New Shining Force game

[Tobi]

In an interview printed in this week's Famitsu magazine, Tsuyoshi Sawada -- the main force behind Sega's Shining series of role-playing games -- mentioned that a new title in the brand will be announced before very long.

"It's been ten years since the Shining series was re-invented," Sawada commented. "Currently, we're preparing a title that sums up the whole series and should provide an answer to users' curiosity. I can't give details yet, but I'd like to reveal it before we go too far into the future."

The Shining series, which debuted in 1991 on the Sega Genesis, comprises a total of 28 releases, counting remakes and multi-scenario titles. The series fell formant for several years after 1998's Shining Force III on the Saturn before getting rekindled by Grasshopper Manufacture's 2002 release Shining Soul. "Shining is a long-running series, but development work largely stopped on it for a period of time," Sawada said. "We redeveloped and resurrected the name as Sega shifted from hardware to software, and the goal for the games I've worked on is to target a large swath of the userbase and do something that hasn't been done before with the series. That's still the direction I take today."

http://www.1up.com/news/shining-game...ncement-coming

[Scythiroth]

Never got around to playing the Shining Soul games since they completely changed the genre, but this news has me very excited as long as they are going back to strategy RPG. Really looking forward to this news though, Shining Force 1 and 2 were some of my favorite games a long time ago.

I am slightly worried though, I don't see them directly saying it will be a new Shining Force game, but just a new game in the Shining series.

[Tonko]

Shining Force III is tied for my favorite game ever with Secret of Mana.
I played all 3 discs, and the premium, and I am really hoping they keep it true to the Shining Force roots.

[rezn0r]

nice, pretty excited to hear this along with the newer phantasy star news... but lately i just have to be apprehensive with sega series. hopefully it's good.

[Trichocyst]

I had been playing Shining Force 2 a lot lately, but never had a chance to play 3. Is there a decent Saturn emulator working out there? I have a Saturn, but I don't know if it works.

[Tonko]

I've never been able to get the emulators for Saturn working -_-

[Charismatic]

Never played 3, but I did play 2 back in my Genesis days as a young grasshopper. Also, Shining Force Neo (which I didn't much like) I hope this is a return to the TRPG style gameplay.

[izembo]

Do Want

[Rokku]

Do want if it's a TRPG, if they're still going with the Shining Wind, etc, style of gameplay then not sure if want.

[izembo]

yeah, id rather not have another shining force neo/exa, but really, at least at this point some hope is better than none. kinda disappointed we never got shining force feather

[Ayn]

HOT STUFF COMING YOUR WAY.

[izembo]

oh goddamn it, i never want to hear that ever again.

[Charismatic]

HOT STUFF COMING YOUR WAY.

Seriously, that was the one thing that prevented me from getting very far into the game. I understand that you can take her out of your active party eventually (I think) but I never made it that far simply because of that one quote.

[Rokku]

HOT STUFF COMING YOUR WAY.

Hahaha, oh man

[Trichocyst]

I found a Saturn emulator that looks like it will run nicely, but I can't seem to get this particular game to work, but it could just be the rom.

[Talint]

I had been playing Shining Force 2 a lot lately, but never had a chance to play 3. Is there a decent Saturn emulator working out there? I have a Saturn, but I don't know if it works.

I believe I used SSF to play Burning Rangers back in September. I had no issues whatsoever.

The more difficult part is finding a BIOS I believe.

As for the topic at hand:

Hasn't been a good Shining game since the Takahashi brothers left Sonic Team/SEGA. Not even remotely interested at this point.

[Charismatic]

Hasn't been a good Shining game since the Takahashi brothers left Sonic Team/SEGA. Not even remotely interested at this point.

Googled them, no wonder Beyond the Beyond's interface looks so much like the Genesis Shining Force games and why SF 1-3, Beyond the Beyond and Golden Sun all feel somewhat similar.
I guess I've always been a fan without even knowing it.

[Trichocyst]

SSF seems to be working, but it said that it couldn't play the ROM I had.

[Brill Weave]

It's difficult for me to get excited about this. I loved Shining Force 1, 2, and 3. Loved them. I thought they were great. Then those of us in the states never got the last two discs of Shining Force III(imagine playing FF VII with it ending on disc one.) I wasn't going to import them etc. Then all of the other "Shining" titles where not even close to the same quality. Every single Shining game after Shining 3 is complete and total ass.

[izembo]

while i agree with that, my love for 2 is so high that i must hope