Tuesday 24 April, 2012

Tried to find a good strategy RPG to play, and my blessings were found - Shining Force! I never played the game before, but it reminds me of when I played Landstalker due to the look and feel of the UI. I haven't played Fire Emblem yet so I can't make a comparison to anything else except for FF: Tactics, but this sure beats the GBA version of it (no referees... yay!). Really don't like how most battles have to be restarted if the opposition's too tough to sort of "grind" through the game. It's a very weird cycle, and after going through it once, makes the game less meaningful after going a few rounds.

I guess I'll go through the entire game and hope that the endgame is actually really neat and customizable. But am I putting hopeless faith onto an old-school game?

EDIT: One thing I have to add though. The music! Reminds me of good ol' Warcraft, with the marching snare drums and all. Visually, the colors were so sharp though, they easily make me dizzy while playing on the go.

Is this the same as the original Sega one from way back when? I used to LOVE that one when I was a kid.

1993 Sega version. I presume it was on the Genesis then.

What puzzles me is, why didn't I play this as a kid? I would've loved it since I was a chess junkie then too. And my dad and I would always try to look for good Genesis games since it was all we had.