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798:. The Shining series never had an entry on the Dreamcast, due to various developers being busy with other projects and it being thought that it would be better to launch a new RPG instead, among other reasons. However, looking at the Japanese video game market, RPG's have the largest marketshare, so Sega decided to go ahead and restart the franchise, with a long-term plan, which included providing one game a year. This was new for Sega, people across different departments came together in 2001 to form what was called the "Shining Committee". The Committee included Takezaki himself, but also Youichi Shimosato who produced 539: 1973:
or any of the Game Gear installments) collectively as number 77 on their "Top 100 Games of All Time". They lauded the series for replacing the then-standard generic RPG encounters with story-based battles, using an exciting character class system, and having brilliant pacing that keeps the games from
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Enhanced remake that contains Shining Force I, II, and Shining Force CD that would be developed by HIVE with collaboration by Vespa. The game has been cancelled due to 90% of layoffs from Vespa inc., numerous of delays, and low funding for the game.
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Each game in the series has a standalone story, meaning that it is not required to play its predecessors to better understand its storyline. Nevertheless, most installments of the series prior to
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are some of the most closely connected pair of games in the series, since the former is a direct sequel to the latter and features return appearances by nearly all of the major characters.
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franchise. In charge of the so called "Shining Project" was Sega employee Tadashi Takezaki who joined marketing in 1993 and in 2004 was not only in charge of the
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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.
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franchise and the official Japanese Sega website. According to Takezaki, when you think of Sega RPG's, you think of
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are two of the most related games, having the largest number of characters and locations in common.
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operators by December 31, 2009. A sequel has been released for the RingEdge arcade system in 2012,
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onward, installments of the series tend to have less significant connections. For instance, in
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with support for up to eight players, both online and offline. Within one month, nearly 2,400
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Never officially released in English; however, fan translations are available.
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Never officially released in English; however, fan translations are available.
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often reference each other or have characters carried over. For example, in
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and afterward become the primary developer of the series with credits for
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developer Kan Naito in April 1990 to found the game development studio
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as a subsidiary of Sega. Sonic supported Climax in the development of
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as an independent studio in April 1994 in order to develop games for
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After Sega quit the hardware market, it was decided to reboot the
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than it does with any of the strategy RPG titles of the series.
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listed the Genesis and Sega CD entries of the series (but not
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in March 1991. With funding from Sega to continue work on the
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personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay
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a character mentions the Klantol Kingdom (the setting for
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with battle scenes acted out with sprites (comparable to
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Hiroyuki Takahashi's brother, Shugo Takahashi, founded
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brand would not be used for any new games until 2002.
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Index

Shining Force series
Genre(s)
Role-playing
Developer(s)
Climax Entertainment
Sonic! Software Planning
Camelot Software Planning
Nextech
Grasshopper Manufacture
Amusement Vision
Neverland
Flight-Plan
Media.Vision
Publisher(s)
Sega
Atlus
Infogrames Entertainment, SA
THQ
Shining in the Darkness
Shining Resonance Refrain
role-playing video games
Sega
Shining in the Darkness
dungeon crawler
randomly encountered
turn-based
Wizardry
Might and Magic
Shining Force
turn-based strategy

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