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Gaming / Re: 2024 Endless Backloggery
« Last post by vladgd on May 19, 2024, 09:33:17 PM »5. Shining Force Gaiden
Difficulty- Easy
Time to complete- 18 hours
So the last game while very much ogre battle inspired, pretty much every single content creator to cover the game mentions Fire Emblem. And while I am not a fan of the Fire Emblem dickridery, and I have never played a single Fire Emblem game...I hear shining force is pretty similar...and it got me thinking about those games again...
I wanted to beat shining force cd, then having played it...it's not it's own game. It's a compilation of the first two shining force gaiden games on the game gear + a few bonus battles + one hard boss gauntlet. Being as the bonus battles use characters you leveled through the two gaiden games on the cd, and the fuckery with memory on the sega cd and you have to delete your gaiden 1 (or book 1 in this collection) save to even play book 2...nah.
I did beat book 1, which was the only way to play gaiden 1 in english. Already beat gaiden 2 a few years ago, known as "shining force sword of hajya" in english on the 3ds virtual console. Not much interest in the side content given the hoops you have to jump through to access it, it's more bonus content anyway and not a full game.
Gaiden 1 though, fun game. Do you like shining force? This is that, minus the explorable worlds, just battle to battle to battle, like in sword of hajya. Familar character tropes, main character is the "hero", you get a mage, healer, centaur paladin, yadda yadda. Balance is different so while you end up receiving similar types of characters in these games, who's good and bad tends to get changed up. Shining force 2 mages are "ok" and archers are mostly terrible, this game...mages are still "ok" but archers are fantastic. I think mages were better in 1? Either way these are mostly just simple quick to play srpgs with good presentation.
Worst part about this series, besides the fact that it's dead, and any new "shining" games are just random anime weeb games with nothing to do with the shining force universe or gameplay...is...a good few of these never got english releases. On game gear there is 3 gaiden games, we got 1...the second one...it's a trilogy...they aren't standalone...wat? There's a fantranslation of the third gaiden game I hope is fully playable, but I am having issues finding shining force 3...which...is the first...in ...a trilogy...of...shining force...3? There's a scenario 2, and 3, japanese only, no even hint they exist outside of hearing about them. So...that'll be a task.
AAAANYWAY, didn't really talk about the game much, but it's not really reinventing the wheel, these games are pretty similar at the end of the day, but I like em and can recommend em.
Difficulty- Easy
Time to complete- 18 hours
So the last game while very much ogre battle inspired, pretty much every single content creator to cover the game mentions Fire Emblem. And while I am not a fan of the Fire Emblem dickridery, and I have never played a single Fire Emblem game...I hear shining force is pretty similar...and it got me thinking about those games again...
I wanted to beat shining force cd, then having played it...it's not it's own game. It's a compilation of the first two shining force gaiden games on the game gear + a few bonus battles + one hard boss gauntlet. Being as the bonus battles use characters you leveled through the two gaiden games on the cd, and the fuckery with memory on the sega cd and you have to delete your gaiden 1 (or book 1 in this collection) save to even play book 2...nah.
I did beat book 1, which was the only way to play gaiden 1 in english. Already beat gaiden 2 a few years ago, known as "shining force sword of hajya" in english on the 3ds virtual console. Not much interest in the side content given the hoops you have to jump through to access it, it's more bonus content anyway and not a full game.
Gaiden 1 though, fun game. Do you like shining force? This is that, minus the explorable worlds, just battle to battle to battle, like in sword of hajya. Familar character tropes, main character is the "hero", you get a mage, healer, centaur paladin, yadda yadda. Balance is different so while you end up receiving similar types of characters in these games, who's good and bad tends to get changed up. Shining force 2 mages are "ok" and archers are mostly terrible, this game...mages are still "ok" but archers are fantastic. I think mages were better in 1? Either way these are mostly just simple quick to play srpgs with good presentation.
Worst part about this series, besides the fact that it's dead, and any new "shining" games are just random anime weeb games with nothing to do with the shining force universe or gameplay...is...a good few of these never got english releases. On game gear there is 3 gaiden games, we got 1...the second one...it's a trilogy...they aren't standalone...wat? There's a fantranslation of the third gaiden game I hope is fully playable, but I am having issues finding shining force 3...which...is the first...in ...a trilogy...of...shining force...3? There's a scenario 2, and 3, japanese only, no even hint they exist outside of hearing about them. So...that'll be a task.
AAAANYWAY, didn't really talk about the game much, but it's not really reinventing the wheel, these games are pretty similar at the end of the day, but I like em and can recommend em.