It hasn't aged well. Back in 1993, it was pretty much this or the NES Fire Emblem games... IF you were Japanese. For America, as far as turn based-strat JRPGs went, this was IT.
However, since then, America's gotten things such as the Advance Wars games, Super Robot Wars (at least the OG games), Final Fantasy Tactics and its followups, Tactics Ogre... All games that do the same thing Shining Force did, but better.
Basically, nowdays it's a monument to why "retro" isn't mainstream any more - most things have been improved upon drastically when it comes to video games, and those that don't get improved upon (God of War 2, Super Mario World, and the Guilty Gear X series come to mind as stellar examples of their genres) just get polished to a mirror shine and then hammered into the ground until nobody WANTS to play them any more.
I still love the hell out of the original two Shining Force games, be it nostalgia or otherwise.
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Date: 2010-10-30 06:19 am (UTC)However, since then, America's gotten things such as the Advance Wars games, Super Robot Wars (at least the OG games), Final Fantasy Tactics and its followups, Tactics Ogre... All games that do the same thing Shining Force did, but better.
Basically, nowdays it's a monument to why "retro" isn't mainstream any more - most things have been improved upon drastically when it comes to video games, and those that don't get improved upon (God of War 2, Super Mario World, and the Guilty Gear X series come to mind as stellar examples of their genres) just get polished to a mirror shine and then hammered into the ground until nobody WANTS to play them any more.
I still love the hell out of the original two Shining Force games, be it nostalgia or otherwise.