New Shining Force games for PS2 & GBA

**NoFace** · 29 Apr 2004, 10:16 AM

I love the artwork for the characters in those scans... looks pretty damn sweet.

I'm mostly a Shining n00b, but I've played a few of the games (SFIII, Holy Ark, Soul), and have heard people rave about this series for years, so I'm excited for the PS2 one at least.

**Jetman** · 31 Aug 2004, 10:50 PM

Shining Force PS2:

**Ragnarok the Red** · 01 Sep 2004, 06:10 AM

Originally Posted by Jetman

Shining Force PS2:

WOO-HOO!

**FirstBlood** · 02 Sep 2004, 01:54 PM

That is fucking beautiful.

**RedCoKid** · 24 Sep 2004, 03:16 PM

IGN says Sega will bring Shining Tears to the US next spring.
TGS 2004 movie

**Tracer** · 24 Sep 2004, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by Frogacuda

Like 80% of Andrommeda went to Smilebit, and most of them are at AV. Some went to Overworks. I don't think many went to UGA at all. Where did you hear that?

You'd know better than I, but I was dead certian that a lot of TA went to and can still be found at Polyphony Digital.

**Melf** · 24 Sep 2004, 03:53 PM

Originally Posted by 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).

I totally disagree. The Shining series has never been about long, drawn-out, complicated gameplay mechanics and uber-deep character development. They're made to be intuitive and easy to get into, which is why the same menu system carries over to each game.

As for the franchise bringing it down a notch. How? Shining Wisdom is only one of sixteen titles released with the Shining name, which also includes strategy/RPGs as well as traditional turn-based RPGs. Wisdom is one of the only action/RPGs in the series and isn't a good representation of the franchise.

I personally think that the Shining name does good for these games. The fact that they're all in the same universe with events and characters that overlap is great.