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''[[Shining Force]]'' is a series of turn-based strategy games, and is part of a [[The Multiverse|larger franchise]] known simply as the ''[[Shining Series]]'', and was [[Tropes Are Not Bad|arguably]] [[Follow the Leader|Sega's answer]] to ''[[Fire Emblem]]''<ref>Not that many people in America will realize it unless pointed out, thanks to [[Marth Debuted in Smash Bros]]</ref>.
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''[[Shining Force]]'' begins in the kingdom of Guardiana, where the main character, Max, is put in charge of the titular Shining Force and charged with stopping an invasion from the rival Runefaust army. The army is controlled by Darksol, a mysterious cloaked man with aspirations to revive the monstrous Dark Dragon and use it to [[Take Over the World]]. It's a prequel to the first-person Genesis RPG ''[[Shining in the Darkness]]'', which featured Darksol's son Dark Sol (or, in Japan, Mephisto).
Its sequel, ''[[Shining Force]] II'', shifts the focus to the kingdom of Granseal, where an even ''greater'' demon lord named Zeon ([[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories|No]] [[Mobile Suit Gundam|relation]]) is sealed off by two jewels. A thief named Slade steals one of them, and thus breaks the seal on the monster. Zeon possesses the king of the neighboring Galam nation, causing him to do all sorts of freaky [[Evil Overlord]]-type deeds. This time, schoolkid Bowie and his three friends (Sarah, Chester and Jaha) form the core of the new Shining Force, and are sent to track down the jewels before Zeon can wreak any further havoc on the world. Takes place in the same world as the first game, although at the time there was only a [[Continuity Nod]] to prove it. (This game also suffers from the naming problems of the previous ones, referring to Darksol as Dark Sol, and Lucifer as Dark Dragon, an unrelated enemy from Shining Force I).
The ''Shining Force Gaiden'' games were released on the [[Game Gear]] (the first one never made it out of Japan), but were later [[Compilation Rerelease|repackaged]] and enhanced for the [[Sega CD]]. Of those, the first one stars Prince Nick of Cypress, who has to help Anri (part of the original Guardiana Shining Force who ascended to become Queen) find a cure for her poisoning at the hands of a rogue wizard named Woldol. At first, the people of Guardiana are suspicious of him, but eventually he turns out to be a trustworthy and effective leader, thus gaining their respect.
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Shining Hearts also gets a Anime Adaptation that started airing in as a part of the Spring of the 2012s.
Recently, a letter writing/video-uploading/fan-art showing campaign has been started by the fan community to reunite developer Camelot with Sega in time for the series' 20th anniversary. More information and ways you can contribute can be found here https://web.archive.org/web/20131025001634/http://sos.shiningforcecentral.com/
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* [[Action Girl]]: While the series is in no short supply, Sheela the Master-monk gains recognition even outside of the fan base; Her ditching of the [[White Magician Girl]] persona (with the exception of useful healing spells) to temper her body and eventual opening of her own dojo won her many a fan back in the day.
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Every now and then a character will have a mundane name (Max, Sarah, Nick).
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* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]]: You can only have 12 characters in each battle. This can sometimes lead to having to make painful decisions over who gets bumped from the team when a strong new character comes along.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: [[Curse|Cursed weapons]]. Despite sporting a far higher attack than even [[Penultimate Weapon|mithril weapons]], they carry negative drawbacks that make them undesirable. These include ebbing away at the wielder's hit points, [[Nerf|nerfing]] the wielder's strongest stats (Defense for Warriors, Movement for Knights; etc.), and even paralyzing them during an attack. Worse yet, they cannot be removed without the aid of a costly purification from a priest or a high-level detox spell.
* [[Back
* [[Badass]]: ''Plenty'' of examples.
** If you didn't read the above [[Annoying Arrows]] example with Lyle (SFI), then let this statement be an example: Once you put [[Big Badass Wolf|Zylo]] onto your team, chances are you will ''[[Lightning Bruiser|never]]'' remove him.
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* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: If your save file is corrupted in Shining Force II, ominous music plays while the witch informs you that it's corrupted. Yes, they designed the game to play appropriate music for ''losing your file''.
* [[Bring My Red Jacket]]: Sir Lemon [AKA the Red Baron before he finally exits the [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]] can revive himself from death after a battle, and wears armor that is ''precisely'' the color of blood -- because it's ''painted with the blood of his dead enemies''.
* [[But Thou Must!]]: Most egregious moment is in ''II'', where Thou Must go kiss the Princess Elis, the [[
** This is also used to force the player to forgive bosses after they're defeated, no matter how much of a [[Dirty Coward]] or [[Complete Monster]] they are.
* [[Can't Drop the Hero]]: It never lets you. And when the hero dies, it's a game over. But because of this, it leads to the hero typically being many times stronger than the other characters. See [[One Man Party]] below.
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* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: The whole story of Blanc Neige in ''Shining Tears''. And, no, [[An Ice Person|Her ice powers didn't defrost]].
* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: {{spoiler|Kane, in the first game.}}
* [[
* [[Doomed Hometown]]: The destruction of the first Granseal palace and town in SFII.
* [[Downer Ending]]: [[Subverted Trope]], the ending of the first Force game, where {{spoiler|Max is sunk under the water with the Chaos Breaker while a majority of the remaining of the force is [[Teleporters and Transporters|Egressed]] out scot-free,}} it is rather convincing until {{spoiler|you watch the cut scene after the credits, showing Max and Adam and alive and well}}.
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* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]
* [[Furry Confusion]]: Shining Force II has an anthropomorphic rat character named Slade, and later in the game there is a boss that is a real rat.
* [[Game Mod]]: For starters there's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGVf6Hdni7g Shining Force 2 CD-I], a fan-made [[
* [[Geo Effects]]: Terrain plays a role in giving a defense bonus, as well as a movement pentalty.
* [[Glass Cannon]]: Mages/Wizards, archers, and occasionally certain centaurs.
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* [[Kill Sat]]: In the remake of the first game, this powers a line of spells exclusive to Max.
* [[Kleptomaniac Hero, Found Underwear]] (Appears in II)
* [[
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* [[Landmark of Lore]]: ''SF II'' contains a [[Lost Technology|hidden]] [[Cool Ship|airship]] that has the same outline as the Nazca lines.
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** In the second game, Gunther the werewolf starts out looking like just a hairy man, but after he gets a promotion he starts looking more like a wolf.
* [[Powered Armor]]: Guntz's suit of steam armor and Kokichi's flying machine, both from ''SFI''.
* [[Rare Candy]]: The food items, like Quick Chicken boosts dexterity, Power Potions or Power Wines boost attacks, Defense Potions or Protect Milk rarises defenses, Bright Honey increases mana (MP), and Life Bread boosts HP.
* [[Random Encounters]]: Shining Force I has [[Averted Trope|no random battles whatsoever.]] Every battle is well distinguished from the others.
* [[Redemption Demotion]]: Lemon in ''SFII'' is significantly stronger when you fight against him (in fact he's almost a [[That One Boss]]) than he is when he joins your team. [[Handwaved]] by the fact that he's no longer being controlled by a demon spirit, but still.
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* [[Team Pet]]: Kiwi in the second game. In the first game, there's an extremely large number. Save for one (Bleu, who is plot-mandatory), all of these characters are [[Lost Forever|easy to miss]].
* [[Too Awesome to Use]]: Shower of Cure can become this, as well as level 4 magic attacks (you want to save your MP so you can keep attacking of course).
* [[Took a Level
* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]: After ''SFIII'', every last game in the series save for the [[Updated Rerelease]] of the original ''Shining Force'' has been an action-adventure RPG in the vein of the ''[[Seiken Densetsu]]'' games. Mostly critically panned, the games range from playably mediocre (''Neo'' and ''EXA'', the first ''Shining Soul'') to actually ''fun'' (''Shining Soul II'').
** Though technically, ''Shining Force I'' was an [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]], as the first game in the series was a dungeon crawling RPG called ''Shining In The Darkness''. This genre was revisited with ''Shining the Holy Ark''.
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** The Jewels of Light and Evil in SFII, though they have no effect on gameplay. The Shining Force swords in ''EXA'' also have a similar effect.
* [[You Dirty Rat]]: Slade the Rat is the cause of everything that goes wrong in SFII. Though it is mentioned that he was more of a Robin Hood-type [[Loveable Rogue]] who [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|simply had no idea what he was unleashing]] when he stole the jewels of Light and Evil. He does later join the Shining Force and redeem himself.
** Redeem himself? He becomes one of the best members of the force, barring [[The Hero|Bowie]] and [[Game Breaker|Peter]]. He's also the only member, when promoted, to be able to [[One Hit KO|slice things in two]] without damage rolls (except a boss) if he lands a critical. {{spoiler|Guess that's what [[Took a Level
* [[Your Mom]]: In ''Shining Wisdom'': "Your mama's so ugly she looks out the window and gets arrested for moonin'!"
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