Shining Force: The Legacy of Great Intention -- Final Opinion.

The end credits have rolled on Shining Force. The game is as charming and fun today as it originally was fifteen years ago. Climax Entertainment's Shining games all feature the same basic art style, although it might vary from title to title slightly. It's a bright and colorful and an especially distinct art style among Japanese developers. I absolutely adore it. The game features beautiful albeit simple overworld and battle background art. The town graphics are the very definition of simple and clean. The characters animate well in the battle cutscenes. The story is straightforward and simply told, and the game is better off for it. No stupid plot twists or overwrought drama to be found here. The music, especially in the battles, is exceptionally catchy in a dramatic film score kind of way. It's very operatic in nature. I'm giving Shining Force: The Legacy of Great Intention, the second time around, a 9. Now if SEGA and Nintendo would be so kind and get the superior Shining Force 2 up on the Virtual Console, I'd be ever so grateful. By the way, my final Shining Force was composed of Max (the hero), Tao, Gort, Diane, Zylo, Kokichi, Guntz, Domingo, Torasu, Lyle, Hanzou, and Musashi.