The battlefields look the same as previous games, and you still get the fantastic battle screen featuring nice, big sprites of your heroes and their enemies. The gameplay is almost exactly what we’d come to expect from the Shining Force games – assemble your force, equip them, upgrade them as necessary, and then take them into the field and use your superior tactical thinking to outwit and outmaneuver the enemy armies you encounter. Unlike Shining Force II on the Genesis, the first “book” of Shining Force CD is more of a direct sequel to the original Shining Force, focusing on a generation of heroes directly descended from the warriors in the original game (for the most part). Thankfully they reversed course, and a year later, in 1995, North American Sega CD owners were treated to Shining Force CD. So I’m not sure why Sega decided to bundle up the first two GG Shining Force games onto one disc for the Mega CD in Japan in 1994, but I wasn’t surprised when Sega of America initially stated they had no interest in bringing Shining Force CD to western shores. The Sega CD was nearing the end of its life as well, and again, hadn’t set either market on fire. The Game Gear was getting pretty long in the tooth by 1994, and had never been remotely as popular as Nintendo’s Game Boy in either Japan or North America. Sega was in a weird position with these games. Of the three Game Gear Shining Force releases, only the middle one got localized and released in English. Shining Force III Scenarios two and three were most famously left in Japan, but it wasn’t the first time Sega of America skipped a game or two in the series. It makes sense, since there were nine of them across the Genesis, Sega CD, Game Gear and Saturn.īut English releases of those games were sporadic at best. And while the series included dungeon crawlers and zelda-style action games, the Shining Force games definitely dominate most people’s memories when the series comes up in conversation. At least up until the point they were bastardized into whatever they are today. I’m a huge fan of Sega’s Shining series of RPGs.
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