Shining Force NEO

[SomethingBig]

I still wanna play it, I find it hard to beleive that Sega makes a bad game. Thats kind of an Oxymoron now. I'll play it myself eventually.

That new Shadow the Hedgehog game looks like a disgrace to the Sonic franchise, as much as I love Sega.

Shining Force 2 was what probably got me into the RPG genre. I remember watching my brother play it, then hating it because you couldn't jump. I was 7 or 8, back then.

[Chzn8r]

Shining Force NEO' main character is named Max, just like the SFI's main characyer. I wonder if this is a retelling of the SFI story, but in a new battle system. Time will tell.

I thought we already knew that it's a retelling. But I may be remembering wrong.

[Vyk]

Oh gosh. I shoulda came to this thread sooner. I grew up on the Shining series. Played all the American releases. Even part of an obsessed Shining based message board. So I can tell you some pretty reliable information. Though if it's wrong, don't blame me ^_^

Anyway, Sega had announced some time ago, that even though the main character shares the same name as Max of the original Shining Force (there is also Kain, one of the main enemies in the original) those names are only used as a harald to the original characters. Its not a re-telling, and if I remember correctly, its not even in the same world as the rest of the Shining series. A lot of people had assumed that Max supposedly came from the past, that this might be a story of his life in that time. Sega said no. If they lied, sorry. But this game is supposedly completely stand-alone.

Though I really don't approve of Sega tacking on the name of Shining Force to it (since its basically not a Shining Force game) I'm still eager to test it out. Though I honestly can't stand the character art. Oh well. Back to lurking again.

[Aphelion]

I'm not a big fan of Shining Force myself, but I've played SF: Ressurection of the Dark Dragon and Shining Soul...They're both good games, though I heard the latter can't be compared to other Shining games...

I'm looking forward to this, just to see if the Shining series can still support the fame it gained on the previous generations.

[Erdrick Holmes]

I thin Sega should just remake SFIII sence the only way you could play it now is on a Saturn.

[Vyk]

Uh I play ISO on my compy ^_^;; And RotDD and SS are nothing compared to their predicessors x_x; Get the originals for emulator or something. Even the GameGear (which were ported for SFCD and are now coming to cell phones) games win over the GBA titles >.<

[Erdrick Holmes]

Yeah but it's impossible to play the SFIII game without a Saturn. Even Saturn emulation is impossible unless you havee a freaking BEAST of a computer.

[DJZen]

Saturns really aren't that hard to find, just look on ebay.

[Vyk]

I wouldn't really call my computer a beast... It is pretty new, but without a graphics card its not much more special than any other computer. Though I suppose it has a fairly fast processor. It seems capable of handling whatever it takes to run a Saturn game. So I guess it'd be doing the work of 2 or 3 processors? Can't remember. But really in my opinion, especially with typical computers these days, your biggest concern for Saturn emulation is the sound. My computer cannot re-create that sound. The games sound like crap most of the time, but otherwise run quite fine ^_^;

Er... sorry for going so far off topic XD I doubt anyone needs any precursors to play NEO since it's not supposed to have much to do with the other games.

[Erdrick Holmes]

Hopefully Sega puts more of an effort into getting this to the US fans. We got screwed on SFIII as it was rare and expensive. Plus Sega crews the US out of the other Shining games anyway, with bad translations and crap.