The game has an offline version for a limited time
Image via La Corda d’Oro Starlight Orchestra’s website Official website for the Koei Tecmo Games franchise’s Ruby Party smartphone games and Kin-iro no Corda: Starlight Orchestra (La Corda D’Oro) Aniplex’s Starlight Orchestra has announced that the game will end service on March 29. The game will have an offline version for a limited time after service ends. The offline version allows players to view unlocked stories and cards.
In-game coin and Jewel card sales have been paused.
The game launches for iOS and Android in February 2021.
CloverWorks handled the animation for the game’s animated sequences. Takayama is the character designer. DISH//performs the theme song of the game “Birthday”.
The game focuses on a violinist studying in the General Education department of Seisō Academy, when she meets Ginga Ichinose, who is aiming for victory in the”International Student Orchestra Competition”.
Kin-iro no Corda: Starlight Orchestra Comic, the manga adaptation of the game by Hachi Yatsuhashi, will end in the February 2024 issue of Ichijinsha’s Monthly Comic Zero Sum magazine on December 27. Yatsuhashi launched the manga in Monthly magazine Comic Zero Sum in September 2021, with Shinobu Takayama credited as character designer. Ichijinsha published the manga’s first compilation volume in March 2022 and the third volume on June 23.
The latest main game in the series, La Corda d’Oro 4, was released in Japan in February 2016, and continues the story from the game La Corda D’Oro 3. Kin-iro no Corda 2ff ( La Corda D’Oro 2 Fortissimo) PlayStation Vita remake of Kin-iro no Corda 2f (La Corda D’Oro 2 Forte) the original PlayStation Portable game shipped in December 2017. Koei Tecmo Games also released a Port PlayStation Vita of Kin-iro no Corda 3 Full Voice Special (La Corda D’Oro 3 Full Voice Special) and all three Kin-iro no Corda 3 Another Sky (La Corda D’Oro 3 Another Sky) games in Japan in September September 2018.
La Corda D’Oro Octave for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation Vita, and PC (via Steam) launched in February 2019.
The series inspired a 26-episode anime television series in 2006, and a two-episode sequel special, La Corda D’Oro ~secondo passo~, which aired in spring 2009. The third anime, La Corda d’Oro Blue Sky, debuted in 2014 and earned 12th place episodes. Crunchyroll streamed all three anime, and Sentai Filmworks released La Corda D’Oro and La Corda d’Oro Blue Sky in North America.
Source: Kin-iro no Corda: website, 4Gamer