is a

role-playing video game A role-playing video game (commonly referred to as simply a role-playing game or RPG, as well as a computer role-playing game or CRPG) is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (or several party members) immers ...

series produced by

Telenet Japan was a Japanese video game and software developer founded in October 1983 by Kazuyuki Fukushima. The company had several video game divisions including: Wolf Team, Laser Soft, Reno, Renovation Products, Riot, Commseed, and Telenet Jr. Telenet Ja ...

. The series has a motif of

Celtic mythology Celtic mythology is the body of myths belonging to the Celtic peoples.Cunliffe, Barry, (1997) ''The Ancient Celts''. Oxford, Oxford University Press , pp. 183 (religion), 202, 204–8. Like other Iron Age Europeans, Celtic peoples followed a ...

and consists of three games: ''Tenshi no Uta'' (1991), ''Tenshi no Uta II: Datenshi no Sentaku'' (1993), and ''Tenshi no Uta: Shiroki Tsubasa no Inori'' (1994).

Games

''Tenshi no Uta''

was released on 25 October 1991 as one of the launch titles for the

PC-Engine The TurboGrafx-16, known as the outside North America, is a home video game console designed by Hudson Soft and sold by NEC Home Electronics. It was the first console marketed in the fourth generation, commonly known as the 16-bit era, though ...

Super CD-ROM².

''Tenshi no Uta II: Datenshi no Sentaku''

was released on 26 March 1993, also for the Super CD-ROM². The game setting in a 100-year-after parallel universe of its predecessor. Characters were designed by

Nobuteru Yūki is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator, animator and doujinshi artist. He has designed characters for manga, anime and video games, and has frequently collaborated with director Kazuki Akane, including on his most famous work, ''The Vision ...

''Tenshi No Uta: Shiroki Tsubasa no Inori''

was published for the

Super Famicom The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), commonly shortened to Super NES or Super Nintendo, is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Euro ...

on July 29, 1994. It is the third episode in the series, but is not a true sequel to the first and second episodes previously released on the

PC Engine The TurboGrafx-16, known as the outside North America, is a home video game console designed by Hudson Soft and sold by NEC Home Electronics. It was the first console marketed in the fourth generation, commonly known as the 16-bit era, though ...

. Members of

Wolfteam , formerly known as , was a Japanese video game development company founded in 1986. The company was renamed in 2003 when Telenet Japan sold part of its stake and made Namco the majority shareholder. Namco Tales Studio was originally the primary d ...

were involved with this project. It is the first time that Wolfteam members worked with many workers getting transferred from the

Riot A riot is a form of civil disorder commonly characterized by a group lashing out in a violent public disturbance against authority, property, or people. Riots typically involve destruction of property, public or private. The property targete ...

subsidiary. Music and sound design were provided by

Motoi Sakuraba is a Japanese composer and keyboardist. He is known for his numerous contributions in video games, such as for '' Tales'', ''Star Ocean'', ''Mario Golf'', ''Mario Tennis'', '' Golden Sun'', and ''Dark Souls'' series, as well as several other ani ...

, Shinji Tamura, and

Hiroya Hatsushiba Hiroya Hatsushiba ( ja, 初芝弘也, ''Hatsushiba Hiroya'') is the founder of video game developer tri-Crescendo, and a long time sound programmer for composer Motoi Sakuraba, whom he also gives English titles of the tracks Sakuraba creates. Hat ...

. An English

fan translation Fan translation (or user-generated translation) refers to the unofficial translation of various forms of written or multimedia products made by fans (fan labor), often into a language in which an official translated version is not yet available. ...

was released in 2018.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tenshi No Uta Fantasy video games Fantasy video games set in the Middle Ages Japan-exclusive video games Video games based on Celtic mythology Video games developed in Japan Video games scored by Motoi Sakuraba Video game franchises introduced in 1991