![]() The first and most significant change is the removal of the town exploration segments. It’s not quite a new game, but changed enough that there will be quite a few surprises in store even for a hardened veteran. Impressive then, that the creator has managed to edit practically all the main characters, and add or edit a range of new items and monsters, new battle maps (in a sense), battle backgrounds, spells, and more. Being is a mod (or hack if you prefer) of the original game’s ROM, the extent of what can be altered and added is limited. ![]() Shining Force 2: Battle Royale by forum member nightshade00123 is a fine example of a mod that breathes new life to the game while staying true to what made the originals great. Many fans were left unsatisfied, and despite petitions to SEGA, no ‘true’ Shining Force game has emerged for decades.Ī dedicated community in the Shining Force Central forums didn’t take no for an answer, though. ![]() In short, what Shining Force was really about was the solid, classic gameplay.Īfter making a rock-solid formula for fun SEGA did the only natural thing and followed up with a large number of entries in the Shining Franchise that played nothing at all like the originals. A world where the good guys were good, the bad guys were bad simply because they were evil and, after finishing the game, the implications of leading an army of force members of near-godlike power or marrying princesses you barely knew wasn’t really something we should be concerned with. So Shining Force was the typical fantasy setting – plenty of slimes, fireballs and glowing swords with a barebones fairytale storyline that paled in comparison to, say, Final Fantasy Tactic’s heavy-handed political tale of moral conflict. Nonetheless, games such as Shining Force laid an important foundation for future titles and in some ways, revisiting the simplistic story and setting is a refreshing change. Like most fantasy RPG’s, the kingdom is in turmoil and so the King saw it fit to send an outnumbered and underequipped group of inexperienced teenagers to save the world. The first two Shining Force games were mid-90s strategy RPGs for the SEGA Megadrive (aka Genesis).
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