Shining Force

[Vyk]

Hm. I'll stop ranting about other-forum drama. But when abouts were you active there? I wonder if I knew you in another forum-life lol

[Polnareff]

^ Props for the extensive write-up, we needed one of those!

I played one of the Game Gear ones, Shining Force Gaiden: Final Conflict, which is the same battle system but with towns only being menu-based like in FFT. I played it to get ready for Shining Force II in HD on the Ultimate Collection and it actually has a pretty good story with the same great combat and characters. Music from SFII as well. There really wasn't a whole lot to tie in but it was pretty good overall, I'm glad I played it at the very least to make me more experienced with the combat.

It's smurfin' scary how well Shining Force transferred to the Game Gear; I mean the graphics and animations were IMO almost as good as the Genesis games. Camelot were able to pump a lot of power out of the Game Gear with those games.

Yeah the story is good. Well, what little I could understand of it anyway. :P I mostly played Sword of Hajya since it was in English.

Right now my aim is to try to find Shining Force III (an uphill battle, I know). I had a friend who had the game but I haven't seen the guy in like 10 years. Because of him I was able to play it.

I also have another friend who loves Shining Force, at least 1, 2, and Resurrection. He's never played any of the others. For his birthday I'm thinking of getting Sword of Hajya and a Game Gear for him.

[Bolivar]

It's smurfin' scary how well Shining Force transferred to the Game Gear; I mean the graphics and animations were IMO almost as good as the Genesis games. Camelot were able to pump a lot of power out of the Game Gear with those games.

Yeah the story is good. Well, what little I could understand of it anyway. :P I mostly played Sword of Hajya since it was in English.

Right now my aim is to try to find Shining Force III (an uphill battle, I know). I had a friend who had the game but I haven't seen the guy in like 10 years. Because of him I was able to play it.

I also have another friend who loves Shining Force, at least 1, 2, and Resurrection. He's never played any of the others. For his birthday I'm thinking of getting Sword of Hajya and a Game Gear for him.

I know, it's a shame the Game Gear and later Sega Nomad never caught on because they were so much more powerful than the Game Boy and even later Game Boy Color. In any case, the games were really good and with the exception of town wandering, was essentially another experience of the console games.

Sega should maybe look into PSN/XBLA translating and porting of titles like Shining Force III. I think the niche people who would download it would be enough to cover the, what, 5 guys you would have to pay to do it?

[Skyblade]

Hm. I'll stop ranting about other-forum drama. But when abouts were you active there? I wonder if I knew you in another forum-life lol

Years ago. Not sure when. But I am and have always been Skyblade, so if you knew me, it would be by that name.

The Nomad was an awesome system, but both it and the Game Gear drained batteries like crazy. And the Nomad was hard to find.

I never saw the Game Gear SF games though.

[Vyk]

I had a fondness for the Game Gear games because they were more like direct sequels than Shining Force 2 was. Especially for people who managed to get a ROM of (the finally translated) Shining Force: Final Conflict game to complete the Game Gear trilogy. Total pity it didn't make it into the SFCD collection