Now that I’ve fallen back into a Shining Force hole I want to convince all of my followers why, if you own a current gen consol or PC, you should buy the Sega Genesis Classics collection to play it and it’s sequel
For anyone unfamiliar, Shining Force was Sega’s answer to Fire Emblem on the Genesis

Except since FE didn’t make it stateside, that means us Americans just had SF

A fun, Tactical RPG but without the permadeath of the old FE games
The gameplay was solid if a little janky due to menu functions

But it’s greatest strengths were it’s character designs

Where FE was focused primarily on humans, SF included centaurs, dragons, beast people, robots, and elves as playable characters
The rest of this thread is going to be a look at some of my personal favorites first SF 1
And now SF 2
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