Shining Force: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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).

* [[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''.

** 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.

* [[Your Mom]]: In ''Shining Wisdom'': "Your mama's so ugly she looks out the window and gets arrested for moonin'!"

 

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