Shining Forces II
Shining Forces II (or Shining Force II: Ancient Sealing ) is a Tactical RPG of Sega left on Megadrive in 1993 with the Japan. It is about an episode of the series Shining, making following Shining Force .
Gameplay
The player directs a team (the Shining Force ) combatants or magicians to various competences. The play breaks up into two phases:- a part “ventures”, traditional, or the player explores cities, buys and sells objects, speaks with various characters and progresses in the scenario
- the engagements are held with the turn by turn and the player moves the characters of his team, tackles the enemies, fact of magics etc the playing field is represented out of boxes, with their characteristics of defense and attack. As in a roleplay the characters of the players evolve/move with the experiment and have specific equipment. During the release of an attack, launching of a fate or use of an object on the battle field, the camera comes to be placed behind the character of the team of the player, which gives one made very dynamic to the action.
Changes compared to Shining Forces
The play longer, is coloured more and animations are finer. The player will meet many characters sometimes enormously changing after their transformation (the characters can evolve/move, to change “class”, starting from level 20). The scenario offers some surprises, and makes travel the Shining Force on very varied decorations.
Development team
- Realization: Shugo Takahashi, Yasuhiro Taguchi
- Production: Hiroyuki Takahashi
- Programmers: Yasuhiro Taguchi, Shugo Takahashi, Karuki Kodera, Kenji Numaya, Yutaka Yamamoto, Tsukasa Tanaka, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Ritsuko Hisasue, Shuji Shimizu
- Design charts: Ritsuko Hisasue, Shuji Shimizu, Tatsuya Niikura
- Design characters: Suezen
- Graphics: Fumihide Aoki, Masayuki Hashimoto
- Type-setter musics: Motoaki Takenouchi
- Sound effects: Dogen Shibuya, Enzan Shibuya
- Manual: Naoko Okada, Riko Kushida, Masayo Umetsu, Junko Mikami
- Special Thanks : Winds Co. LTD., R.I.S Co. LTD., Rit' S Co., Chaki, Hiroshi Kajiyama, Satoshi Tezuka, Minoru Yasuda, Akira Takahashi, Satomi Yokose, Daichan Ikejiri
Comings out date
- With the Japan: October 1st, 1993
- In Europe: July 1994
- With the the United States: October 19th, 1994