

A sequel has been released for the RingEdge arcade system in 2012, Shining Force Cross Illusion. Within one month, nearly 2,400 Shining Force Cross machines had been sold to arcade operators by December 31, 2009. It is a multiplayer role-playing game with support for up to eight players, both online and offline. On December 3, 2009, Shining Force Cross was released as an arcade game for Sega's RingEdge system board. For instance, while Shining Tears uses similar mechanics to Shining Soul II, it has less in common with Shining Wisdom than it does with any of the strategy RPG titles of the series.

The games it incorporates do not necessarily have any noticeable similarity in gameplay.

This incorporates: Shining Wisdom, Shining Soul, Shining Soul II, Shining Force Neo, Shining Tears, Shining Force EXA and Shining Wind. The third broad category of Shining games is the action role-playing game set of titles. The player controls characters with their own stats not generic unit types. The games generally limit the number of characters who can enter any one battle at a time to about a dozen.
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Shining the Holy Ark was released immediately prior to Shining Force III, and while it is also a dungeon crawler, it features a far more expanded gameplay world over the first title.įor the strategy games of the series ( Shining Force, Shining Force Gaiden, Shining Force Gaiden 2, Shining Force II, Shining Force Gaiden: Final Conflict, Shining Force CD, Shining Force III and Shining Force Feather), the player takes charge of a party in large-scale, strategic battles. Shining in the Darkness is the first game in the Shining series, and is a very simple labyrinth exploration game, with a simplified non explorable town and world map, where choices are made through a cursor system. Battles work very similarly to those of Dragon Quest, Mother, Shin Megami Tensei, and the fellow Sega RPG series Phantasy Star, in that they are first person and the player is placed in a position where the hero and team mates would be. In the dungeon crawler titles of the series ( Shining in the Darkness and Shining the Holy Ark), the player takes control of an adventuring party.
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Shining Resonance Refrain was released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Steam PC and Nintendo Switch worldwide across 2018. Other directions include Shining Soul, a dungeon crawl action role-playing game with roguelike elements, and a number of traditional Japanese role-playing games. The next game released in the series was Shining Force, which was a turn-based strategy style tactical role-playing game with battle scenes acted out with sprites (comparable to Fire Emblem). The first game, Shining in the Darkness, was a first-person dungeon crawler with randomly encountered, turn-based battles (comparable to Wizardry and Might and Magic). Shining ( シャイニング) is a series of role-playing video games developed by Sega.
