History VideoGame / ShinessTheLightningKingdom

** Ayron relied on this servants to do the fighting for him in ''The Shiness'' and was a NonActionBigBad, whereas in the game's, he's a powerful MagicKnight the party fights directly.

** Rosalya's hair is pink in the game, while her manga counterpart Rosa's were more purplish. Rosa also had green eyes, while Rosalya's are grey, blue or pink DependingOnTheArtist.

** Rosalya's hair is pink in the game, while her manga counterpart Rosa's were more purplish.

** In the original manga, Chado was an [[BlowYouAway air shi user]] and Kayenne was a [[PlayingWithFire fire shi user]], whereas in the game, Kayenne becomes the party's air shi user and Chado becomes an [[DishingOutDirt earth shi user]], this might have been done to make Chado less similar to [[Characters/NarutoNarutoUzumaki Naruto]], of whom he's basically an {{Expy}}. Chado could also use air shi to give himself SuperSpeed, a power he lacks in the game.

** Overall, the [[MagicByAnyOtherName equivalent of magic]] on Mahera, the shi, has fewer forms in the game: it can't be used for MindControl, there's no [[GravityMaster gravity shi]][[note]]At least none that any character in the game or in ''Crossroad'' is known to be able to use, but this form probably does exist to some extent to explain how the Maherian vehicles and [[AirWhale Mantara]] fly, it's just not mentioned.[[/note]], no [[LightEmUp light shi]] and no steam shi.

* CallingYourAttacks: The characters often shout their spells and techniques' Maherian names when they use them. Bagogue [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this by mentioning that he should give names to his techniques.

* CompositeCharacter: The Shiness Chado meets was known as Vanny in ''The Shiness'' and was the Shiness of air, whereas the Shiness of earth was Terry. In the game, both characters were combined into Terra, who is the Shiness Chado can see as well as the Shiness of earth.

* DependingOnTheArtist: The characters' outfits are often less detailed in animated cutscenes, and the models of some asymmetrical characters are reversed compared to their designs in cutscenes and in-game portraits.

** Expect to see the Adoryan sigil on anything the Adoryans build or wear. This sigil already existed in ''The Shiness'' (in which Adorya was known as Pandora) and was even more common, since it was also the symbol of earth shi.

* AdaptationDyeJob: Kayenne had [[FireIsRed red eyes]] in ''The Shiness'', as he was a [[PlayingWithFire fire shi user]], they were changed to [[WindIsGreen green]] for the game, as he was changed to an [[BlowYouAway air shi user]]. Similarly, the red details on his original outfit were changed to green.

* AdaptationalWimp: Askel is much weaker than his counterpart Youko from the original manga, as he lacks Youko's MindControl power and doesn't use his paralyzing bloodor in combat. Chado defeats Askel in the game, whereas in the manga, Youko defeats Chado by paralyzing him and knocking him out.
* AdaptationTitleChange: The original manga was titled ''The Shiness''.

* CompositeCharacter: The Shiness Chado can see was known as Vanny in ''The Shiness'' and was the Shiness of air, whereas the Shiness of earth was Terry. In the game, both characters were combined into Terra, who is the Shiness Chado can see as well as the Shiness of earth.

* CowardlyMooks: [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent Shivos]] can flee battles if you take too long to defeat them.

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange:
** In the game, Chado and Poky leave Kimpao without their parents' permission on a ship Poky invented. In ''The Shiness'', they instead volunteer for testing a new ship invented by Chado's grandfather Yandor.

** Rosalya's counterpart, Rosa, wasn't a summoned one in the manga, she fled from Adorya merely because she [[RebelliousPrincess wanted freedom rather than being a princess]] and because her father was planning to [[ArrangedMarriage marry her]] to Ayron.

** Rosalya/Rosa was neither a fire shi user nor a summoned one in the manga, whereas the game turns her into a PrettyPrincessPowerhouse.

** Almost every character of ''The Shiness'' save for the five playable characters Chado, Poky, Kayenne, Askel and Rosalya, the main antagonist Ayron, and of course the Shiness Terra, though she became a CompositeCharacter of two different Shiness. Most notably, Rosalya/Rosa's servant Altima, who traveled with her mistress as the main team's sixth member, is completely absent.

** Chado and Poky somehow managed to build ''three'' spaceships even though there are no spaceships on Kimpao, so they had no way to get the parts. Even if they had somehow built every single part on their own or cannibalized other machines, how they managed to build the three Asanaos so quickly (how long it took them isn't mentioned, but since they [[ComicBookTime don't seem to age]] between the chapter in ''Crossroad'' where Poky becomes interested in traveling with Chado and the one where the Asanao-3 takes off, it was supposedly less than a cycle) is never explained, neither is how they could afford building the 3 ships even though they're still children. This is definitely an AdaptationInducedPlotHole, since in ''The Shiness'', the ship was built by Chado's grandfather instead.

** The worst offender is easily the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUBDP5Y8YPA Gamescom 2016 trailer]]: it contains an animated cutscene of Chado and Terra's first meeting whereas it happens offscreen in the game, the scene showing the Adoryans about to execute Askel at the Gendys Station never happens in the game and seems to be a misleadingly modified version of a similar scene happening on Mantara instead, none of the shots where all five playable characters travel together can happen in the game, Ayron's model is outdated, the monster he summons is the unrelated boss Sabba and neither is fought at the Giant's Hall... the trailer barely features any ''frames'' from the actual game.

''Shiness: Crossroad''[[note]]''Shiness: Chemins Croisés'' in French.[[/note]], a 6-chapter tie-in manga, was released as a prequel for the game a few months before its release. Since the game's website no longer exists, the manga may instead be read with the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20170613191610/http://www.shiness-game.com/fr/media Wayback Machine]] or in its artist's [[https://www.instagram.com/geo_eon/ Instagram stories]]. Unfortunately, only the French version is completely findable.

* ContinuityReboot: The game wasn't intended to simply adapt the original manga, it was supposed to start a new continuity that would [[CanonDiscontinuity replace the manga's]].

* FantasticRacism: Both the game and ''Crossroad'' feature [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain shelk-hating Adoryan soldiers]], Ayron also had this trait in the original manga, but his game counterpart seems to lack it. Irys also hates the gromiz, though this is justified in that they slaughtered her father's people and are responsible for his curse.

* PlotHole: Several, often owing to the game's [[CutShort incomplete story]] and multiple rewrites during its development. As the game's plot differs considerably from the original manga's, some of these might actually be [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole Adaptation-Induced Plot Holes]].

** ''Crossroad'' shows that Rosalya grew up confined within a strongroom in Ranahel's palace, how she met Kayenne and escaped despite the heavy security isn't explained.
** Chado and Poky somehow managed to build ''three'' spaceships even though there are no spaceships on Kimpao, so they had no way to get the parts. Even if they had somehow built every single part on their own or cannibalized other machines, how they managed to build the three Asanaos so quickly (how long it took them isn't mentioned, but since they [[ComicBookTime don't seem to age]] between the chapter where Poky becomes interested in traveling with Chado and the one where the Asanao-3 takes off, it was supposedly less than a cycle) is never explained, neither is how they could afford building the 3 ships even though they're still children. This is definitely an AdaptationInducedPlotHole, since in ''The Shiness'', the ship was built by Chado's grandfather instead.

* AlmostOutOfOxygen: ''Crossroad'' reveals that Chado and Poky weren't originally planning to land on Gendys but were forced to head to it because their ship was running out of oxygen. This results in the ship being struck by lightning as soon as it enters the meteora's atmosphere and crashing, as the game's opening shows.

* BrokenAesop: During the game's development, Samir Rebib claimed that "[[GreyAndGrayMorality there is no such thing as good and evil]] in ''Shiness''", but this is [[BlackAndWhiteMorality strongly undermined]] in the final game, in which Zagrom is shown to have destroyed Meos's kingdom apparently for no other reason than he [[ForTheEvulz could]]. The mere fact that the [[TheDarkSide dark shi]] exists contradicts this aesop, as everything people under its influence are shown to do is unambiguously evil, though it's unclear as to whether Zagrom was actually under its influence or just already evil before being exposed to it. Even Ayron, whose [[spoiler: LastWords before he [[DisneyVillainDeath falls from Mantara]], "the Shiness will submit you to the same suffering as me",]] somewhat imply him to actually be a WellIntentionedExtremist, is needlessly cruel and willing to kill his minions for [[EvilIsPetty petty reasons]] as ''Crossroad'' shows.

* ContinuitySnarl: There are many blatant inconsistencies between the game and ''Crossroad'':
** Poky [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere willingly jumps]] from the Asanao-3 before it crashes in the game whereas he accidentally falls from it in the manga.
** It's day when the Asanao-3 crashes in the manga, but in the game, it's night.
** In a moment shown both in the manga and the game, just before Kayenne and Rosalya see the Asanao-3 crash, Rosalya trips while running through the forest of Meonis with Kayenne and is too exhausted to stand back up right away. But in the manga, she considers giving up, while in the game, she never does and even insists to continue running on her own, refusing to let Kayenne carry her.
** When Rosalya suffers a fit of PowerIncontinence at the Gendys Station in the manga, she quickly recovers unassisted, but when she suffers another after Askel captures her in the game, she needs ice shi to recover, forcing the party to find the [[FlowerFromTheMountaintop snow bloodor]].
** Askel and Ayron are on Gendys searching for Rosalya together in the manga, not in the game, where Ayron is still on Adorya and hasn't joined the search yet.
** Kayenne can use the technique ''Bomee'' in the manga but not in the game.
** ''Bomee'' is incorrectly described as an air shi spell, whereas in the game, it's a NonElemental technique. Similarly, Chado's ''Shi-Menhiro'' technique is incorrectly depicted as an earth shi-based attack, while in the game, it's an ability Chado can't use in battle, he can indeed use a menhir as a weapon with the technique ''Kiimeni'', but it's NonElemental.
** Mantises are called "mantaras" in the manga. In the game, there's only one mantis named Mantara.
** The "Sparkling Kingdom" is said in the manga to be Adorya's nickname, but in the game, it's the name of the former alliance between Gendys and Adorya instead.
** Ayron is shown to travel with a battalion of soldiers from his country in the manga, but they don't appear in the game, where he just commands Adoryan soldiers instead.

* DitzyGenius: Poky is the ten-cycle-old ChildProdigy who built the Asanao-3... and apparently forgot the ''parachutes''. And when the Asanao-3 is about to crash, he ''[[ViolationOfCommonSense jumps anyway]]''[[note]]In the game, at least. [[ContinuitySnarl In]] ''[[ContinuitySnarl Crossroad]]'', he falls accidentally.[[/note]]. Furthermore, ''Crossroad'' shows that he miscalculated the amount of oxygen he and Chado would need for their journey, and when the ship starts running out of oxygen, he erroneously believes he and Chado will suffer ExplosiveDecompression, though the latter part is probably an error from the writers themselves.

* NeverTrustATitle: No place in the game is called the "Lightning Kingdom". The closest thing it has is the Sparkling Kingdom, which was the name of the former alliance between Gendys and Adorya in the game... but [[ContinuitySnarl not in]] ''[[ContinuitySnarl Crossroad]]'', where it's Adorya's nickname instead. But Adorya is never visited in the game anyway.

** The worst offender is easily the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUBDP5Y8YPA Gamescom 2016 trailer]]: it contains an animated cutscene of Chado and Terra's first meeting whereas it happens offscreen in the game, the scene showing the Adoryans about to execute Askel at the Gendys Station never happens in the game and seems to be a misleadingly modified version of a similar scene happening on Mantara instead, none of the shots where all five playable characters travel together can happen in the game, Ayron's model is outdated, the monster he summons is the unrelated boss Sabba and neither is fought at the Giant's Hall... not a single Maherian line and not a single ''frame'' is actually from the game.

** As ''Crossroad'' implies and [[https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/001/946/107/4a69520237da96ba07eef2557316d966_original.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.0.2&w=680&fit=max&v=1398845776&gif-q=50&q=92&s=18f5603f24bbb97b5d47b2995afa1951 this map]] from the Kickstarter campaign's page shows, Nalluka is in the ''opposite'' direction as Gendys (called by its old name Adorn on the map), so Kayenne bringing Rosalya to Gendys after they flee Adorya doesn't make sense since his goal is to bring her to Nalluka. While it shows that he has an arrangement with the Mantarians to hide Rosalya on Mantara until she can be transferred to Nalluka, the game never explains why he doesn't bring her there directly. However, as both ''Crossroad'' and the Kickstarter page contain outdated information and no map in the game itself shows Nalluka's location, it's possible that it was changed during the development, though we don't know whether or not this would solve the plot hole.

* ShockAndAwe: Lightning is Irys's element of choice, she can decipher lightning spells so that the party can learn them [[spoiler: and uses lightning attacks [[StoryBranching if]] she ends up being the final boss]]. It's also the element of choice of her father Meos, her sister Altania and most Adoryan soldiers, who even wield [[ElementalWeapon electrified weapons]]. ''Crossroad'' mentions that Adorya uses lightning as its main energy source.

* TinTyrant: Ayron always wears an armor that only leaves his face and hands uncovered, ''Crossroad'' shows that his armor is also his weapon, since he can [[ExtraOreDinary manipulate it]] to ''[[BladeBelowTheShoulder turn his arms and fingers into blades]]''. However, he doesn't do this in the game and just uses a sword.

* MultipleEndings: Two endings are possible and [[StoryBranching determined by your choices]]: one where [[spoiler:Irys]] turns out to be the one who betrayed the Mantarians, accidentally kills [[spoiler:Kaorys]] and is fought as the PreFinalBoss before [[FusionDance merging with Ayron]] to become the FinalBoss, and one where [[spoiler:Kaorys]] is the traitor and the roles are reversed, you're more likely to get the second ending by making the [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential cruelest]] choices. Since [[CutShort no sequel was made]], we don't know [[CuttingOffTheBranches which ending is canon]], though the [[TheStinger final cutscene]] is the exact same no matter the ending since [[spoiler:both sisters die]] in any case and the party leaves Gendys anyway, so it's likely that neither ending would have had long-term consequences.

* StoryBranching: The player is often asked to choose between two options (with an occasional [[ThirdOption third]], though it's usually [[GuideDangIt much harder to figure out]]), and one is generally [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential crueler]] than the other (for instance, you have to choose between sparing Grorim's life and [[CoupDeGrace finishing him off]] after defeating him). These choices change how both minor and major events play out and determine the game's [[MultipleEndings ending]].

** In addition to his [[GreenThumb plant shi powers]], Askel/Youko had MindControl and [[TheDarkSide dark shi]] powers in the manga, he lacks them in the game.

** While Rosalya's father King Ranahel appears in the game, her mother never appears and no queen of Adorya is ever mentioned.

* OffModel:
** Some humans' models, especially their eyes, Bagogue's model in particular lacks a ''[[TheUnblinking blinking animation]]''.
** Terra's model floats unconvincingly as it lacks MidairBobbing, it rarely blinks, its mouth never moves when she talks and its expression rarely changes. Worse, in the only animated cutscene her model appears in, it's missing its ''mouth''.

* DerelictGraveyard: The summit of the Shiyawo mountain is full of crashed ships.

* CameraScrew: One of the game's most criticized aspects, the camera often gets stuck on scenery elements in the middle of a battle.

As you can probably guess from the synopsis, the game is a deliberate [[GenreThrowback love letter]] to classic [[EasternRPG Eastern RPGs]], though it features a real-time combat system similar to a fighting game. Intended to be the first part of an EpisodicGame, ''The Lightning Kingdom'' unfortunately received mixed reviews and failed to make a profit, killing both Enigami and any chance of a sequel.

''Shiness: Crossroad''[[note]]''Shiness: Chemins Croisés'' in French.[[/note]], a 6-chapter tie-in manga, was released as a prequel for the game a few months before its release. Since the game's website no longer exists, the manga may instead be read with the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20170613191610/http://www.shiness-game.com/fr/media Wayback Machine]] or on its artist's [[https://www.instagram.com/geo_eon/ Instagram stories]]. Unfortunately, only the French version is completely findable.

''Shiness: Crossroad''[[note]]''Shiness: Chemins Croisés'' in French.[[/note]], a 6-chapter tie-in manga, was released as a prequel for the game, but is now only available via the Wayback Machine, and only the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20170613191610/http://www.shiness-game.com/fr/media French version]] is complete.

** Terra is also Chado's mentor to some extent, especially in ''Crossroad''[[note]]An unpublished page from the unreleased 7th issue even shows her teach Chado how to summon a menhir[[/note]].

* MindOverMatter: Kayenne's power, which he [[MisappliedPhlebotinum oddly doesn't use in combat]], its only purpose is to solve puzzles... and to briefly paralyze enemies out of battle, but it's [[UselessUsefulSpell effectively useless]] since you can't move while using this power, its range is too limited, and it wears off almost instantly.

** Relatedly, Kayenne's telekinesis is a lot less useful in practice than in theory because it only works on Chado's menhirs and on some objects [[NoticeThis bearing a telekinesis symbol]], no in-universe justification is ever given. He also can't use it on some objects that must be moved with Askel's attracthorn instead even though it should logically also do the trick. Furthermore, he never uses this power for anything in the story or in battle, only during out-of-battle gameplay.