Shining Force -- Swift Strategy

Shining Force is my favorite game for the Sega Genesis. With the game now celebrating its 30th anniversary, let's take a look back and see what makes this a compelling SRPG to play, despite its age.

[@DezorianGuy]

I have not come upon a more charming game than the Shining Force Series (on the old consoles). The battle sequences are unmatched even by today's srpg games like FireEmblem. The beautiful color composition, the hand drawn art style, it is so full of love and joy.
Makes it even more incomprehendable to see where this series ended up...Shining Force Neo, Exa..and soon the gacha experience on mobile (yeah, it still comes).

[@patrickellison4234]

3:50 that's what I actually like about shining force

[@Andreopimentel]

there's a hack that fixes the inventory management on shining force

[@kjhansonkjhanson6643]

Glad you talked about the towns and secrets. I've played through it close to a dozen times and still miss one or two things. Also the card collecting in the GBA remake is pretty cool

[@maxstone9999]

This video should help you. I am also producing shining force content now (this particular video isn’t mine) ua-cam.com/video/VVsUYHk13VI/v-deo.html

[@turboDrowsy]

Nice review!

[@spectrelead]

I still play SF and SF2 to this day.
And, I kinda love how SF was a partial inspiration for FFT (even if not officially recognized as such).
As for crazy, SF is much less balanced than SF2. I've gotten a few +10 levels, but that's in probably a thousand levels total

[@danieladamczyk4024]

Good review lad.

[@RwnEsper]

After watching several Shining Force 30th retrospectives, I get the distinct impression that they had intended the enemies to be much more mobile and aggressive, but either technical limitations or difficulty concerns forced them to scrap a lot of enemy AI.
Looking forward to seeing your thoughts on the other games!

[@patrickellison4234]

At one point I got 22 attack by Arthur at level 16 in 1 level as well as 5 defense 2 mp 7 hp and 1 agility

[@luisreyes1963]

I do agree Shining Force is a great STRPG, but it does have it's shortcomings.
The character advancement system is convoluted at best, since the rate is uneven.
Also, the Robot in the game is even WORSE than Yogurt. 🤖

[@thevirginmarty9738]

Now I got to look up Fire Emblem.
I used to think that Shining Force was THE grid based battle system.

[@JoeFpoc]

Shining force 2 in my opinion was better in pretty much every way. I played sf1 after playing sf2 multiple times. Sf2 is way easier in comparison, sf1 crappy land effect maps, horrible stat gains and unpredictable enemies makes it more challenging. In 2 most battles you can just lure out one at a time and take them out