![]() Shining Force Feather was by Flight Plan, who was known for some alright SRPGs and it's a bit different from their other stuff but still not particularly great. Shining Hearts was made by Studio Saizensen and it's a Harvest Moon-type game based roughly on an early PS1 game called Doki Doki Poyatchio. Like Shining Force Neo/Exa was made by Neverland, and those games are basically follow-ups to their Lodoss War hack-and-slash Dreamcast game. A lot of them are outsourced to other companies and they ended up just kinda making pseudo-sequels to titles they made previously. I've been playing a lot of these lately and it is consistently baffling, they just had no idea what to do with it beyond keeping the "Shining" label alive. So folks, do you have any experience in a lot of the latter-day Shining games (especially the ones that never left Japan)? Are they worth trying to track down or are they better left in import limbo? I did pick up Shining Resonance Refrain for a pittance, even that looks like a sort of Tales ripoff or something, but it's one of the first Shining games to get released here in a long while. Fire Emblem has gotten HUGE lately, and there's really a shortage of quality SRPGs on the market lately, especially those that look like they have a budget. A traditional SRPG designed by Camelot with their unique character designs, or even barring that, a remaster of the 3 Shining Force 3 scenarios (include the Premium Disk). There was an arcade 3D hack and slash? A DS game that sort-of looks like a traditional strategy RPG? No less than 3 PSP games that (I believe) never left Japan that look heavily influenced by Valkyrie Chronicles? And perhaps the strangest thing, 4 2D fighting games? Seems like Sega was just throwing shit at the wall, seeing what would stick, instead of giving their fans (at least their American fans) what they want. I knew there was at least one GBA and 2 PS2 games, but what I had no idea of was there were 2 GBA hack and slashers, 5 PS2 games (most looking like they have ugly mobile-level graphics, and several that didn't get released here). But then I came across this Youtube retrospective that shows clips from each game in the series.Īnd wow, this series went in some STRANGE directions. Like most people, I fell off on the Shining series shortly after the Saturn, once Camelot left development and it moved into the realm of hack and slashers on the GBA and PS2.
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