Unfortunately, if you lived outside of Japan, it was unlikely that you have experienced either of them to their fullest. Trilogy-based Stories? Shining Force has Two of Them!
While the three “Shining” games on the Mega Drive / Genesis were not the console’s only strong RPG offerings, the characters present in Shining Force II felt like they filled a void in the console’s repertoire that Nintendo had more than covered. The depth of the characters in Shining Force II made it perhaps the closest thing 16-bit era Sega had to compete with Nintendo’s much more diverse library of character-driven jRPGS, spearheaded by Squaresoft amongst other giants in the genre at the time. More detailed sprites, noble villains, detestable demons, and a much longer, more drawn-out main story. Shining Force introduced the western world to what the tactical RPG could be with the right attention to detail, then Shining Force II came along and did everything the first game did, except better. Shining Force II, released just one year after the first Shining Force, is perhaps one of the most well established games in the franchise, being one of Sega’s most prominent offerings during a period where the so-called console wars were at their peak. With the framework to a universe established, Camelot moved forward in developing more ambitious titles.
While each game is a standalone tale, tidbits pertaining to the plot and character relationships found in each are hidden within others.
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The stories of the games do not occur in chronological order ( Shining in the Darkness actually takes place after quite a few of the Shining Force games), thus the collective lore of the collective Shining series is a bit complicated to unravel. Shining in the Darkness even established the primary antagonist of Shining Force and many of its sequels with Darksol and his lineage. This carried on through to Shining Force the following year, along with the universe the game was set in, as many of the early games in the franchise allude to some of the same locations and characters. One of the main focuses during development of Shining in the Darkness was a realistic experience, so special attention was given to graphics and sound design. In fact, the first one to be released chronologically was Shining in the Darkness, a first person dungeon crawler turn-based jRPG for the Mega Drive / Genesis released in 1991. Shining Force is part of a series of “Shining” games. The cinematic nature of this design choice coupled with the charm of the individual characters gave the game a level of depth that was still rare amongst the fresh new generation of 16-bit games.įrom here, a legacy that spanned throughout the 90s and into the next decade began, and although none of the games ever became explosively popular in the mainstream, they have established a loyal fanbase that to this day has Shining Force amongst other titles permanently etched in their minds and hearts as one of the all time classics, if not the originator of the genre itself.
Well, beyond the new style of tactics-based strategy gameplay, Shining Force was able to appeal to a generation of gamers eagerly welcoming the 16-bit era and its technological advancements into their living rooms with superior aesthetics as well with detailed, full-body-sized sprites for both the friendly and enemy units as combat played out, and similarly intricate character portrait art displayed during scenes with spoken dialogue. So how did this new genre make a splash with console gamers in the West who were still mostly unacquainted with Japanese style RPGS?
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It was on the Mega Drive / Genesis with Camelot Software Planning (Also known as Sonic Software Planning in honor of Sega’s mascot)’s Shining Force however, that this style of tactical RPG would leave Japan to establish a foothold in the west and the rest of the world.
There, some of the long-standing classics like Fire Emblem and Famicom Wars made their debuts. Tactical RPGs gained popularity over the late 80s in Japan, starting on PCs like the NEC 80 before moving onto consoles such as the Famicom.
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