Shining Force

[Demonic Weasel]

Discuss the awesomness that is the Shining Force sereis, any of them that you want. Ask about prices, technical details, anything about the games. Give your opinions, your favorites your least favorites, just whatever you want to talk about as concerns the Shining Force franchise.

[Melf]

Oops! This goes in the Genesis forum. Off you go!

[Drixxel]

I'm curious, which of the series is generally seen as the best, or at the very least in your opinion Demonic Weasel?

[crazyjoedavola]

Does this Include Shining in the Darkness? I think this is the game that pretty much started the whole thing off even though it's nothing like the other Shining games.

[Demonic Weasel]

Okay, yes this includes Shining in the Darkness which is what started the series and later Camelot put a couple things in for plot connections. As for which is the best... well Shining Force 3 is usually hailed as the best for the standard reasons of it having a better plot, fleshed out characters, etc. I'm not sure which I'd hail as the best, but out of the ones I've played it's probably going to be Shining the Holy Ark, or Shining Force the Legacy of Great Intention. At the moment I can't comment about Shining Force CD, and I haven't played any of the newer games, so it'd be one of those two.

[Genesis Knight]

I finally played it the other day, and man was I disappointed. Didn't live up to the hype at all.

[danielscheil]

i love shiningforce ( I )
Great Story
Great Gameplay

shiningforce ( II ) is also great but not so original like ( I )

shining in the darkness is too hard ! i have stoped playing the game after 6 hours in the first dungeon

[Vicman]

Shining Force CD is the 2 GG Shining Force games remade into one 16 bit game. As such it's main focus is battle, battle, battle. If you expect as much it's a good game, but if you're expecting an immense story you'll be disappointed.

[Demonic Weasel]

Vicman, which one did you play... and why do you say that it doesn't live up to it's praise?

By the by, one of the reasons that I liked Shining in the Darkness was because it was so hard. I like games that are challenging more than ones that aren't typically.

[David J.]

I really like Shining Force CD. Too bad the third Game Gear game was released after Shining Force CD.

[Demonic Weasel]

Well I haven't played that particular one... sorry in my last post I meant to ask Genesis Knight why he says that Shining Force is so terrible and which one he played...

[Vicman]

I was under the impression GK was talking about Shining Force CD...

[Melf]

Very timely thread! We'll have a review of Shining in the Darkness up on Monday.

[Demonic Weasel]

Ah that's excellent. I noticed that there was only Shining Force 2 with a review. I've been meaning to see if I could get my lazy self to write a couple of Shining Reviews, but now Shining in the Darkness isn't necessary. excellent.

What gave you the impression he was talking about SFCD? Speaking of which, I've always wondered why that one seems to be the one people most frequently have a bad reaction to. Any ideas why?

[j_factor]

My favorite Shining game is Shining the Holy Ark.