You use the mythril to improve your innate abilities. You use this gold to improve yourself by having a blacksmith improve your weapons and armor. Sometimes they drop gold, mythril, or items sometimes you find gold, mythril or items lying around or in treasure chests. In Shining Force EXA, you choose one of two people (and up to two companions) to go through a dungeon or field, killing enemies by pressing X repeatedly. You use this gold to improve yourself by buying better equipment back in town. Sometimes they drop gold or items, sometimes you find gold or items lying around or in treasure chests. For those of you who have never played Diablo or Diablo II, it involves a person going through a dungeon and killing enemies by clicking the mouse button repeatedly. Story reeks, 68%.Īs mentioned earlier, the gameplay is very Diablo-esque. Oh, and the fifth element is indeed love, if you were wondering. Add to that the fact that the main character’s voice actor engaged in constant over-acting, and you have a story not worth mentioning or remembering. The characters’ dialogue is pretty banal as well and didn’t stir any particular emotions in me. There’s even a prissy robot, damnit! A – prissy – robot! Seriously Japan, TRY HARDER! When you take a cookie-cutter story, throw in to-form character archetypes, and combine it with button-mashing gameplay, you aren’t exactly aspiring to great heights. EXA has all your key J-RPG elements: dumb but good hearted main character, wise advisor, aloof love interest with a mysterious secret weight on her shoulders, and the hungry one. The story holds no surprises that anyone who has ever played a J-RPG couldn’t see coming, and it simply reinforces the idea that Japanese RPGs really have very little effort put into the story. From thence forward, you get to play a more free-form Diablo with fetch quests. However, Toma’s more pressing urge prompts him to attempt restoring all the functions of the Geo-Fortress so that he can become king of the entire land and put an end to the fighting. Apparently this is nothing new, and Toma finds he is only one of many Heritors that has been tasked with the sealing. Toma pulls the sword and becomes the Heritor, the person destined to seal away the dark god Malxatra once more. Surprisingly, finding and acquiring Shining Force and the giant Geo-Fortress that houses it is one of the first things that happens in the story.
Each character has his or her own reasons for finding the sword, but Toma wants it to stop the war between the two empires of Noswald and Fyrlandt. Along with your cohorts, Gadfort the centaur, Maebelle the elf, and Cyrille the mystic sorceress, you are in search of the holy sword Shining Force. Thing is, this one isn’t SO bad, despite it being an action RPG Shining Force title.
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When Sega decided that the series was better interpreted as action RPGs rather than as strategy RPGs, the franchise died, I was sad, but I healed and moved on, carefully avoiding every Shining Force game thereafter.Įnter Shining Force EXA, another in the long string of bad ideas from Sega. Ever since Shining Force III, there has not been one redeemable Shining Force game.
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