New Shining Force games for PS2 & GBA

[jarrod]

Fuck the GBA. It's about time we got a potentially great SRPG on a real console this generation.

Too bad Sega's giving us another Shining Force instead. :P

Oh well, there's always Front Mission/Fire Emblem/Nippon Ichi...

[BEBOPlover]

Things are happening in my pants.

HA!

[gamevet]

I'd love to see a compilation of the Shining Force III scenarios. I've only played the US Saturn version.


The new version for the PS2 has me excited.

[Yoshi]

Too bad Sega's giving us another Shining Force instead. :P

Oh well, there's always Front Mission/Fire Emblem/Nippon Ichi...

What color is the sky where Front Mission is better than Shining Force? Candy cane striped perhaps?

[Kidnemo]

What color is the sky where Front Mission is better than Shining Force? Candy cane striped perhaps?

I like Front Mission better as well.

So there!

[Despair]

I like Front Mission better as well.

So there!

You wrong then There !!!

And I am very excited !!!

[jarrod]

What color is the sky where Front Mission is better than Shining Force? Candy cane striped perhaps?

Blue. I like the addictive customization, stat building and micromanagement in games like Front Mission, the Ogre Battle Saga and Nippon Ichi's stuff but I also enjoy the purer brutal strategic battling in stuff like Fire Emblem. Shining Force has traditionally tried to tried to find that middle ground between the two (which is a great idea) but in actual practice just ends up doing both sides rather mediocre. It's a dumbed down, easy Fire Emblem with more character emphasis essentially, a C+/B- level series at best. The only reason it's so cherished in the west is Sega having the intestinal fortitude to actually bring a SRPG over, nostalgia does the rest.

[Yoshi]

While I disagree completely, I applaud jarrod's ability to back up his opinion.

[Werewolf]

They are different types of games, even though they are both strategy games they are far different themes

[jarrod]

Well, I'm probably being just a bit hard on Shining Force. I'd say the series is actually a solid "B" but the Shining franchise in general brings it down a notch (I've never been fond of the dungeon crawlers and Wisdom was pretty flawed to put it nicely).