Dear Team Ladybug and Metroidvania fans,

Today, we are proud to have released Blade Chimera, Team Ladybug's very first original Metroidvania!

Building upon feedback we received from players of Touhou Luna Nights and Record of Lodoss War -Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth-, Blade Chimera has 3 fully original maps and a large variety of sidequests for you to complete. It's a longer, richer experience that any past Team Ladybug game, and it has a fresh demo on Steam for you to try out as well!

One of the game's defining features is the ability to warp anywhere on the map, which is pretty unusual for a Metroidvania. It allows quick, convenient travelling across the large maps without trivializing movement.


Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, one of the most iconic titles by IGA, the great founding father of the Metroidvania genre itself, is collaborating with us to create this bundle. The collaboration is scheduled to last until the end of February.

Actually, IGA, Shutaro, and Ladybug have actually talked in a "Metroidvania round table" before, where Ladybug reveals that he strives to emulate their work in his own. That was what paved the way for this collaboration.

Until today, the discussion was only transcribed in Japanese, but to commemorate this collaboration, we've gotten special permission from Famitsu to translate it into English and Simplified Chinese. The translations are available to read on the PLAYISM website, and there you can read about just how much Ladybug was influenced by Symphony of the Night.

Click here to read the article if you're interested![playism.com]

We've also received comments from IGA and Ladybug concerning the Metroidvania New Generation bundle, which are exclusively featured in the following Famitsu article. The comments are only available in Japanese, but you can't read them anywhere else, so we'll share the link with you anyway!

Click here to read a message from Ladybug and IGA![www.famitsu.com] (Japanese only; available from 6 PM JST)

And here's the link to the collaborative bundle:

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/49181/

The Team Ladybug bundle is also on sale for Blade Chimera's launch, and we've also added Blade Chimera emotes to our official server. There's a lot going on as we celebrate the game's launch, so please check out the details in the Blade Chimera Steam news!

We hope you'll play and enjoy Blade Chimera, and that you'll continue to support Team Ladybug!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/20245/Team_Ladybug_Bundle/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2671230/_/

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