Summon Night

Summon Night(サモンナイト,Samon Naito)is a series ofrole-playing video games,mixed with elements of avisual novelbaseddating sim.The series is primarily developed byFlight-Plan,published byBanpresto,and owned byBandai Namco Entertainment.The character designs are byIzuka Takeshi.The series has had six main line entries, and seven spin-off entries, spanning thePlayStation,PlayStation 2,PlayStation 4,PlayStation Portable,PlayStation Vita,Game Boy AdvanceandNintendo DSvideo game consoles.

Summon Night
Genre(s)	Role-playing game
Developer(s)	Felistella Flight-Plan Banpresto Media.Vision
Publisher(s)	Banpresto Bandai Namco Entertainment
First release	Summon Night January 6, 2000
Latest release	Summon Night 6: Lost Borders March 10, 2016

Until 2015, no main entries to the series had been released outside of Japan. The only titleslocalizedinto English were the spinoff gamesSummon Night: Twin Age,Summon Night: Swordcraft Storyand its sequel,Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2.

In April 2015, it was announced thatGaijinworkswould translate and publish the latest entry in the series,Summon Night 5,in North America and Europe. On December 15, 2015, it was released in North America but a European release never came to fruition. The game was considered a success in North America, with its sales being enough to warrant Gaijinworks to translate its sequelSummon Night 6,which was released in both North America and Europe in late 2017. TheSummon Nightseries has sold a total of 1.904 million copies.

Games

Main series

The games from the main series are allstrategy RPGs.They take place in the same world and same continuity, but the stories between games are mostly unrelated.

• Summon Night(January 6, 2000)
  Released for thePlayStation/remade forNintendo DS.
• Summon Night 2(August 2, 2001)
  Released for the PlayStation/remade for Nintendo DS.
• Summon Night 3(August 7, 2003)
  Released for thePlayStation 2/Remake for thePSPwas released on October 4, 2012.
• Summon Night 4(November 30, 2006)
  Released for the PlayStation 2/Remake for the PSP was released on November 15, 2012.
• Summon Night 5(May 16, 2013)
  Released for the PSP.
• Summon Night 6: Lost Borders(2016)
  Released for PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 4.

Spin-offs

The following games are action-RPGs in the style ofYsorSeiken Densetsu.

• Summon Night EX-These: Yoake no Tsubasa(August 4, 2005)
  Released for the PlayStation 2.
• Summon Night Twin Age: Seireitachi no Kyoumei (Koe)(August 30, 2007; USA: June 3, 2008)
  Released for the Nintendo DS, localized byAtlusin the US asSummon Night: Twin Age.
• Summon Night Gran-These: Horobi no Tsurugi to Yakusoku no Kishi(March 11, 2010)
  Released for the PlayStation 2.

The following three games areSummon Nightgames in the action-RPG genre.

• Summon Night: Swordcraft Story(Japan: April 25, 2003; USA: July 26, 2006)
  Released for theGame Boy Advance,localized byAtlusin the USA.
• Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2(Japan: August 20, 2004; USA: October 17, 2006)
  Released for the Game Boy Advance; also localized by Atlus.
• Summon Night Swordcraft Story 3: Stone of Beginnings(December 8, 2005)
  Released for the Game Boy Advance.

The following game is an RPG with turn-based battles in the style of theFinal Fantasyseries.

• Summon Night X: Tears Crown(November 5, 2009)
  Released for the Nintendo DS.

Setting

All of theSummon Nightgames take place in Lyndbaum,a world similar to medieval Europe with the inclusion of modern factories and railroads, placingSummon Nightin asteampunksetting. Lyndbaum is surrounded by four other worlds: Loreilal, the land from where mechanical creatures come; Silturn, the land ofyokai;Sapureth, where angels and demons live; and Maetropa, from where half-humans, magical beasts, fairies and other mythical creatures hail. Besides those four there are also countless other worlds, including our world (the "real" world) where the main characters of the first game are transported from. Certain boundaries separate the worlds from each other, making the various summoning techniques the only way to transport things between them.

External links

• Summon Night Series Official Site(Japanese)
• Summon Night 5 Official Site(Japanese)
• Hardcore Gaming 101 - Summon Night