Too many characters with too little story relevance. They’re so bad that Sega uses them for character introductions and tutorials so you can learn while you wait.Ĥ. Atrocious loading times, upwards of 10 seconds at a time. Was it really necessary to bring back characters from Shining Hearts just to kill them off? Is there really no way Sega could have predicted how this would make me feel? Do they really hate me that much?ģ. If Shining Blade had had any of that, any at all, I’d be writing a different sort of review right now.Ģ. Not if you have good characterization, interesting gameplay, well-written dialogue, memorable events and all the other elements needed to make a great game. But all that shouldn’t necessarily make it bad. The story is a Category 5 cliche tornado. Shining Blade is just plain boring from beginning to end. So many problems I don’t even know where to startġ. On the other side of the equation, we have…
There, I’ve racked my brain enough for compliments. 28 hours and 39 minutes to get Elmina’s ending, and this is after I wasted all that time on sidequests. The enemies die so fast you’ll wonder if they committed hara-kiri when they saw you coming.ĥ.
It’s just too bad you don’t have anyone to use all your battle-fu on. You can strengthen your weapons with enemy drops, strengthen your skills with Soul Points, perform dual attacks with nearby party members, destroy boss parts to expose weak points, buff your party by eating bread, buff your party by singing songs, etc etc. Do the same for your other party members until you run out of moves then let the enemy do its worst. Duck and weave your way to the enemy, choose an attack, execute it, end your turn. I hear it’s straight up copied from Valkyria Chronicles but copying good ideas is not a bad thing. Wait, I’m supposed to be talking about the good parts.Ĥ. Each chapter drags out characters from older games like Shining Wind and Shining Tears and Shining. Except Shining Hearts fans, who will just be depressed. Nostalgia factor for fans of the older games. His men are covered from top to toe while his women wear negligee in snowstorms because that’s what his audience demands.ģ. A little heavy on the heaving bosoms and breast implants, but apparently this is Tony Taka’s entire raison d’être. It should be “great” given all the famous VAs they used but first, I’ve heard better performances from them and second, it doesn’t matter how nice your voice is if you’ve got nothing worthy to say.Ģ. I played for almost 30 hours and I finished it so there must be some in there. In the interest of fairness, here comes the obligatory “good parts” section. It just needs to be fun, and Shining Blade doesn’t even clear that low, low hurdle. Now certainly a game doesn’t need “substance” to be good. I can’t remember the last time I played a game so bright and polished on the outside and so dry and devoid of substance on the inside. Sol Trigger made me rage and The Last Story had a really weak story (moar liek “The Last Story Left After All The Good Ones Had Been Taken” amirite?), but both games at least had good gameplay going for them.
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