Eradicator30
09-03-2008, 07:55 PM
New Shining Force For The DS
SEGA is again bringing back one of it's classic franchises, and in the right way this time. 1UP (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3169728) is reporting that the Shining Force series is going to be seeing new life soon, this time on the DS.
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Set 3000 years after the events of the original Shining Force, Feather stars Gene, a self-centered and arrogant treasure hunter who was raised by a master swordsman but drummed out of his combat academy for insubordination. While snooping around an ancient ruin in search of loot, he stumbles across AL-FiN, an oddly naive young girl who calls Gene her "master" and claims to be a backup "core unit" for a long-lost airship used by the Shining Force itself millennia ago. The Force's exploits are all but forgotten by this era, though, and Gene (along with his partner in crime, a centaurus named Bale) are more than a little incredulous. Exactly how Gene and AL-FiN's story unfolds is still under wraps, but there's one bit of good news for art-obsessed RPG dorks: character designs for Feather are being handled by pako (who previously worked on Shining Force EXA) and Noizi Ito, who's best known among anime fans for her contributions to cult hit The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
Like other games in the series, Shining Force Feather is an RPG with a decidedly strategic bent, with you moving a small army around like so many pawns in a turn-based battle simulation. Unlike previous sim-oriented Shining Forces, though, the fights themselves are action-style. Whenever you choose an enemy, the scene shifts to a side-scrolling battle landscape that's highly reminiscent of Square Enix's Valkyrie Profile games -- you actively control your fighter, assigning actions to each of the DS's face buttons, as he or she wails away at the bad guy you selected.
SEGA is again bringing back one of it's classic franchises, and in the right way this time. 1UP (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3169728) is reporting that the Shining Force series is going to be seeing new life soon, this time on the DS.
Quote:
Set 3000 years after the events of the original Shining Force, Feather stars Gene, a self-centered and arrogant treasure hunter who was raised by a master swordsman but drummed out of his combat academy for insubordination. While snooping around an ancient ruin in search of loot, he stumbles across AL-FiN, an oddly naive young girl who calls Gene her "master" and claims to be a backup "core unit" for a long-lost airship used by the Shining Force itself millennia ago. The Force's exploits are all but forgotten by this era, though, and Gene (along with his partner in crime, a centaurus named Bale) are more than a little incredulous. Exactly how Gene and AL-FiN's story unfolds is still under wraps, but there's one bit of good news for art-obsessed RPG dorks: character designs for Feather are being handled by pako (who previously worked on Shining Force EXA) and Noizi Ito, who's best known among anime fans for her contributions to cult hit The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
Like other games in the series, Shining Force Feather is an RPG with a decidedly strategic bent, with you moving a small army around like so many pawns in a turn-based battle simulation. Unlike previous sim-oriented Shining Forces, though, the fights themselves are action-style. Whenever you choose an enemy, the scene shifts to a side-scrolling battle landscape that's highly reminiscent of Square Enix's Valkyrie Profile games -- you actively control your fighter, assigning actions to each of the DS's face buttons, as he or she wails away at the bad guy you selected.