#shining soul

[wario-land]

Game Boy Advance's All Stars in...

SUPER SMASH BROS. ADVANCE

A concept idea made by me, because i love GBA and it's various games

[redinkquill]

Can you identify the colors I shine?

Can you see which are mine?

I know not the colors

That shine from my soul

Can you tell me what they are

And help make me whole?

[gamerzylo]

[nakamorijuan]

清水咲斗子 - SHINING SOUL Satoko Shimizu - SHINING SOUL Tenku Senki SHURATO - 1st Opening Theme

[artsy-foxo]

[Fan Art] Prim the Kyantol Priestess!

Short Stack Priestess! Say hi to Prim! I've always wanted to draw her design when I saw her in Shining Soul 2 back in the day, and finally decided to take a crack at it . If you like this, please check out and follow my socials here! Inkblot Gallery Twitter (SFW) Patreon Commission Status/Prices Autumn Hills (Webcomic)

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[claire-starsword]

Shining Force Translations/Loreposting masterpost

About time I tried to organize all the rambling i do here.

Update: also organizing things even better on a website on Neocities, it’s still a work in progress but I hope to one day just replace this entire mess of links with it.

For now though, the mess of links below is the best we’ve got.

Shining Force:

partial translation of character bios from the Shining Force Encyclopedia (original scans here)

translations of the Shining Force Kouryaku no Tebiki Book (original scans here), starting from the character bios, then getting to Max’s diary, the epilogue interview with Nova, and the Country Guide.

translations of the Shining Force World Book  (original scans here)

partial translations of the Shining Force Data Collection from Beep Megadrive magazine

Write up on the japanese pre release coverage of the game, including plenty of changed/removed content

Write up on unused content in the game seen through a ROM editor.

Some further investigation on unused content visible with walk through wall cheats: Khris’ scandalous secret line, unused NPCs in Alterone, and weirdness in chapter 7 and the debug mode (note: i have since then sadly confirmed that lines related to the unused event in Metapha are sadly removed in the JP version as well).

The unused content info is also summarized on TCRF as well.

that one post where i ramble a lot about the ending, including the japanese/english differences

All HQ quotes in the japanese and english versions

All special quotes from the ship HQ of Chapter 5, japanese and english versions

Bloodline of the Sacred Dragons novel translation [ongoing]

Shining Force CD/Gaiden 1 & 2:

Discussion and retranslation of the initial characters’ introduction scene

Sadposting about Hindel plus a small correction to the localization

tfw you don’t have money for treatment in Book 3

Hanzou’s bio from the Guide Book

Natasha is Nick’s cousin according to the SFCD manual

Origin of Apis’ name

Final Conflict:

Translation of all HQ quotes. From what I’ve seen these were mistranslated in the fan translation patch.

Sprite rips and comparisons between the original graphics and the sprites from Shining Force Chronicles 3, the lost mobile version of the game.

Darksol concept art

A few scenes from the start

Me crying about the ending

Unused spell indexes

The Natadecoco/Yogurt lore...

Not mine but worth linking here: the only footage of Shining Force Chronicles 3 I’ve ever found.

Shining Force 2:

All HQ quotes in the japanese and english versions, plus some related stuff from a guide book

Translation of the encyclopedia. You gotta put up with some rambling at the start because i didn’t put that in a different tag my bad.

Manual translations (The prologue and character bios). Also includes a retranslation of the lore dump of Tristan and discussion of the names changed by localization.

Write up of the japanese pre release coverage of the game, including plenty of early build screenshots. The post is currently broken and cannot be edited, but unlike what it says I won’t be making a second part, there are only a few screenshots missing and I’ll put them on TCRF later and link it here.

Bloodline of the Sacred Dragons novel translation [ongoing] (listed it twice in the post since it takes place between SF1 and SF2 with plenty of characters and elements from both)

Sadposting about Hawel

Observation about the Granseal escape sequence that haunts me

Ramblings and love for Zynk

Oddeye’s concept art/beta design

My gameplay of the japanese version. I didn’t make an specific tag for it so you gotta scroll past a few english posts first, my bad. Also I stopped the playthrough at Red Baron. Overall take translations in this one with a grain of salt because it’s messy and old.

Japanese and english versions of the conflict with Oddeye

Me trying and failing to understand the lore dump at Hassan

Fairly important cut line from Zynk

Shining Force GBA:

The english version’s odd obsession with giving relatives to people

HQ dialogue

English Nova forgets Anri exists

Shining Wisdom:

Guide Book translations

Interview snippet from before the game’s launch that says Final Conflict characters were meant to have a cameo appearance there

Shining in the Darkness:

JP manual and intro translation, plus a mention of Dark Dragon in a magazine

Shining Soul 2

Translation of the prologue and bios of the playable characters from the guide book and official website

Translation of bios of the town NPCs

Translation of bios of the boss characters

Masterpost about the lost mobile games

The general tag for discussing localization stuff

My playthroughs. Note that back at some of those playthroughs I hadn’t yet dived into guides and lore and stuff so they might have mistakes and stuff, I’m not linking them as a source of info, just as a source of fun:

Shining Force

Shining Force CD

Final Conflict

Shining Force 2

Shining Force GBA

Shining Soul

Shining Soul 2, mostly with a Slade sprite hack

Shining Wisdom

Landstalker

[doamarierose-honoka]

Yoshitaka Tamaki, the artist and character designer behind Shining in the Darkness, Shining Force, Landstalker and many other classic titles, passed away earlier this year, it has been revealed.

Tamaki passed away on July 13th following a battle with lung cancer. He was just 55 years old. A private service was held in his memory today.

Having initially worked as a freelance artist for Enix, Tamaki would join Hiroyuki Takahashi at the newly-formed Climax Entertainment to create Shining in the Darkness on the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive. While he is most famous for the art and character designs he produced, Tamaki would also contribute to story and scenario writing on several titles he worked on.

As well as working on the Shining series and the seminal action adventure Landstalker, Tamaki would also work on FEDA: The Emblem of Justice (Super Famicom), Lady Stalker (Super Famicom), FEDA Remake!: The Emblem of Justice (Saturn), Alundra (Playstation), Time Stalkers (Dreamcast), Shining Soul (GBA), Shining Soul II (GBA) and Shining Force Neo (PS2). He is also credited on Shining Force: Resurrection Of The Dark Dragon, a GBA remake of the original game.

Back in 2018, fellow Climax / Camelot Software Planning artist Hiroshi Kajiyama, who also worked on the Shining series, passed away.

[jet-grind]

[astikparanoid]

I love him

[femboyyuri]

i knew about the existence of the shining soul games but i never actually really paid attention to them

turns out they were both directed by akira ueda (the contact guy) and it shows , with how relatively low stakes and chill the games are

the 2nd game features some INCREDIBLY masafumi takada music, it sounds just like something you’d hear in the silver case

[kurhl]

A equipe toda unida para enfrentar o monstro de Shining Soul.

[alemonro]

[gamerzylo]

[lilybug-02]

Final Blow.

Bug Fact: The New Zealand Glowworm is a species of fungus gnat endemic to New Zealand's cave systems. The larval stage produces a blue-green bioluminescence.

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Masterpost

Some pictures of this amazingly unique creature and it's habitat.

[artsy-foxo]

Zachs once again going to the weapon shop, despite the fact that he doesn't really use weapons.

I wonder if the shop owner has noticed yet…💙⚔️

[claire-starsword]

why make it only a SFC3/Final Conflict comparison when i can instead dump every possible style of Adam on you all. Appreciate Him. I do love the SFC3 shading and bulk the most though. Being yellow in the og was likely due to palette limitation but it looks great.

I also had no clue there was promoted art of several SF1 characters so this was a good post to make anyway, shame i can’t find the whole book

Source for the sprites: SF1  SFRoDD  SFC3 as usual, Final Conflict and Shining Soul i ripped myself, because of course i requested spriters resource to open a shining soul section just to put adam in it. Of course i’d do that.