Hi everyone,

The UK games magazine, GAMES tm have done a retro feature in this month's issue on pages 156 & 157. It's issue 61 and has a picture of master chief on the front with a big Halo 3 feature.

It's also got a review of Shining Force on the Wii VC as well.

It's not a bad feature, but as always with magazines these day it's not a perfect feature and includes some mistakes and errors.

I would post a scan of the feature but I don't have access to a scanner, I would go into greater detail about the feature but I'm at work now. Any way it's nice to see a SF3 feature and if you fancy a read you know what magazine to buy.

Just a quick point, but the new issue of games has only just come out, so some shops are still selling the old issue, which is issue.

The annoying thing about issue 61, is that the issue has a halo 3 wraper around it that is stuck to a couple of pages, so if you don't remove it and the glue that's stuck to it carefully it will rip the issue.

This post has been edited by S3M on Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:53 am

Certainly kicks the arses of many SHF3 reviews I've seen over the years.

Good find, S3M... have to keep an eye open for that if it's still on sale anywhere locally.

QUOTE (verydopey @ Sat Sep 08, 2007 8:54 pm)

oh dear... "synbios, who must search for and recover his abducted king" oh dear...

Yeah Swalchy pointed that out to me in a PM and I noticed it the first time I read the feature. Also the parts, about the Republic & Destionia aren't greatly written, it fails to really explain the social story.

Also there is no mention to the English script change to the ending, as we all know the cliffhanger was covered up in the UK version. The writer seems to suggest it wasn't changed.

Overall I find the piece to be very child like in the way it's written. While I understand it's trying to introduce people to the title who have never played it before it. There's some hot air in the feature which could have been taken out and other parts could have been written to explain the story better. Also the lack of any mention to Shining the Holy Ark suggests the writer doesn't fully understand the series. Maybe it's just personal opinion but I would have certainly have worded a few bit differently if I have written a feature on Shining Force III.

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Good find, S3M... have to keep an eye open for that if it's still on sale anywhere locally.

Cheer Cull, but I knew there was something coming up in this month's issue of games when the guy who edits the retro section posted on their forum.

He also did this feature at NTSC, which is also where I can be found these days in the retro forum. As I don't post that much here at SFC these days.
http://www.ntsc-uk.com/feature.php?feature...a=RShiningForce

Also a big Shining Series feature is coming to retro gamer magazine at some point in the near future. I'll let you know when it does.

And has anyone posted a link to this on Jumesyn? Or maybe I should just sign up to Jumesyn.

This post has been edited by S3M on Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:11 am

How awesome is it that SFC is linked under the bottom picture?

'For full game transcriptions head to shiningforcecentral.com.'

I enjoy GAMES magazine alot, doesn't take itself to seriously like EDGE. The piece was quite good if alittle inaccurate. Nice to see a magazine that doesn't think RPG's begin & end with Final Fantasy. They seem fairly pro-SEGA as well, with quite afew articles on the Sega Ages 2500 games. Wonder if they'll ever revamp Shining games like they have with the Phantasy Star games?

I like the analysis of the author about the towns' sections and what you learn by talking to the people. I wonder if he's right though, when he says that those themes (war, technology revolution...) don't tend to appear in console games.

What do you think about it? As far as I remember, I enjoyed the conversations in Phatasy Star IV for instance (want to play that game again...!)

But pointing that out, the author made me realize it's one of the things I really like in the serie. And it makes me think I've got to kill Kane of Runefaust very soon

Psh, you treat sega like it is human, companies are machines with one thing in mind, $$$

If it costs too much to patch things up with camelot so that they can profit off it, it will never happen

Yes, Sega Saturn Magazine totally ruled. I was lucky enough to be given six copies by my friendly games dealer Stumpy. Well, not local, he was actually in (somewhere I can't remember) and later I got a box of like thirty from a car boot sale and they've been read so much they are all dog-eared and some have the covers torn off. And yes, Rich was the best writer. He was super-intelligent and hot to boot. Well, not hot... nevermind. Please note I am a guy so I can't really say these kinds of things.

QUOTE (Ashley @ Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:46 am)

I said I'd let you know, so here goes. Issue 58 of Retro Gamer is on sale this Thursday and features an 8-page history of the Shining series. Here's what you need to look for: I look forward to hearing how many mistakes I've made.

I'll be the first one in the slapping quene if there is any.

I saw the issue mentioned on NTSC-UK so guess, I'll be in WHSmith tomorrow.

Out of interest Ash, how much beer or games would we need to bribe Daren with to get a Shining series front cover.