A light in the darkness.
The Shining series may well be best known for its line of tactics RPGs, most notably the Shining Force sub-series, but the 35-year-old franchise actually started out as a first-person perspective dungeon crawler and went on to span many different sub-genres, making it one of the most diverse RPG series to dive into.
The series is also defined by two distinct eras. The first, running from 1991 to 1998, was under the watchful eye of the game’s creators, Shugo and Hiroyuki Takahashi, who cut their teeth on the early Dragon Quest games before setting up their own team within Sega under the name Sonic Software Planning before splintering off into the independent outfit Camelot Software Planning. This classic run of Shining games has a consistent quality and worldview running throughout – despite a few changes in genre – and is generally beloved by fans of the series.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
A light in the darkness.
The Shining series may well be best known for its line of tactics RPGs, most notably the Shining Force sub-series, but the 35-year-old franchise actually started out as a first-person perspective dungeon crawler and went on to span many different sub-genres, making it one of the most diverse RPG series to dive into.
The series is also defined by two distinct eras. The first, running from 1991 to 1998, was under the watchful eye of the game’s creators, Shugo and Hiroyuki Takahashi, who cut their teeth on the early Dragon Quest games before setting up their own team within Sega under the name Sonic Software Planning before splintering off into the independent outfit Camelot Software Planning. This classic run of Shining games has a consistent quality and worldview running throughout – despite a few changes in genre – and is generally beloved by fans of the series.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
