Just beat Shining Force for the 1st time (Genesis)

[steven]

wow what a game. I fired it up tonight facing the 3 dragons not expecting to win. It was more of an on-going learn bit-by-bit how to best beat the dang thing.

When I lost men left and right, and had something like 7 soldiers left, I said I had no chance, but kept playing to level up.

But I managed to destroy the right head.... made my way to the left, down to 5 soldiers now.... killed the left... and only the middle remained, with barely enough firepower to beat it (Max, Zylo and one wizard). I had the geezer standing on the right pothole (so no skeletons would come out) and I had Guntz on the left.

There's nothing like beating a game you been playing for over a week, when you least expect to beat it. My question is, are there two endings? I thought I had the bad ending....

SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


They were talking about me perishing and guarding the Dark Dragon. I sat through the credits feeling a bit ticked my guy suffered such a fate. But after the credits, they had some villager bloke speaking to what we assumed to be a robot... til the screen scrolls and you see your guy!

"What is your name?"

"My name.... you can call me...."

He turns to look at you.

THE END

sweet!

[ReyVGM]

There's only one ending.

[Sac (a.k.a Icaras)]

(Spoilers)

Later games in the series confirm that Max did indeed survive, and that he went off to start his life over.

Shining Force 2 reveals that some members of the original Shining Force realised this and chased after Max.

There was also a GameGear Shining Force game that acted as a bridge between 1 and 2 that featured Max as a playable character again.

[Weasel]

Didn't the Game Gear Shining Force games (the first two, anyway) get remade for Sega CD? Or is Shining Force CD considered a completely different entity?

[megatronbison]

wildweasel said:

Didn't the Game Gear Shining Force games (the first two, anyway) get remade for Sega CD? Or is Shining Force CD considered a completely different entity?

more ported than remade- and they added a bonus chapter as well as a super, duper boss battle.
I would recommend grabbing its rom- cause I got to the end of the second chapter and then didnt have the memory on my Mega/Sega-cd for the 3rd parts save

[bioniccommando83]

The original Shining Force still holds a very special place in my heart (though ironically SitD and SF II hold a dearer one). It's still one of the first and best strategy RPGs of the day, helped innovate the genre, and featured the Shining world, of which I have a great fondness for (and plus Dark Sol remains one of my favorite video game villains- at least in his SitD and original SF I reiterations). Never the less, the ending of the original was pretty cool, though I'd have been amused if they'd taken it a step further a la Phantasy Star II and not included the extra scene after the credits.