This new Shining title ”sums up the whole series” and should address fan curiosity. Sawada-san wants to reveal it before they go ”too far into the future.”
Tsuyoshi Sawada made the revelation while speaking with Famitsu magazine. ”It’s been ten years since the Shining series was re-invented,” he said, referring to 2002’s Shining Soul for GameBoy Advance from developer Grasshopper Manufacture.
”Currently, we’re preparing a title that sums up the whole series and should provide an answer to users’ curiosity. I can’t give details yet, but I’d like to reveal it before we go too far into the future.” Shining Force debuted on Mega Drive way back in 1992.
It’s got 28 titles in the series catalogue and the last was Shining Force EXA for PlayStation 2 in 2007. ”Shining is a long-running series, but development work largely stopped on it for a period of time,” noted Sawada-san.
”We redeveloped and resurrected the name as SEGA shifted from hardware to software, and the goal for the games I’ve worked on is to target a large swathe of the userbase and do something that hasn’t been done before with the series. That’s still the direction I take today.”
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