User Review: Shining Force EXA ps2 Radical reveiw ( 3 out of 5 )

Shining Force EXA ps2 Radical reveiw ( 3 out of 5 )

On 03/08/2013 at 01:06 AM by leeradical42

Shining Force EXA is a rpg with a twist and despite what the reveiws say on this game it is a fun game.

Breif history-- shining force exa is developed by Neveland and published by Sega for the playstation 2 console and the shining series which you may remember from the Sega genissis called Shining Force Ultra which was another if not better version in the series.

The story-- the story focuses mainly on two characters that the player will have the opportunity to control: Toma,a brash sword weilder who dreams of being King of the world, and Cyrille,a mage of sorts whos reasons for searching for the shining force are well kept mysterie, joining the other half of the party is Gadford a night who happens to be a centure, then theres Maebelle an elf archer seeking the blade to save her people.

The world is divided into two main kingdoms. The Noswald Empire is home to the humannrace, and the dens rule the southern territory, Fyrlandt.s

The gameplay-- Shining Force EXA has one new feature which i personally thought made an already good rpg great, the new feature is the customizable robot castle geo fortress. as a headquarters they also protect and defend this custom castle later you can upgrade the shops and add different levels to make it bigger,and the cool thing is you customize it to fit you saynyour a knight then sadles stuffed horse or a mage with a librarie or scroll table well you get my point.

In short most of the game is a hack in slash but is not boring or repetitive, everything is fresh and moves right along.

The voice acting and music well first off the voice acting is one of the weaker parts of the game and can be laughable but its not a deal breaker and the music is nothing special im sure you wont be out buying the soundtrack, So bottom line if you like rpgs you wont go wrong here, its funny because most people that follow my reviews know that I usually come up with some out there games that you may not of heard of but thats why i love my classic ps2 collection, but overall this game is an at least try.

Coolsetzer

03/08/2013 at 05:06 AM

Looks pretty cool. I totally missed this game. I do have Shining Tears, which I thought was pretty decent. I will have to check this one out. Also, by 3 out of 5, do you think this game is average but not very good? I ask because I wonder what your opinion is on this game. Also, can you tell me what other Shining games there are?

leeradical42

03/08/2013 at 08:35 AM

Its a good game but not without its flaws it has some big time lag when theres is alot goining on innthe game which hurts do to the fact its annaction rpg and the voice acting is very laughable not very good in the acting department but short of that its done very good I just couldnt give it a better score because of thoughs to issues and as far as others there was Phantasy star shining in the darkness and i beleive that was on the saturn the next game was shining force and shining soul not sure what system I think the saturn since they are sega games.

Surfcaster

03/08/2013 at 09:15 AM

The graphics and art style on this game look great.

03/08/2013 at 06:59 PM

for a ps2 game there pretty good i must agree.

Temperance

03/08/2013 at 03:26 PM

It's not easy being reminded of all these wonderful games I have sitting on my shelf. I have to use my PS2 soon (to play some Mega Man games), and I have to be careful of distractions like SF:EXA. I actually haven't completed this game yet (I fully completed Neo, though, and the Dreamcast Lodoss War game that plays indentical to it), but I do remember how fun it was for the little but I played.

That said, the Shining series is all over the place. Between Camelot's core strategy titles, you have a bunch of the action-rpg variants (Neo, EXA, Soul, Wisdom, Tears, Wind), dungeon crawlers like Shining in the Darkness and Holy Ark, and a whole set of others that include Feather, Ark, Blade, Hearts, and on and on.

03/08/2013 at 06:55 PM

Jeffrey i wish you would play some of your 80 plus games i bet you have ps2 games still in factory sealed lol hey question whats a good price for a sega saturn I found one for $30 but if thats so why are some of the games like lunar triple the price of the console.

03/08/2013 at 09:08 PM

If you found a working Sega Saturn for $30 (it might need some maintenance, however), that's a pretty good deal. As for the game prices, if you're asking about Lunar: Walking School, that was import which means its price is going to be pretty high.

Ranger1

03/08/2013 at 06:26 PM

Funny you posted this today. I actually had it in my hand on Wednesday at one of my favorite stores that still carries previous gen games and consoles. I wondered how it was. Might have to go back and see if it's still there.

03/08/2013 at 06:51 PM

Tami most definetly get it its a real fun game especially the customizing you own castle,I just hope you get the game and case and manual cause i got disc only and i hate buying games incomplete its a pet peave of mine.

03/08/2013 at 07:02 PM

It was complete and in original packaging. Bull Moose is pretty strict about that when they buy used stuff.

SanAndreas

03/08/2013 at 06:38 PM

I own this game. I bought it at a used game shop. I have never played it underneath my backlog, but it looks great.

I wish more of the recent Shining games would come ot, and I wish they'd do a full 3-D Shining Force game. I own Shining Force I & II on Steam and Shining Force III (Scenario 1) on Saturn.

03/08/2013 at 06:58 PM

yes i wish they wiuld make a game for the 360 in the shining series. not sure if spectral force 3 by atlus is part of the series but since its not sega it probable isnt.

03/08/2013 at 06:48 PM

I wonder if spectral force 3 was also in the shining series, I did a blog on it on 1up but im wondering i know Atlus made it.

PixlBit

Shining Force EXA ps2 Radical reveiw ( 3 out of 5 )

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