union at certain vendors (Fammys, Softmap, Messe Sanoh, Imagine, Gamers, and Medialand) include phone cards with illustrations of Kyra and some of the game's female characters (Pinger, Elisha, Ruru, Ruru, Kyra, and Melanie respectively). In addition to this, preorders at Messe Sanoh's women-oriented vendor include a full set of bromide cards featuring the male cast, a first for the Union series as well as the Dept. Heaven series as a whole.
The game's single-disc soundtrack was released under the SMD itaku label one week after the game's release.[5] Its official strategy guide was printed by Softbank Creative and released on August 3.[6]
Official soundtrack track list[edit]
グロリア・ユニオン オリジナルサウンドトラック | ||
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No. | Title | Length |
1. | 'GLORIA' | 0:43 |
2. | 'To the Glorious Sea (栄光の海へEikou no Umi e)' | 1:05 |
3. | 'Ancient Euforia (古代ユーフォリアKodai Yuuforia)' | 1:21 |
4. | 'Tremble of the Battlefield (戦場の戦慄きSenjou no Wananaki)' | 1:45 |
5. | 'To Victory' | 2:07 |
6. | 'Depart for the Wide Sea! (大海へ出でよ!Taikai e Ide yo!)' | 1:05 |
7. | 'Guerilla Warfare (遊撃戦Yuugekisen)' | 1:04 |
8. | 'Breakthrough - Rescue Tactics (突破・救出作戦Toppa / Kyuushitsu Sakusen)' | 1:10 |
9. | 'Defensive Battle (防衛戦Boueisen)' | 1:10 |
10. | 'Decisive Battle at Sea! (海上決戦!Kaijou Kessen!)' | 1:07 |
11. | 'Fierce Battle! (激突!Gekitou!)' | 1:00 |
12. | 'He Who Defies God (神に抗う人Kami ni Aragau Hito)' | 1:07 |
13. | 'Pirates (海賊たちKaizokutachi)' | 1:15 |
14. | 'Those Fangs Devour the World (その牙、世界を喰らうSono Kiba, Sekai wo Kurau)' | 1:05 |
15. | 'The Enemy Arrives with a Secret Plan (出でる敵、潜む策Ideru Teki, Hisomu Saku)' | 1:10 |
16. | 'The Saint who Embraces Death (屍を抱く聖女Shi wo Idaku Seijo)' | 1:08 |
17. | 'Those who Seek the Light (光を求める者たちHikari wo Motomeru Monotachi)' | 1:09 |
18. | 'History of Holy War (聖戦の系譜Seisen no Keifu)' | 0:44 |
19. | 'Trust in Your Friends (仲間への信頼Nakama e no Shinrai)' | 0:34 |
20. | 'Blue Ocean Boy (蒼海の少年Soukai no Shounen)' | 1:32 |
21. | 'The Guide to Euforia (ユーフォリアへ導く者Yuuforia e Michibikumono)' | 1:18 |
22. | 'My Twin Guns Sing on the Battlefield (双銃は戦場で歌うSoujuu wa Senjou de Utau)' | 1:13 |
23. | 'Supreme Ruler of the Sea (大海の覇者Taikai no Hasha)' | 1:14 |
24. | 'The Cat-Eared Pirate (猫耳の海賊Nekomimi no Kaizoku)' | 1:16 |
25. | 'The Fighting Archaeologist! (戦う考古学者!Tatakau Koukogakusha!)' | 1:19 |
26. | 'Candy Power! (キャンディーパワー!Kyandii Pawaa!)' | 1:18 |
27. | 'The Demon Lance-Wielding Vampire (魔槍を持つ吸血鬼Masou wo Motsu Kyuuketsuki)' | 1:16 |
28. | 'Flowing Pure Will (流れる清廉の意思Nagareru Seiren no Ishi)' | 1:18 |
29. | 'Ga-ga-ga-Gang! (ガガガガング!Gagagagangu!)' | 1:07 |
30. | 'The Golden Destroyer (黄金を纏う破壊者Ougon wo Matou Hakaisha)' | 1:18 |
31. | 'Brave!' | 1:18 |
32. | 'Avaricious Lady Pirate (強欲なる女海賊Gouyokunaru Onna Kaizoku)' | 1:31 |
33. | 'It's the Great Pamela! (パメラ様だわさ!Pamera-sama da wa sa!)' | 1:21 |
34. | 'Beautifully, Fiercely (可憐に、獰猛にKaren ni, Doumou ni)' | 1:33 |
35. | 'They Entrusted Their Dreams to the Sea (大海に夢を託した者達Taikai ni Yume wo Takushita Monotachi)' | 1:06 |
36. | 'Covetous Fangs (垂涎する牙Suizensuru Kiba)' | 1:13 |
37. | 'First-Rate Villainy (極上の悪意Gokujou no Akui)' | 1:13 |
38. | 'Greedy Merchants (欲塗れの商人Yoku Mabure no Shounin)' | 1:04 |
39. | 'On a Straight Rail (逸れないレールの上でSorenai Reeru no Ue de)' | 1:09 |
40. | 'For the Hope of Tomorrow... (明日の希望の為に…Asu no Kibou no Tame ni...)' | 1:21 |
41. | 'The Sacrificed Saint (捧げられた聖女Sasagerareta Seijo)' | 1:17 |
42. | 'Move Out!! (進軍!!Shingun!!)' | 1:12 |
43. | 'The Strongest Unbeatable Heroes (最強にして不破の豪傑Saikyou ni shite Fuha no Gouketsu)' | 1:03 |
44. | 'The Seeker (求める者Motomeru Mono)' | 1:17 |
45. | 'The Power of Euforia (ユーフォリアの力Yuuforia no Chikara)' | 1:19 |
46. | 'Victory! (勝利!Shouri!)' | 0:07 |
47. | 'Disgrace (不屈Fukutsu)' | 0:07 |
48. | 'The Battle Continues (戦いは続くTatakai wa Tsudzuku)' | 0:12 |
49. | 'At the End of the Battle (戦いの果てにTatakai no Hate ni)' | 0:58 |
50. | 'Banquet of Victory (勝利の宴Shouri no Utage)' | 0:07 |
51. | 'Fighting Spirit Sinking to the Depths (深淵へ消える戦意Shinnen e Kieru Seni)' | 0:10 |
52. | 'Drifting Days (流れるままの日々Nagareru Mama no Hibi)' | 1:28 |
53. | 'Power of the Awakened Will (覚醒する意思の力Kakuseisuru Ishi no Chikara)' | 1:21 |
54. | 'Touch and Go (一触即発Isshoku Sokuhatsu)' | 2:03 |
55. | 'Critical Attack and Defense (瀬戸際の攻防Setogiwa no Koubou)' | 1:22 |
56. | 'Tears of the Sea (海の涙Umi no Namida)' | 1:14 |
57. | 'Ship's Log (航海日誌Koukai Nisshi)' | 2:12 |
58. | 'History of Battle (戦いの歴史Tatakai no Rekishi)' | 1:15 |
59. | 'With the Blue Sea... (蒼海と共に…Soukai to Tomo ni...)' | 3:29 |
60. | 'The Sea Route to Glory (栄光へと続く航路…Eikou e to Tsudzuku Kouro)' | 3:18 |
61. | 'Glorious Pirates (栄光の海賊たちEikou no Kaizokutachi) (Unused Track)' | 1:22 |
External links[edit]
- (in Japanese)Official Website
Notes[edit]
- ^ abc'Gloria Union', a new Union title headed for the PSP!, Famitsu, posted 31 March 2011; retrieved 8 April 2011
- ^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuGloria Union official site, retrieved 8 March 2011
- ^'Gloria Union', a new Union title headed for the PSP!, Famitsu, screenshot of Ishut battling a Sailor unit, posted 31 March 2011; retrieved 8 April 2011
- ^'Gloria Union' New PV Announcement, posted 9 May 2011
- ^Amazon product page, retrieved 30 May 2011
- ^Amazon product page, retrieved 23 June 2011