During the game’s final battles, I didn’t have the courage to send Max into the heart of conflict. Why? Because if he gets defeated, the game ends and I found out the hard way that one unlucky confrontation can accomplish that in the blink of an eye.
Rob Hamilton · June 8, 2006
While not exactly as famous as Final Fantasy or even Sega's own Phantasy Star series, Shining Force has quite a name among Sega RPG fans. Many believe Shining Force to be the first game in the series, although that honour really goes to Shining in the Darkness, a dungeon crawler…
sashanan · December 5, 2007
I bought Shining Force because of the cover. Back then I was on an RPG surge with little knowledge about the actual genre, so I bought most games that had artwork featuring anyone with a sword. (Yes, there is someone on the cover with a sword.) Which is childish, I know but had…
True · June 24, 2007
Shining Force was one of the first games to take full advantage of the Tile system for strategy RPGs. Later seen in games such as Advance Wars(GBA) and Final Fantasy Tactics(Playstation), the tile system didn't change much, if at all, which says that they certainly did something…
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