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Play as Yuma Ilvern and stop the Empire from exploiting the power of the ancient dragons, including the soul of the Shining Dragon within you. With the help of your friends, realize your destiny, save Astoria, and unleash the strength you’ve always had locked away.
Shining Resonance Refrain is a rpg, adventure and anime game
developed and published by SEGA.
Released on July 09th 2018 is available only on Windows
in 5 languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 1,283 reviews of which 898 were positive and 385 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.8 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 6.50€ on Instant Gaming.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Microsoft Windows 7 / 8 (8.1) / 10
- Processor: Intel Core i3 (2.9 GHz) or AMD equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Video card with 1 GB VRAM (Nvidia GeForce 460 or AMD Radeon 5670)
- DirectX: Version 11
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By no means a great game, but far from bad either. I really enjoyed my time with it. Plus the soundtrack is great.
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This game is apart of the reboot version of the Shining Force universe, now just called the "shining" series, which began with Shining Tears. Shining Force NEO is the equivalent to the first game, that one was developed by Neverland, best known for Rune Factory and all of the Lufia games outside of the GBA one, but also the Record of Lodoss War SRPG that was the only localized game from that franchise before Team Ladybug's recent metroidvania. The art designer for the reboot games after Shining Wind or so is Tomy Taka, best known for being one of the lead character designers of Azur Lane, a game responsible for an endless sea of H-Doujins with his character designs. The pre-reboot devs were Climax and Camelot, the former split into Matrix Software but also kept making entirely not notable games, Matrix made Alundra, Nostalgia (DS), FF4 DS and After Years, Avalon Code, Omega Labyrinth (most recent game is on Steam, very NSFW), some of the DQ Mystery Dungeon games, DQ5 PS2, etc. Camelot, ended up joining forces with Nintendo to make the Mario Sports games and also Golden Sun, and the Golden Sun games are spiritually VERY similar to the dungeon crawler pre-reboot games except as traditional RPGs. The pre-reboot games also bounced between genre and tone, from Shining In The Darkness, a CLASSIC dungeon crawler, to the three Shining Force games, to Shining The Holy Ark, to Shining Wisdom, and Landstalker which counts depending on who you ask. They're all good, but my favorite of the pre-reboot games is Shining The Holy Ark, which is not only genuinely original as a dungeon crawler for the time, but also has a completely nuts plot involving the protagonists being abducted by aliens and being instructed to fight devil aliens, no I am not joking, this happens during the intro sequence. What makes it unique is the fairy system, which is a strange precursor to Golden Sun's Djinn. It also has the prestiege-like promotion system derivative of Wizardry and Langrisser (which both did it before Fire Emblem). This game is made by the same team as the second and third of the PSP games, and it was actually a pretty big hit in Japan, it just came out 4 years later in North America. The first game was Shining Hearts, which wasn't available in North America, but the 2D fighting game spinoff by the same devs IS, it's called Blade Arcus from Shining, it's on Steam except there's an updated PS4/Switch version with the Resonance characters that isn't on Steam. That dev team also went on to make Blade Strangers, if anyone remembers that game as anything other than the cursed Nicalis fighting game. The second and third also weren't available in North America, Shining Blade and Shining Ark, the latter of which has nothing to do with the pre-reboot Shining The Holy Ark. But they were both made by Media.Vision, a company mostly known as a subcontractor for Sony Japan who made the ENTIRE Wild ARMs series, yes, every single game. Also Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth, Valkyria Chronicles 3, 4, and Revolution, as well as the upcoming The Hundred Line game, and the Chaos Rings games, and the DS Wizard of Oz RPG who's unique character designs make the rounds every now and then. Also Summon Night 6, a game I badly want on PC but likely never will be on PC for reasons. So, enough history, how is, THIS GAME, specifically. It plays very similarly to a late PS3 early PS4 Tales Of game, but fully third person. Which makes sense considering this was originally a VERY late PS3 release in 2014. Combat is fast and satisfying, and while the translation isn't the BEST, it gets the job done. The character designs are stellar, and I get Tomy Taka's fanatical fanbase a little more now. This game had a comical amount of DLC on PS3, but it's all free with the remaster, which is what the "Refrain" version of the game is. The music is also pretty good, it's made by Elements Garden who are actually a pretty well known production group. You may have heard their name before because they're a large collective. There's honestly not much to say about the game itself other than that it's REALLY good if you like Tales Of style RPGs, and it would've easily competed with Tales of Zestiria had it not been localized late. I wouldn't say it's the BEST game similar to Tales Of, that pretty blatantly goes to the Star Ocean games, which are funnily enough made by Tri-Ace, who splintered from Namco after making Tales of Phantasia (also, one of Tri-Aces' offspring made Eternal Sonata), and then a different team made Destiny/Eternia/Symphonia/Zestiria/Berseria/Arise/Abyss and so on. I know, all that history just to say it plays like a Tales Of game. Kinda anti-climactic, but I really don't know what else to say other than that it is really good. I love how the protagonist has a Yugi/Yami Yugi dynamic with the Shining Dragon, and the supporting characters are all charming, and this game has a heavy focus on social link adjacent excursions. Each character, similar to in a Tales or Star Ocean game, actually plays pretty differently from each other, so it's worth switching leader characters. I haven't finished it, but my backlog is eternal and neverending, but I loved what I played and keep wanting to come back, even if I end up just playing another Roguelite.
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7/10 Good brainless RPG, specially if you get it on sale with some/all the DLC. Pros: Enjoyable, near mindless if you set your characters up even remotely well Story doesn't pull you into hour+ long cutscenes or text Decent character customization, though a bit uninforming on details of what certain things do/affect Cons: Maybe too easy for trash mobs and some bosses Some boss fights are pretty hard unless you do repeat dragon forms (limited strategy to beat them) And you can't change your lineup before the fight, only after you lose to it, so I often get put into a cutscene that leads to a boss fight with 2-3 of my 4 lineup being characters I was leveling and not good for a boss fight Odd maximum item counts for different items some only allowed 9, some 19, some 99 If you are looking for a Jrpg you can sit down for just 30 minutes or 3-4 hours and just do battles or the next part of the story then Shining Resonance may be for you.
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Produced by the same studio that gave us the Wild ARMs franchise, this JRPG may not be revolutionary, but it is still fun, light-hearted and has a great battle system. The OST is well done and (perhaps aside from the protagonist), the cast is well-written, engaging and interesting enough.
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this game should have an option to convert Original mode save file to Refrain mode! to someone who haven't started the game and happen to be reading, I'd recommend you to start the game in Refrain mode I finished the game in Original mode with some ending, but later learned that DLC characters can be only played in Refrain mode, and I have to start over again with almost no difference in story and gameplay beside 2 playable characters added. and I'm tired of grinding so I quitted before finished Refrain mode game story wise, it was nice but a lot of cliche as we know this game was quite old. also only if you like a bunch of dialogues. gameplay wise, battles are not very bad if not it needs a lot of repetitive battles for grinding and farming
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Shining Resonance Refrain is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.
Shining Resonance Refrain is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.
Shining Resonance Refrain received 898 positive votes out of a total of 1,283 achieving a rating of 6.77.
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Shining Resonance Refrain was developed and published by SEGA.
Shining Resonance Refrain is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Shining Resonance Refrain is not playable on MacOS.
Shining Resonance Refrain is not playable on Linux.
Shining Resonance Refrain is a single-player game.
Shining Resonance Refrain does not currently offer any DLC.
Shining Resonance Refrain does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
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Online players
4
Developer
SEGA
Publisher
SEGA
Release
09 Jul 2018
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