So Jamie and I have something in common. When we were kids, Shining Force 2 was our MAIN GAME. That's the game that got us both started. We would both rent it every weekend and try to get as far as we could (every weekend without fail my save would be deleted for whatever reason). It got to the point where I rented it so much that my parents just decided to buy it for me, and I still remember how excited I was when I got it. Jamicus told me he played it all the time with his dad and still does every once in a while. It's something we enjoy both because it is a good game and that it was our first.

If you don't know what Shining Force 2 is, it's strategy RPG for the Sega Genesis that featured tons of characters and exploration. I don't feel like typing up a whole lot about it but it was a super good game that had one of my favorite battle systems and some of the best character designs ever. I'll post a couple youtubes to give you an idea of what this game is.




So what Jamicus and I plan on doing is playing a game of Shining Force 2 together. He's going to start it, do the first battle, and then send it to me. I'll do a battle and send it back to him. This will go on until we beat it. Here's the catch though: we can't use the spell "Egress". Egress lets you escape from battle to try again, but you retain all of your stats and level ups after escaping. It's the best way to train your guys, which is why we're not going to use it. It's not cheap, you're supposed to use Egress, but we want this mutual playthrough to be challenging and we want to... TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL! When you die, you also get sent back to town, which is basically the equivalent of Egress, so if we die we're going to reload too.

We want to know if anyone wants to join us on this. Doing it together is probably going to be a lot of fun so we figured it would be even more fun if we get even more people involved. This isn't a real obligation or anything, if you sign up for this and decide you want to drop out later it's not a big deal and we're not going to hold you to anything. This is just something we're doing for fun.

So yeah, here's the current turn order.

1. Jamie
2. Chef
3. Boulvae
4. Dead Phoenix
5. Goat

Sign up pals.

dont sign me up! april fools. sign me up.

i think i have this on 360 from some sega collection a friend gave me. so i'm not playing with you but maybe i'll give it a try irl...

no, it's nothing like shining in the darkness!!!! but it's the sequel and has a bunch of the same characters.

is this like shining in the darkness?  that game was cool

it's nothing like that!!!!

No, we're just passing around a file. We're not going to use any save states because they make it really easy to be lame. Jamie's going to start it, he'll fight the first battle and then go back to town and save, send it to me, I'll fight the second battle and then save, send it to whoever is next, and so on. It's pretty simple.

Though I've never actually beat SF2(probably because i never used the egress spell) I'd love to get in on this, it counds pretty cool.

my word...


i'll do the first battle later today.

how could it be nothing like shining in the darkness?  i mean it's clearly the same type of game

uh, no it isnt

shining in the darkness was the 1st person dungeon crawler with a regular group-rpg style battle system

shining force 1/2/3/fx/xtreme/saturn edition are strategy rpg games, kind of like final fantasty tactics only not exactly.

same developers, same continuality, but not same genres or type of game

man this is such a cool idea. i love challenge games. it's a shame i never played these games so guess i can't participate.

What's the point of playing only half the game? Or less, if more than 2 people are part of this.

What's the point of playing only half the game? Or less, if more than 2 people are part of this.

whats the point of doing anything as a team? i dont need people

*flicks hair out of eyes*

If only you were doing the first Shining Force...

I remember sometimes when I turned on Shining Force II the intro witch would turn her face directly at me with this terrifying expression and say "YOUR SAVE FILE HAS BEEN DELETED" and the crisis music plays for a moment. It scared me alot.