This means that you can completely leave some characters behind that doesn’t suit your battle strategies and focus your training with a select few or rotate your roster to make sure you have an agile band of heroes to select from before each challenge. Your adventuring party can at most be twelve characters however, so those not in your party will kick back and relax at your headquarters. You’ll get to know them mainly from how they perform in battle and they will rise in levels and powers as you take them to battles and earn experience points with them. There are 33 playable characters all in all in the game – some of them optional and secret. The various characters that you can befriend and recruit to your band of adventurers include everything from archers, centaur knights, magicians, mechanical armored warriors, werewolves, and monks. Talking to people is something you are encouraged to do through the whole game, as that is the main way to collect clues and hear rumors about various events and secrets in the game like optional characters that can be recruited to your party.Īs you progress through the story things get a little more complicated as you will be managing a vast roster of characters, the inventory of each of your party members, their skills and magic abilities.

There isn’t really much you need to learn here to get going – you can talk to people in the village, buy and sell items at the shop, check your characters stats in the status screen and that’s about it. The game has no tedious tutorials and boring introduction sequences, and is intuitive enough to be manageable at the first go. It has shown though, that Max is a natural talent when it comes to sword fighting and when the rumors of war reaches his hometown he is sent by the king to investigate. His background is unknown because he was found unconscious and suffering from an amnesia a year before the game starts. The game is a strategic roleplaying game where you take control of a young boy called Max. Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon is a remake of the original Shining Force game released to the Sega Mega Drive back in 1992 and the Virtual Console in 2007.

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