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Gloria Union cover

2011 · Sting · Role-playing · Tactical

Gloria Union

Thousands of years ago, a great kingdom called Euforia flourished making use of a power source known as "Will".

Released
23 June 2011
Platforms
AndroidNintendo SwitchPlayStation Portable
Genres
Role-playingTacticalTactical role-playing
Developers
Sting
Publishers
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Series
Dept. Heaven
Modes
Single-player
Country
Japan
Age ratings
CERO BGRAC 12+
Composers
Shigeki Hayashi

About

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. A remastered version for mobile platforms and the Nintendo Switch was released in March 2021 in Japan.

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

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.

Story

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.

Development

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.

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.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
PlayStation Portable23 June 2011Japan

Editions and related releases

Remastered as
Gloria Union: Twin Fates in Blue Ocean FHD Edition

In the same series

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Years

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