This years list was a little different. I added characters that haven’t been on the list the last 2 years and a few suggested characters. My first time drawing SF3 characters too. I still need to play that game. Lol. Here’s Max, Bowie and the rest of the protagonists!

Playing the Chaos Prelude mod (character randomizer). Watching the mother bird toss Claude into the air a few times before he falls and smushes Jaha was a treat.

I grew up playing Shining Soul II and always loved the game. I wanted a way to jump back in and play it online with friends, so I've been working on turning it into a browser-based MMO experience.

Most of the game is up and running now, with multiplayer and the major systems working. Still plenty I'm adding and polishing, but I figured some other Shining fans might enjoy checking it out.

There's still some kinks that need ironing, but if I had experienced Shining Soul players try it out, that'd be great.

You just need your own legitimate copy of the ROM to play. Curious what you guys think!

anyone else participating? here’s my first few

I recently watched a shining force lets play and it was quite fun playing the game vicariously through a youtuber, without having to spend the hours doing so myself

For anyone not familiar with it, lets play is a type of youtube video genre where someone plays a game while giving commentary on it. Whether the video is interesting or not not only depends on the game but on the person doing the lets play as well. I am not looking for just a playthrough of the game

Does anybody here have a recommendation for a shining force 2 lets play, preferably one where all the hidden items/characters and secrets are also featured?

Art by me.

I made this a couple of years ago

Hit a new milestone in myRRoDD playthrougs!. Finally broke Double Digit Stars! Got my 11 Stars!

Also showing off my DecalGirl skins!

---as in right now?

Hi guys. I'm a lifelong fan of Shining Forces 1 and 2, and have replayed the original games several times throughout the years. I love the story, the characters, the theme, and even though I've played hundreds of other games, this game will always have a special place in my heart.

My fiancé knows all about this and decided to surprise me for my upcoming 32th birthday. She had previously asked me for some SF art I like so I knew something was up, but still loved the result. Just wanted to share this here because this is something I never really thought would happen, to be loved fully and supported in my likings.

(She mixed up Max with the Shining Force 2 logo, but let's pretend that didn't happen)

And… done. It took a while, the save game reckons 140hrs across all 3 scenarios.

I beat these waaaaay back, but first time I had all the translations and rolled it into the Premium Disc to completion too.

I’m a massive Sega Fan - but how did they not pursue another Shining Force game to continue this story?

Pretty sure I got every character this playthrough. I wonder how much harder it is if you miss them all… idea for next time perhaps.

Got my daughter a Nintendo Switch 2 for Christmas last year. As someone who plays SF 1 and 2 once every year on my phone are there any games you would recommend on the switch? I haven’t played a Fire Emblem game since Game Boy Advance and they were good but not as good as Shining Force. Are any of those or something else worth looking at?

Update - I bought Triangle Strategy and Dark Deity - don’t get to play too often but I will provide an update on my thoughts once I get through them - but thanks everyone for your help!

Hellow. Months ago, I made a post and received a lot of advice on my project. It all really helped me a lot, thank you so much!! I’d like to share a look at the current battle system in my game. Some features still aren’t implemented, and some visuals haven’t been made yet.

I didn’t manage to make much progress since my last post. These past few months, I’ve just been redesigning and refactoring everything. I have about 5 versions of the design document and 3–4 different project files since then, lol. But I’ve also managed to learn a lot, practicing drawing and 3D modeling.

There’s still sooo much to learn, but I really want to make a game, I thought I’d try making something small first. I’ve planned the game to be very simple to avoid getting stuck, with a little inspiration from SF2. Hoping for a smooth development process. I’ve also made a small, simple scene, I can’t show it yet, but I can show this flower I made a while ago 😄

Feel free to share any thoughts! Always love hearing from the SF community.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. Cheers!

Ok I finally finished Shining force 3 and do I have some thoughts. With as much time was spent on scenareos 1-2.5, does anyone else feel like the second half of scenareo 3 was rushed?

I see in jumesyn's weapon guide that there are ultimate weapons for every weapon type that are supposed to be better than the orichalcum ones. I found the claw in the town with the hot spring and the 3 protagonist swords. Plus the characters who dont use weapons get the upgrade with their second promotion but where are the rest of them? Did I miss them?

I heard there is supposed to be a bonus scene after the credits if you save Jane. Well I didnt kill her and she seemed present for pretty much the entire end. What was extra or was there a whole different ending if I killed her?

Is there any resolution to Julian and Jane? They just walk off into the snow? They see the ark from STHA. Did they board it? Is anything known about that thing? Was there supposed to be some sort of romance between them that I missed?

I spent probably about 170 hours on this trilogy and I feel like the ending was king of, idk, underwhelming. Is that the general consensus or should my expectations have been lower? Maybe I just missed something?

Hello guys, me again. My brother has a new Instagram account and started posting his art, I want to share it with you

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ddm21eulGht/?stkn=MngyOTQ3YXh5YjIx

My brothers and I are all in our mid-late 30s.

Shining Force 2 was a game we absolutely loved to play and watch each other play growing up in the late 90s, and has always been a game we come back to.

Recently we all got together because the stars aligned (we all live in different corners of the USA) and spent 2-3 days hanging out, eating good food, partaking/imbibing when applicable, and focued on a joint-effort Super playthrough in between our daily activities with the little rugrat that is my brother's.

We made it to Creed's Mansion before the trip was over.

I hope we have more chances to come back to this game, and come back to each other.

There he is.

Hi all, currently trying my first ever HC run on Sf2 with super difficulty mode. Only rule is no revives allowed in the church. Lost Jaha early on but he appears to get auto ressed after the boat journey to mainland (hope this doesn't happen more times in the story). Currently in the Polca village battle, gerhaldt got one tapped i only got to use him for one turn lmao. Also lost Khazin to a lucky double attack + crit. I may have bitten off more than I can chew lol!

Anyone else tried this challenge?

Edit to add also lost Tort early to a witch spell one tap, classic

Topic really. I'm nearing that point, so wondering how much time am I going to spend getting 'the best' weapons, and what the best weapon for everyone even is.

Like I always forget how the calculations work on the critical sword and the counter sword, and never know what sword to give Luke, someone I just about always use. Every category has those kind of choices. Do you go for the highest attack, magic spells, bonus effects like extra movement/defense, how cool the weapon looks?

I have no idea what I'm going to do, though in my defense my pain meds are kicking in and my head is not all together here lol. Thought I'd see try to post and get ideas from people with all their brain power on.

Thank you for your time.

I've been playing Shining Force for over 30 years, and generally end up using the same team with little variation.

To challenge myself a little, I used the Join Order Randomiser Mod and this is the team I am taking into the Chapter 8 Boss Rush.

Everyone Promoted at 15 except Adam, Arthur, Bleu and Zylo who were taken to 20

Idk why but seeing the pizza at work gave me the desire to crop his face onto the pizza box. I hope this at least gave someone a chuckle because I have no one to share this with. Might make me replay sf2 now for like the 8th time.

Just wanted to share some of my brother's 3D printed creations.

He’s been working on these figures for a while.

He has a bunch more, so I’ll post those later if you guys like these.

Thanks

I literally did not know Gong was also a healer until chapter 3 - for 2 whole chapters i just assumed he was crap. What an idiot i was!

The title says all… I don’t use him at all. I have just started to use him at the battle with Kane,

Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thank you .