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* [[Character Tiers]]: To list the examples would take ages. Teel;deer version: There's a buttload of differences per each game. Even worse is when there's Tiers within the own ''classes''. (This is due to [[Loads and Loads of Characters]], of course.)

* [[Cliché Storm]]: Most notable in ''Shining Force II'', somewhat less so in the original.

* [[Damsel Scrappy]]: Princess Elis in ''SFII'' for a lot of players, especially because she [[Ship Sinking|sinks]] the [[Fan-Preferred Couple]]. See [[But Thou Must!]] on the main page.

* [[Demonic Spiders]]: Chimaeras in the first game. High defense, high HP, high speed (roughly 1 in 12 physical attacks from any party member will hit), and powerful attacks. They are far more common than the blue dragons, armed skeletons, and horsemen that appear alongside them, and far more likely to cause internal bleeding from player blood pressure.

* [[Ear Worm]]: ''Shining Force I'' and ''II'' are full of short, catchy looping tunes. If you have played either, the battle theme will be with you until the day you die.

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Amongst the characters in ''Tears'', Neige is easily the most popular. It helps when you realize just who the hell her voice is.

** From it's sequel, [[Shining Wind]], we have Rouen. A badass wolf voiced by [[Tetsu Inada]].

** Zylo from the first game and Slade from the second are both well-liked.

* [[Even Better Sequel]]: The first game was certainly a very good game in it's own right, but there are few who would tell you that the second didn't take every single aspect that made it good and polished it to a shine. (Including balance issues!)

* [[Goddamned Bats]]: Literal example. They'll surround you, they'll dodge all your attacks, and they'll put your character to sleep for a few turns, or occasionally poison them. Luckily they can't dodge magic attacks.

* [[Memetic Mutation]]: [[Dull Surprise|"Now bear my Artic Blast."]]

* [[Most Wonderful Sound]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzh-PoPls7w&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL0F4BC380FD9B628B The join theme] of ''II''.

* [[Polished Port]]: ''Shining Force CD''

* [[Scrappy Mechanic]]: The Dwarven blacksmith in ''Shining Force II''.

** Evasion rates in earlier titles, ''especially'' the first game.

** The first game also has plenty of balance issues, too. The remake also received some criticisms for many tropes it helped create alongside ''[[Fire Emblem]]''.

** Also, after playing ''Shining Force CD'' and ''Shining Force II'', it can be hard to go back to playing the first one again.

* [[Tear Jerker]]: {{spoiler|Kane's death in the first Shining Force game, Oddler/Oddeye's death in the second.}}

** Iom, from ''Shining Force Gaiden II: Sword of Hayja''. Yes he's a [[Final Boss]], but he has to be one of the hardest final bosses in the series. Dark Dragon and Zeon really have nothing on him. First off you have to contend with overpowered [[Mooks]] attacking you while you try to fight the insanely over-powered Iom, who not only are powerful enough to be bosses themselves (from the previous couple of battles at least) but [[Respawning Enemies|infinitely regenerate after you defeat them]] <ref> There's a trick though. Place a character over the space where the mooks regenerate and they can't come back anymore.</ref>. Then there's Iom himself, who is invincible until attacked with the Sword of Hayja, and even after that his HP is about 300. His 'demon breath' will easily cost your character 30 HP (and by then most of your best characters will have between 40 and 50 HP), and he's quick enough to be able to do it twice in a row before your character has the chance to heal.

 

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