: Super Sonic :
10-12-2004, 08:21 PM
بالفعل العنو هذا وقد تم تغيير الاسم من Shining Force الى Shining Force Neo
واعلنو ايضا كونها اكشن ار بي جي ! وقد خرجو عن نظام الاجزاء السابقة
لمزيد من التفاصيل اقرأ المقال التالي :
Following the Tokyo Game Show trailer, Sega went quiet on the PlayStation 2 entry in the Shining Force series. That all changed today, with the game getting a huge blowout on the page's of Japan's popular Famitsu game magazine.
First off, there have been a few major changes to the game. Previously referred to as just New Shining Force, the game has received a final name of Shining Force Neo. Oh, and it's also no longer a turn-based simulation game. Shining Force Neo is an action RPG!
Wha... wha... wha... what?
You read that right! We'd all assumed that Shining Force would be... well, Shining Force, but that's not exactly the case. In Shining Force Neo, you form a party of up to three, choosing from a number of ally characters, and head out to battle against enemies. We're not sure just yet if you'll have direct control over your characters as in a full action game, but the strategy battles of old are definitely not in this game.
As producer Youichi Shimosato (previous work as director on Shining Force III) explains to the magazine, the game was originally meant to be a simulation RPG like the classic Shining Force games. The team felt that it wasn't enough to simply take the original gameplay systems from the old titles and make the jump to 3D visuals. They at first considered adding realtime simulation elements to the game, but determined that this wouldn't work too well for the home market. One thing lead to another, and Shining Force Neo became an action RPG.
Sega has a few twists planned on the action side of things for Shining Force. You can equip Max, the main character, with four types of weapons: single handed blade (knight), dual handed blade (warrior), bow and arrow (archer) and staff (sorcerer). Depending on which weapon Max has equipped, your role in battle will change. An archer is, for example strong when fighting from afar, with a warrior using his large two-handed blade to take out multiple enemies at once. Knight form adds defense thanks to the equipping of a shield in one hand, while a sorcerer has different magic depending on the type of staff that he has equipped.
Max is equipped with a "Force Frame," which attaches to a weapon to give it added abilities. You set the Force Frame to have certain powers by equipping it with "Force Art" symbols. These Force Arts can be powered up by collecting Force Energy from defeated enemies and distributing it between arts. The game also has standard experience and level-up systems for your characters.
The flow of the game suggests that gameplay will be centered squarely on battle. While in town, you can obtain and strengthen weapons. Your characters stay in a base, which is where you edit your party of three before heading out to a field for battle. Clearing a battle field involves defeating all enemies, then destroying a Monster Gate, from which the enemies emerge. The fields seem to have random elements to them; one of the dungeons is listed in Famitsu as being randomly generated.
Even with the action elements, there's definitely some Force to this game (aside from the use of "Force" for frames, arts and energy). Event scenes look like they'll be in abundance, with Sega having hired a talented voice acting staff for all roles. The game's character designs and scenario are all being handled by veteran staff, so maybe we can expect some Shining signs in these areas.
We'll have to see Shining Force Neo for ourselves to determine if the Force should or should not be there. The Japanese version is set for 3/24/2005, so we should be able to get our hands on it early next year.
-- Anoop Gantayat
واعلنو ايضا كونها اكشن ار بي جي ! وقد خرجو عن نظام الاجزاء السابقة
لمزيد من التفاصيل اقرأ المقال التالي :
Following the Tokyo Game Show trailer, Sega went quiet on the PlayStation 2 entry in the Shining Force series. That all changed today, with the game getting a huge blowout on the page's of Japan's popular Famitsu game magazine.
First off, there have been a few major changes to the game. Previously referred to as just New Shining Force, the game has received a final name of Shining Force Neo. Oh, and it's also no longer a turn-based simulation game. Shining Force Neo is an action RPG!
Wha... wha... wha... what?
You read that right! We'd all assumed that Shining Force would be... well, Shining Force, but that's not exactly the case. In Shining Force Neo, you form a party of up to three, choosing from a number of ally characters, and head out to battle against enemies. We're not sure just yet if you'll have direct control over your characters as in a full action game, but the strategy battles of old are definitely not in this game.
As producer Youichi Shimosato (previous work as director on Shining Force III) explains to the magazine, the game was originally meant to be a simulation RPG like the classic Shining Force games. The team felt that it wasn't enough to simply take the original gameplay systems from the old titles and make the jump to 3D visuals. They at first considered adding realtime simulation elements to the game, but determined that this wouldn't work too well for the home market. One thing lead to another, and Shining Force Neo became an action RPG.
Sega has a few twists planned on the action side of things for Shining Force. You can equip Max, the main character, with four types of weapons: single handed blade (knight), dual handed blade (warrior), bow and arrow (archer) and staff (sorcerer). Depending on which weapon Max has equipped, your role in battle will change. An archer is, for example strong when fighting from afar, with a warrior using his large two-handed blade to take out multiple enemies at once. Knight form adds defense thanks to the equipping of a shield in one hand, while a sorcerer has different magic depending on the type of staff that he has equipped.
Max is equipped with a "Force Frame," which attaches to a weapon to give it added abilities. You set the Force Frame to have certain powers by equipping it with "Force Art" symbols. These Force Arts can be powered up by collecting Force Energy from defeated enemies and distributing it between arts. The game also has standard experience and level-up systems for your characters.
The flow of the game suggests that gameplay will be centered squarely on battle. While in town, you can obtain and strengthen weapons. Your characters stay in a base, which is where you edit your party of three before heading out to a field for battle. Clearing a battle field involves defeating all enemies, then destroying a Monster Gate, from which the enemies emerge. The fields seem to have random elements to them; one of the dungeons is listed in Famitsu as being randomly generated.
Even with the action elements, there's definitely some Force to this game (aside from the use of "Force" for frames, arts and energy). Event scenes look like they'll be in abundance, with Sega having hired a talented voice acting staff for all roles. The game's character designs and scenario are all being handled by veteran staff, so maybe we can expect some Shining signs in these areas.
We'll have to see Shining Force Neo for ourselves to determine if the Force should or should not be there. The Japanese version is set for 3/24/2005, so we should be able to get our hands on it early next year.
-- Anoop Gantayat