shining force 1, 2 and 3 were my all time favourite. 1 and 2 was on classic sega and 3 on sega saturn. the later developments like shining force neo bla bla are all on PS 2 and they sucked.
somehow i feel that shining force spurred the creation of turned based panel-style RPGs like FF tactics and Disgaea.
i played shining force 3 on disc one only halfway and my sega saturn brokedown! argh!! that was quite a pity. sigh!
I believe quite a lot of ppl have heard of shining force before as it was one of the popular titles in classic sega
The pioneer of tactical rpgs is fire emblem.....shining force came later....and then tactics ogre pioneered the isometric view.
I love tactical rpgs...like front mission, vantage master, wind fantasy....I'm interested in making my own tactical rpg but all the freeware tactical game makers are still in progress....crap...have to wait....
I only played the first 2 on sega ,they are nice but my fav strategy game would have to be warsong or langrisser back then.
shining force 1 and 2 rocks..
Originally posted by xfool:I only played the first 2 on sega ,they are nice but my fav strategy game would have to be warsong or langrisser back then.
i prefer shining force to langrisser. i played langrisser from 1 to 5. 4 and 5 are much better imo cos can buy tons of weapon and cast a wide range of spells. there is the cheat to go back to previous scenarios to train up oso and oso the secret shop cheat. however when playing 4 and 5 u would need a lot of planning to determine which final class suits u most.
when playing shining force the best part i like is the promotion. feels like a great sense of satisfaction. esp for shining force 2 where i try to promote every one at level 40. my favourite characters were the healers cos they are the easiest to train. lol
in part 2 the best characters imo are the mastermonks. there are 3 in total, sarah, karna and sheela. karna is the most powerful of the 3 cos she has wonderful stats if u promote her at level 40 and bring her to level 99 after promotion. in total there are 2 vigor balls to be found. one at the tree where sheela was bathing and the other one at the 'secret forest'
the next most powerful characters were peter, slade, earnest,ricky, the hero and gerhalt. they sure pack a punch with their awesome atk stats.
i like the part where we can find secret mithrils and promotion items. there are alot of mithrils hidden in the mountains on the world map. usually at places where part of the mountain is jutting out or in some cases caving in.