{"id":137025,"date":"2026-05-02T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-200650"},"modified":"2026-05-02T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:00:00","slug":"melty-blood-twi-lumina-announced-for-switch-1-2-out-early-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/02\/melty-blood-twi-lumina-announced-for-switch-1-2-out-early-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Melty Blood: \ufeffTwi-Lumina Announced For Switch 1 &amp; 2, Out &#8220;Early 2027&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/de5898374613e\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/de5898374613e\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/de5898374613e\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"dEIRuO532q4\" data-start=\"0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dEIRuO532q4?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\">\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>At EVO Japan this weekend, developer French Bread and publisher Aniplex lifted the lid on <strong>Melty Blood: Twi-Lumina<\/strong> with a special teaser trailer.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s currently locked in for an &#8220;<strong>early 2027&#8243;<\/strong> release and will be available for the Switch and Switch 2.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some official PR, which notes how the existing 2D fighting game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/melty_blood_type_lumina\">Melty Blood: Type Lumina<\/a> (based on Type-Moon&#8217;s visual romance novel novel <em>Tsukihime<\/em>) is &#8220;back and better than ever&#8221;. No other details have been provided at this stage.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA is back and better than ever! Refined battle mechanics! New characters join the fray! A tale of conflict stirs once again within a dream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Melty Blood: Type Lumina was originally released on the Switch eShop in 2021. It also received multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/visual-novel-fighter-melty-blood-type-lumina-adding-4-new-dlc-characters\">DLC characters<\/a> and free updates &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/09\/more-switch-games-have-received-switch-2-compatibility-fixes\">got a compatibility fix<\/a> for the Switch 2 last year. Here&#8217;s some gameplay footage of this version:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"v4cvNNB65uM\" data-start=\"0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v4cvNNB65uM?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\"><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>When we find out more about Melty Blood: Twi-Lumina, we&#8217;ll provide an update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] At EVO Japan this weekend, developer French Bread and publisher Aniplex lifted the lid on Melty Blood: Twi-Lumina with a special teaser trailer. It&#8217;s currently locked in for an &#8220;early 2027&#8243; release and will be available for the Switch and Switch 2. Here&#8217;s some official PR, which notes how the existing 2D fighting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}