Shining Force 2

[Anonymous No.6629626]

Hahah. Anyway, playing Shining Force 2....I don't remember it being so damn wordy. It feels like every cutscene goes on for comedic lengths of time.

[Anonymous No.6629749]

20 IQ?

[Anonymous No.6629837]

>>6629626
what a shitload of fuck

[Anonymous No.6629943]

>>6629626
>baka gaijin to stupid for words
Same shit with Shining Force III and the Golden Sun games.

[Anonymous No.6629954]

>>6629943
>hey lets throw him
>wait
>ok got him
>throw him
>ok
>whoops we missed
>wait he's getting up
>he's jumping anyway
>wow hes brave
>he's hanging on
>dont let go or you will faill

[Anonymous No.6630287]

>>6629954
Worst part is that they retell information that the player already knows on events that happened moments ago, and not to mention the character interactions that drag for not reason than just to make the game longer.

[Anonymous No.6630878]

>>6630287
Sounds like something they always do for a dim-witted American audience

[Anonymous No.6631035]

>>6630878
Nah, the Shining games aren't known for having good writing. It's slightly above the level of SaGa writing.

[Anonymous No.6631453]

>>6631035
>he got filtered by unlimited

[Anonymous No.6631597]

>>6631453
You'd be hard pressed to find someone who wasn't.

[Anonymous No.6632529]

[Anonymous No.6632662]

>>6632529
>FOCE

[Anonymous No.6632768]

>>6629954
>implying the slapstick in SF2 wasn't fun as fuck

[Anonymous No.6632782]

>>6631035
I think SF1 had pretty decent writing, but then that's probably because there's very little of it. It's a very "tight" story. I want to say SF3 also had good writing, but then I remember how Scenario 3 felt a little bit unsatisfactory when it came to the resolution of the political intrigue and the Rainbloods. A bit of a missed opportunity.

[Anonymous No.6632784]

>>6632529
Which SF mage is the cutest? Tao in SF1? Sarah? Masqurin? I vote for Masqurin.

[Anonymous No.6632792]

>SEGA announces Shining cameo in PSO2
>oh_shit.png
>it's all nu-Shining
https://youtu.be/yYudNGMLYfA
I honestly don't know why I even let my hopes up, it's not as if SEGA has ever acknowledged old Shining outside of Mega Drive Mini and Game Gear Micro.

[Anonymous No.6632802]

>>6632784
Hard sell between Masquirin and Tao, but I like redheads so, Masquirin

>>6632782
Yeah the war had a bit of an eh, ending, but I think it was still reasonable enough, they tried to explain it well enough.
Even if the fights with the rainbloods and against your other armies was a bit wonky to say the least. At least the fight against the second army in Scenario 2 felt a bit more natural in why they would fight you.

Well that and the rainbloods just kinda lost their threatening aura by then.

>>6632792
What a shame, then again, what else was it gonna be.
>not even any Feather characters

[Anonymous No.6632836]

>>6632802
>the rainbloods just kinda lost their threatening aura by then.
Because they lost their cloaks! Or robes. Capes? Whatever, those things. By Scenario 3 they only had their funky armour on without the billowing cloak and it made them seem sillier. Also in Scenario 2 their weapons floated. FLOATED! Controlled by some unknown mechanism, the Rainbloods was able to wield their weapons with no physical arms.

[Anonymous No.6632851]

>>6632836
Oh right, I didn't even catch onto that.
And yeah the floating weapons were great. It should be a thing a bit more often, the mages do it in SF1 and 2 IIRC and I thought that was neat. There's also a mage in Ni No Kuni 2 that floats spears around that he throws at the enemy, or Kreia from Kotor. Bottom line is it just looks cool and threatening in this case.

I honestly also didn't expect them to talk, just kinda silently doing their jobs and removing whatever Domaric told them too, but then they got lines in 3, and kinda pulled some silly villain plot with Synbios and Medion.

[Anonymous No.6634438]

>>6632851
That pic reminds me of the crimson knights in Vandal Hearts who were actually pretty great

I never finished SF3

[Anonymous No.6634448]

The good times when the Shining series was made by Camelot and had quality. Now it looks like any generic weeaboo shit

[Anonymous No.6634553]

>>6632784
sarah isnt a mage. calling sarah a mage is like calling gong, arthur, or slade mages. i vote alef.

[Anonymous No.6634594]

>>6634448
Even back then Shining was very simple. It was carried mostly by its soundtrack and presentation.

[Anonymous No.6634743]

>>6632784

Obviously Mae, the equimancer.

[Anonymous No.6634842]

>>6634743
Ah damn, how could I have been soblind

>>6634438
I recommend it, SF3 was pretty fun, albeit it can be a bit of a slog sometimes.

[Anonymous No.6636547]

I love these little storytellers in the Shining games. Adds so much flavour and soul to the worldbuilding.

[Anonymous No.6636552]

Still the only time I got viscerally mad at an ending.

[Anonymous No.6637090]

>>6636552
i feel like its entirely her fault for literally never making a move. and then to throw a tantrum like that in front of everyone? what a baby bitch. i never had any pity or sympathy for her.

[Anonymous No.6637184]

>>6636552
I was weirded as hell, it came out of nowhere after you get the romantic mirin with the princess in a game nobody has much of a personality written. Game was done, why bring sudden drama.

[Anonymous No.6637310]

>>6637090
>woman
>making a move
Not how it works, bro.

[Anonymous No.6637653]

>>6636552
Same.

[Anonymous No.6637680]

>>6637310
lmao, right, because women never express interest. you sound like you're too young to be here.

[Anonymous No.6637685]

>>6636552
Bowie goes back to normal if you ditch the princess

he's literally being brainwashed by destiny cause someone broke the seal early

[Anonymous No.6637731]

There's also the racism at the end

>You can't marry him, he's from another race

Although I think the guy was a centaur, so things could be a little dangerous

[Anonymous No.6638442]

>>6637731
Yeah they weren't quite as open as other places in the setting going by that kinda dialogue. Unless that prophecy was really specific.

[Anonymous No.6638627]

Reminder that Justin is mixed race. He's listed as Half Centaur in the in-game book. Pic related.

[Anonymous No.6639470]

You've just defeated all evil threatening your homeland do you

1. Go back home and marry your horsewife that is crushing on you

2. Fake your death abandoning everyone you know and become a farmer somewhere

[Anonymous No.6639581]

>>6639470
If I choose the second route will Adam stick around and help me on the farm by giving me the succ

[Anonymous No.6640265]

>>6639470
My interpretation is that Max was washed ashore on some far away land that he's not sure he's capable of returning to Guardiana, hence why he's given up hope of coming back home. It's not that he's faked his death.
>>6639581
N-no homo...
Then again Adam is only male in name, since he's just a robot.

[Anonymous No.6640614]

>>6631035
>Shining games aren't known for having good writing

SHF3 has one of the best JRPGs plots imo

[Anonymous No.6640620]

>>6639470
>Fake your death abandoning everyone you know and become a farmer somewhere

he just took a couple of weeks of well deserved vacation before fighting evil again, showing up in Final Conflict as a playable character

[Anonymous No.6640628]

>>6638627

could a dude like Max even satisfy a centaur like Mae with his tiny human pecker or would he eventually be cucked by a dude like Ken with his huge horseschlong?

[Anonymous No.6640649]

>>6640628
For all we know, Max might've had a touch of centaur ancestry. Body is completely human except his cock is horse-tier. Imagine that.

[Anonymous No.6641647]

>>6640628
I never thought I'd regret not saving the posts about these matters.

>>6639470
He does show up in Final Conflict as >>6640620 points out, It's just that beyond him I think the only characters from 1 that are in those games are Anri, Lowe and Ken.

[Anonymous No.6642053]

>>6636552
Things work out for Kazin though

[Anonymous No.6643919]

>>6642053
Didn't one of the other games hint at that not working out super well in the end, Kazin chasing after trying to be a hero and Sarah looking for a hero type character, or something?

[Anonymous No.6645360]

which character is the coolest "unique" character? zylo? hanzou? slade? claude?

[Anonymous No.6646416]

>>6645360
Slade, because rats as party members are rare as hell.

[Anonymous No.6648396]

>>6645360
DOMINGO of course.

[Anonymous No.6648417]

>>6648396
I missed out on levelling that guy on my run, but he's a fun design.

[Anonymous No.6648450]

>>6636552
yo i was so mad. I had plenty of attractive guys in my group I could hook the princes up, while my heal mage was at my side every battle. fuck this shit.

[Anonymous No.6648457]

>>6646416
I was hoping his thief class would come as a benefit like stealing items from enemies or having a stealth ability, but no they just made him into a battlemage.

[Anonymous No.6648468]

>>6645360
Guntz