Black Strings Carnival: Last Song

Black Strings Carnival: Last Song is the second and final canonical game of "The FEAST Saga" series.

Sequel of Feast of the Black Strings, it centers in the year 2016, where there's a new worldwide conflict in the name of "Program of Mother Ophelia: The World", made by Luxendria's Senate and lead by the President, and so forth, the seven main characters (counting Lakia), return, and also some of the original characters can now support the gameplay or directly involved. Unlike the 4 main and three support of Part 1.

In-Verse Productions hinted that It will for the same consoles (sans PC), and because of New Nintendo 3DS was announced, The developers will move from the Normal 3DS to the New 3DS as a possible Launch Title in the US if it is confirmed an official launch date.

It was confirmed to have a separate release, first in the Americas, later Europe and Australia in 2015 and finally Japan in 2016. And also the ratings confirmed are: ESRB - M, PEGI 18 (The first game was 16), and CERO - D. And It was confirmed an International dubbing for some countries, (except Songs, there are in english and japanese). Main theme of the game is still yet to be announced.

Gameplay
See the First Game Page.

There's some new mechanics however, in addition to the others in here, there are two variations, "Mecha Mode" and "Normal mode" in which you're playing with just the character and not the Mecha.

And also, more medium boss battles, and there's seven path divided in seven phases, with one single and final ending path when the other seven were completed, the campaign at least in Path 1 is 50 minutes-1hr long. And the next paths will be harder and harder.

Story
Two years after the events of the series, the Black Strings had grown in number of members up to six, and since the defeat of two important forces and regaining his mother's trust, Blake had been thinking about surpassing his father's shadow, being a better performer himself. In the band's coming of age story, they will meet Melody, the songstress from the mysterious "Divine Crusaders" Clan, who has lost her memories by someone else, who created the "The Program of Mother S: The World", now, with their talents and even lives at risk because of the "Sacrifice to the cursed Death", they need to find "Who they're" and set in a quest with allies and also new rivals and friends during the adventure.

However, behind this there will be a war between the Reformed FEAST and Government of Luxendria, who even ascends to a global conflict in the halfway in supporting FEAST, the President and the Senate declares the war in all the world to gain enough sacrifices...

Black Strings

 * Blake Snider (Blaze Platinum): The main male Protagonist and first hero of the story, the lead singer and guitarist of the band. He's 22 years old.
 * Zelda Grizel (Sheena Marvelous): Nathan's Secretary and a member of the band being the Keyboardist. She's 26 years old.
 * Gavin Albain (Ace Saturn): A Famed Music teacher of Illinichina and member of the band being the Drummer. He's 37 years old.
 * Sienna Travers (Fancy Velour): A girl with great capacity in fighting, is the other guitarist and secondary protagonist. She's 19 years old.
 * Nathan "Jonathan" Travers (Sparky Diamond): A Bulky and handsome Detective and became the band's bassist. He's 23 years old.
 * Rose Belladonna (Lita Dollz): Blake's girlfriend and the new tambourine of the band. One of the Female protagonists. She's 21 years old.

FEAST

 * Captain Roger Masters: A member of FEAST and Ragnarök's workshop captain in chief, he's 30 years old.
 * Elizabeth "Ameth" Amador: A Fortune teller and the half sister of Martha, a FEAST staff member. She's 34 years old.
 * Martha Snider-Hayes: The widow of Donovan and Blake's mother. She's 48 years old.
 * Sebastian von Stroheim: The new Boss of FEAST and limousine driver. He's 60 years old.
 * Lakia/Luke: An entity who takes the form of an androgynous being. Physically 17/22 years old.
 * Mildred Albain: A teacher and a Scientist that joined FEAST after Sampson's demise. She's 27 years old.
 * Shawn Grizel: Zelda's younger brother and FEAST newest member. He's 24 years old.

Others

 * Eliza Sampson: After the Death of her father and her imprisonent, she helps the heroes. She's 20 years old.
 * Aurelius Krüger: The former horseman of death now in a wheelchair, the only survivor of the four. He's 38 years old.
 * Mark Holly: A close ally of the heroes and bartender. He's 47 years old.

New Characters
A songstress who has lost her memories of most of her life, she's the woman that Blake meets for the first time. She looks far way older than the protagonist. She's physically 30 years old, has blonde hair with green eyes. Heights 163cm (5' 4"). A very well known Disc Jockey in the music industry, who also secretely works for the President of Luxendria, Will Krone. He's serious and strict, but has a human side, is the Vice President of the Board of Directors, likes basketball. He's 32 years old, Has Black hair and Brown eyes, Born in December 22. Heights 180cm (5' 11"). Liam is a young woman who dresses like a boy because she happened to be raised like that by her parents, nobody sans Wilhelm knows his secret and he sends Liam as Jazz to look for the band and FEAST, wants to become a comic/manga artist. She's 18 years old. Has green hair and dark red eyes, Born in October 20. Heights 150cm (4' 11"). An expert guitarist and solo singer, not to mention a Mecha driver, he also got recent recognition due to his striking resemblance to Blake's father, Donovan. Tragic at his best and worst. Also wants to challenge Blake in a Concert Duel without interventions. He's 50 years old. Has Black hair and green eyes. Born in January 19. Heights 188cm (6' 2"). She's Sebastian's daughter and one of the Black Strings Childhood Friends, she also studies music, and is a member of a band, she's known as "magic hands" by outsiders, however, she suffers from Loneliness, and Melody is her first friend with the band. She's 25 years old. Has Red hair and black eyes (one covered in a eyepatch). Her birthday is August 13. Heights 173cm (5' 8"). The president of Luxendria connected with the "Holy Family". He has some mysterious schemes such as "The Program of Mother S." or "Sacrifice to the cursed death". He's apparently older than he looks, and orders Jazz to do the necessary, He's 36 years old but looks between 25~40 years old. Has white hair and purple eyes. Born in November 21. Heights 185cm (6' 1"). A superheroine in a big red and blue armor, she doesn't talk too much, when it talks, she's overprotective with certain people, especially the Snider family, and Blake, the man who she calls "Just a kid." which upsets him, has a personal Vendetta against the Government, she's arrogant but extremely caring, and is closest allies with Feast members. Heights 193cm (6' 4"). He's Gavin's younger brother and Mildred's cousin. He's a wrestler who's unseen in Part 1 but he often salutes his family a lot on his travels, he appears in Part 2 due to situation of extreme emergency which is related to Mildred. He's 31 years old, has brown hair and orange eyes. Born in September 30. Heights 186cm (6' 1.3"). He's a young man who is Sienna's best friend in the Academy, dresses in all white and has a similar appearance to the other Luke, however, he distrusts FEAST easily and has a rivalry with Blake in sorts, due to being very similar, perhaps. He's 22 years old. Born in May 24. Heights 174cm (5' 8.5"). The god of revenge and darkness who is worshiped by Wilhelm and his allies, it is the one who opposes Lakia, its sibling, always emotionless and serious until it becomes crazy and mad, has a face of a woman like Lakia but its physical body says otherwise, when in human size, it is 162cm (5' 3.7") in height, and looks between 20/25 years old. Is a "demi-god", a God slayer who uses the power of rock to destroy its enemies, is not an angel nor a demon, but has a duality motif on his looks and aspect, black and white hair with red and blue eyes, has also a bat like black wing and a bird like white wing. He awaits to find a new body and possess it for good, he wants to annihilate the Dio because of several calamities that made "in the long past.". He's 188cm (6' 2") and looks 35 years old.
 * Melody
 * DJ Lethal Rebel/Tristan "Hiro" Cruz
 * Liam Milford/Jazz Krone/Ciel Snyder
 * Rock/Donovan Snider/Jupiter Goldenrod
 * Alice von Stroheim
 * President Wilhelm 'Will' Krone
 * Shade Prism
 * Adelhard "Adel" Albain (Adelard in other translations)
 * Luke "Lucas" White (Not related to the Other Luke)
 * Ophelia
 * Reed

Minor New characters

 * Nia Schwarz-Albain: Gavin's wife and Harmony's mother, a famed chemistry teacher.
 * John Grayson: A senator and Zelda/Shawn's father.
 * Sabrina Grayson: Zelda/Shawn's mother and Mark's sister.
 * Rachel Hills: President's secretary.
 * Troy Smith: A member of the board.

Path 1

 * 1) Starting the Show
 * 2) May be this a secret plan?
 * 3) The Mightiest Giant around!
 * 4) Training with the Scientist
 * 5) Possessed by?!
 * 6) Calamity of Wrath
 * 7) The legendary Rocker has Returned!

Path 2

 * 1) The Assassin in Wonderland
 * 2) Revelations from the Deadly Light.
 * 3) Ice head of Destruction
 * 4) Road to the Imperial City!
 * 5) Noise of the Dark.
 * 6) The Soldier of Solitude -Part 1-
 * 7) Sebastian's daughter: Alice.

Path 3

 * 1) Insanity has advantages and disadvantages.
 * 2) The Super Reverse Mole!
 * 3) The Beast from the Chariot -Part 1-
 * 4) Melody, Can you remember?!
 * 5) Cloning is Fun.
 * 6) Mildred is in danger! Adel appears!
 * 7) Facing your Insane brother...

Path 4

 * 1) Grand Golem invades the Dark Town!
 * 2) Rose's big Challenge
 * 3) The Machine of Discord
 * 4) Mr. President Evil -Part 1-
 * 5) Steel Running in the Road
 * 6) Shade Prism, Queen of Temperance
 * 7) Shin Shade Prism, the Ruler of Temperance

Path 5

 * 1) "Wilhelm Clone"
 * 2) Little Verde Bomb
 * 3) The Strength of Justice
 * 4) Mysterious Being in the Call
 * 5) Bravado
 * 6) Return of the Father
 * 7) The Soldier of Solitude Final

Path 6

 * 1) The Shadow Swordsman of Light
 * 2) The Wild Malachite
 * 3) An old Enemy Returns
 * 4) Mr. President Evil -Part 2-
 * 5) Save the Princess!
 * 6) Dual Eyes
 * 7) The Beast from the Chariot Final

Path 7

 * 1) White Line Part 1
 * 2) White Line Part 2
 * 3) Early Monster is Back!
 * 4) A case of Darkness...
 * 5) Final Encounter with Rock
 * 6) Reed, the Demigod of Light and Darkness
 * 7) Mr. President Evil Final

Final Path

 * 1) Hello, Goodbye
 * 2) Who's the Mightiest Mech Warrior?
 * 3) Here's the Traitor! White Devil!
 * 4) The Black Angel...
 * 5) The Ultimate Life Form
 * 6) Homicidal (Connected with Part 5)
 * 7) Ragna-Rock's World.

Boss Battles Titles
In each Phase of the seven Paths after completing the objective and defeating the enemies, a boss will appear.

Path 1: Rock, the Furious Rocker.

 * 1) Unknown Mecha - Type: Monster
 * 2) Unknown Mecha - Type: Dragon
 * 3) Unknown Mecha - Type: Ogre
 * 4) Mildred Albain and Rendez-Vous (Battle Suit)
 * 5) Shawn Grizel and Combat Glass X (Possessed by: ???) (Battle Suit)
 * 6) Calamity Wrath - Type: Gorilla
 * 7) Rock Snider and Sky Rider #1

Path 2: Alice, the Assassin in Wonderland.

 * 1) Unknown Mecha - Type: Bird
 * 2) Unknown Mecha - Type: Flying Dinosaur
 * 3) Unknown Mecha - Type: Yeti
 * 4) Unknown Mecha - Type: Boar
 * 5) Black Noise - Type: Bat
 * 6) Jazz Milford and Death Fantasy #1 (Battle Suit)
 * 7) Alice von Stroheim and Crimson Velvet (Battle Suit)

Path 3: Melody, the amnesiac Songstress.

 * 1) Money Madness - Type: Phoenix
 * 2) Unknown Mecha - Type: Tortoise
 * 3) DJ Lethal Rebel and Chariot Beast #1 (Battle Suit)
 * 4) Xanadu - Type: Hybrid (With peacock wings) (Battle Suit)
 * 5) Unknown Mecha - Type: Clone (Controlled by: ???)
 * 6) Mad Devil (Controlled by ???)
 * 7) Gavin Albain and Alto Striker. (Possesed by ???)

Path 4: Shade Prism, the Grand Fighter.

 * 1) Unknown Mecha - Type: Golem (Battle Suit)
 * 2) Mirror Mirror (Battle Suit)
 * 3) Ill Machina
 * 4) Wilhelm Krone and Amadeus Phase 1
 * 5) Unknown Mecha - Type: Anaconda
 * 6) Shade Prism (Battle Suit)
 * 7) Shade Prism II (Battle Suit) (Possessed by: DJ Lethal Rebel)

Path 5: Jazz Milford, the Soldier of Solitude

 * 1) Mr. President - Type: Soldier
 * 2) Rainbow - Type: Chamaleon (Controlled by: Ameth) (Battle Suit)
 * 3) Nathan "Jonathan" Travers and Golem Trident
 * 4) Unknown Mecha - Type: Unknown (Battle Suit)
 * 5) Unknown Mecha - Type: Angelical (Controlled by: Jazz Milford)
 * 6) Rock Snider and Sky Rider #2 (Battle Suit)
 * 7) Jazz Milford and Death Fantasy Final - Last End (Controlled by: Wilhelm Krone)

Path 6: Tristan Cruz, The Fake Hero.

 * 1) Unknown Mecha - Type: Swordsman (Controlled by: ???) (Battle Suit)
 * 2) Malachite (Controlled by: ???)
 * 3) Eliza Sampson and Ultramarine
 * 4) Wilhelm Krone and Amadeus Phase 2 (Battle Suit)
 * 5) Zelda Grizel and Beryl (Possessed by: DJ Lethal Rebel)
 * 6) Eyes in the World (Battle Suit)
 * 7) DJ Lethal Rebel and Chariot Beast Final - Last End (Controlled by: Wilhelm Krone)

Path 7: Wilhelm Krone, the Shady President.

 * 1) Unknown Mecha - Type: White Line
 * 2) Unknown Mecha - Type: Weiss Wing (Battle Suit)
 * 3) Unknown Mecha - Type: Monster #2
 * 4) "Black" Rose Belladonna and Ruby (Battle Suit)
 * 5) Rock Snider and Sky Rider Final
 * 6) Reed
 * 7) Wilhelm Krone and Amadeus Final - Last End X w/Ophelia

Last Story: Diva, the Ultimate Life form.

 * 1) Black Rose (Cyber Suit)
 * 2) Blake "Reed" Snider/Sienna Travers and Eliza Sampson (Mirror match)
 * 3) Grim Reaper Lakia
 * 4) Ophelia
 * 5) Diva/Dio - 1st
 * 6) Diva/Dio - 2nd
 * 7) Diva/Dio - 3rd
 * 8) Diva/Dio - 4th
 * 9) Diva The Runaway

Mech and Cyber Suits

 * Sienna: Type-Cosmos Ragnarök/Valkyrie (Tentative name of Cyber Suit)
 * Unlockable: Type-Z Ragnarök
 * Blake: Type-Chaos Ragnarök/Platinum Cross.
 * Mildred: Rendez-Vous Mega/Crimson Diamonds.
 * Nathan: Golem Trident Ultimate/Arma Spades.
 * Alice: Crimson Velvet/Crimson Velvet Knight
 * Shawn: Combat Glass/Combat Glass X.
 * Jazz: Death Fantasy (Both named)/Last End (Boss)
 * Hiro: Chariot Beast (Both named)/Last End (Boss)
 * Shade Prism: Herself as only Cyber Suit.
 * Wilhelm: Amadeus (Both named)/Last End X (Boss)
 * Zelda: The Beryl (Both named)
 * Gavin: Alto Strker (Both named)
 * Eliza: Ultramarine/Meister Hearts.
 * Rock: Sky Rider/Chevalier Clubs.
 * Ameth: Verde Pump: Do-Re-Mi. (Only Mech)
 * Roger: Verde Bomb Ultra. (Only Mech)
 * Rose: The Ruby. (Both named)
 * Lakia: Vivid Fantasy -Cons-/Itself
 * Ophelia: Itself
 * Reed: Itself
 * Unlockable Rogue Mecha: Malachite, Valkyrie Ragnarök .

Final Bosses

 * Diva/Dio (Final Boss 1-4)
 * Diva the Runaway (Final Boss 5)

Menu Layout

 * Story Mode (Difficulty Settings: Simple, Easy, Medium, Normal, Hard, Hell, Dead or Alive. [In Dead or Alive you only have one life and if you lost, you can't continue unless you find a hidden check point each five phases])
 * Party/Online Mode
 * Versus (also Vs. Mecha Mode)
 * Mini-games
 * Gallery
 * Jukebox
 * Model Viewer
 * Arcana Cards
 * Stage images
 * Options
 * Language
 * Button Config.
 * Sound
 * Screen
 * Save/Load
 * Arcana Diary II: Contains a big amount of information about the game, cards, mechs, and mystical reference from the FEAST saga.

Rank System
It follows the five-star system of the previous game, but now with a twist. It adds a Perfect Bonus if you have the 5 stars. And a punishment bonus if you have the 1 star with severe damage.

Cover art

 * NA/EU Cover: A Guitar similar to the Platinum cross being taken by Blake in a black and white 3d model tonality alongside Sienna and Rose, featuring Wilhelm above alongside Jazz and Hiro, and the Type-Cosmos Ragnarök.


 * JP Cover: Features the entire Band featuring Lakia's "other form" with Alice and Melody facing each other with white wings with Rock in the center.


 * Special Edition: The two Mechs (Sky Rider vs. Amadeus vs. Type-Chaos Ragnarök) Facing with Lakia, Reed and Ophelia with a White, Gray and Black clothing.
 * Alternate NA/EU Cover: Features mysterious two male and one female warriors and Blake, Sienna and another mysterious woman in an anime inspired art.

Outfits
These are unlocked through challenges and replaying the game many times in a different path, now, with the freedom that you can choose whenever boss or phase.

Blake

 * Part 1 Blaze Platinum
 * Part 1 Blake Snider
 * Reed-mode.
 * Shirtless
 * One who resembles Rock when he was young.

Sienna

 * Part 1 Mech Suit
 * Part 1 Sienna Travers
 * Valkyrie Sienna
 * Ballet Suit
 * Gothic Lolita

Gavin

 * Part 1 Ace Saturn
 * Part 1 Gavin Albain
 * Boy-Band member
 * Teacher outfit

Zelda

 * Part 1 Sheena Marvelous
 * Part 1 Zelda Grizel
 * Detective Suit
 * Secretary Suit

Nathan

 * Part 1 Nathan
 * Pilot Suit
 * Jojo's Bizarre Adventure inspired Outifit.
 * Detective Suit

Rose

 * Black Rose
 * School Uniform
 * Cheerleader Suit
 * Pirate Suit

Shawn

 * Posessed Shawn

Mildred

 * Rapper

Roger

 * Soldier Suit

Ameth

 * Dress

Rock

 * Blake inspired outfit

Jazz

 * Girl dress

Hiro

 * DJ Suit

Eliza

 * Part 1 Eliza

Wilhelm

 * Boy-Band member

Alice

 * High School cloth

Aurelius

 * Boy-Band member

Shade Prism

 * Martha Snider

Adelard

 * Wrestler

Lakia/Luke White

 * Warrior Suit

Ophelia

 * Knight Suit

Feast of the Black Strings Part 1 Soundtrack
It will unlock some special themes if you have the first game (Can be Digital or Physical too).

Golden Cards
The Golden Cards are special cards that could form a Poster, there are aproximately 550+ golden cards, these only are unlockable in the three hardest modes in th game. Music Road allows you to unlock cards more easier.

Other Features

 * Some artifacts for mechs and cyber suits are unlockable through installing the console port of Fight it Out. (Coming soon)

Special Edition Bonuses
It was confirmed in December 3, 2014 that there will be a Special Edition. Containing the following:
 * Completely different artwork cover of the normal editions.
 * The Sample Soundtrack of the game: There are 10 songs that were chosen by the people through the polls, the 10 first places were selectioned.
 * Artbook -The Pieces of Destiny-: An Artbook with the Characters' art, and fanart.
 * The Team behind the Story: interviews with the Executive teams, the writer and some of the VA's involved.
 * A Collectionable Figure: Each Edition will have a different Main character as the figure.
 * 1) Sienna Travers as Fancy Velour - Nintendo Wii U Edition
 * 2) Blake Snider as Blaze Platinum - Playstation 4 Edition
 * 3) Zelda Grizel as Sheena Marvelous - Xbox One Edition
 * 4) Gavin Albain as Ace Saturn - Playstation 3 Edition
 * 5) Rose Belladonna as Lita Dollz - Xbox 360 Edition
 * 6) Jonathan Travers as Sparky Diamond - Playstation Vita Edition
 * 7) Luke White in his Heavy Metal form - New Nintendo 3DS Edition
 * Basic Game's Guide: A beginners' guide who introduces the features in the game. (Writer of the game's opinion: We made the guide beacuse the first game was "too hard" even in beginner mode...)
 * DLC Chapter: Epilogue ~ The Final Carnival: A prologue chapter featuring Sienna and Tusk, a woman from the past who fights the creator of the Dio Siblings, the Watcher, and a man named Julius Caesar Aeron, who has connections with the watcher. Normal Edition has the Epilogue Chapter for free.
 * DLC Chapter: Jazz: Chapter WONDERLAND: A look into the year 2021, featuring Ciel "Jazz" Snyder as the protagonist alongside two new characters who work for the Task Force, defeating the forces of Dark Millennium. Normal editions had the Wonderland chapter at $4,99 (However, the week of release of the game is free, after the week, is priced)

Trivia

 * This Sequel occurs in 2016.
 * The story is a lot more darker than Part 1, although there's some humorous moments, the majority of the theme is still retained.
 * Blake is now a music student after dropping his art career.
 * Since the band did grow, There's six protagonists, but the leads are Blake, Sienna and Rose, while in Part 1, there were four and four, with Sienna as its Main Protagonist.
 * Ron Sampson doesn't appear for story reasons, same for Geminia.
 * FEAST Dropped its "Record Label" insignia in favor of being a "Rebel Organization", lead by Sebastian, Ameth and Roger.
 * The narrator is still in english during battle scenes, now the narrators talks any language localized.
 * In the case of the Mecha involved, 75% of them will talk a different language to match the mysticism of the game.
 * Jazz Krone is inspired on Bridget from Guilty Gear Series, but unlike Bridget, Jazz is a Child Soldier.
 * DJ Lethal Rebel and Alice were a Last Minute Addition, since the Writer wanted a Four Bad-Guys Ensemble (Joining Jazz and Will, when Rock is not-so much united to them.). Where as Alice has a important plot point explored into the game, her loneliness.
 * In the Party mode, some of the mechs will be locked due to their being bosses or depowered. Such as The World, Angelus, Diva, etc.
 * Unlike in the first game were the soundtrack was just limited to rock and metal, the second game aside of these two genres will cover rap. dubstep, classical music, jazz, lounge, etc.

'Teasers'
First Teaser - First Step

Second Teaser - Alice von Stroheim's Hunting Tale

Third Teaser - God's Voice

Fourth Teaser - Hiro, the Chariot

Fifth Teaser - Arrival of 'The World'