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You can upgrade your attack power, your weapon power, your HP, your MP recovery, your potency with lightning magic, your effectiveness against golems, and so much more. There are tons of options at your disposal and getting everything maxed out will take many, many hours. Your two heroes can be customized and tuned as you see fit. Finally, you can use mythril that you find to customize Toma and Cyrille. I will talk more about these battles later. You can upgrade your fortress’s life, defense, the training dungeons, the cannon, the radar and the number of robots that you can deploy during Defensive Battles. You can also upgrade your Geo Fortress by using Core Metals that you find throughout the world. Your equipment can also get certain skills attached to them to increase their effectiveness. You can shop, upgrade your equipment, and talk to your comrades to see how they feel about the current situation. There are many things to do in your Geo Fortress. In this action RPG, you will be in areas where there are battles or you will be in your Geo Fortress. However, it can get too exciting during certain points. The game play in Shining Force EXA is also exciting. You will end up saving the world, but doing so was more exciting than it has been in previous RPGs. To sum up this section, the story was a breath of fresh air. This is not to say that they are there to take up space they just play a lesser role than Toma and Cyrille. Other people will join Toma and Cyrille, but they did not receive as much attention. Both of them develop well over the course of the game.
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However, near the middle of the game and up to the conclusion, they become excellent, worthy heroes. At the start of the game, neither of the two characters have any redeeming qualities. One of the greatest parts of the story was watching the dynamic between Toma and Cyrille develop. I was shocked at certain points in the story with some of the various twists it threw at me. For an action RPG, the story was surprisingly entertaining. Through the course of the game, you will learn more secrets about the holy sword and the world of EXA. After this, the game picks up in your base called the Geo Fortress. Obviously, he becomes the heritor to the sword and one of two main characters in the game the second being Cyrille. Your goal from the beginning of the game is clear find the holy sword.
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As their search continues, they are unaware that their actions would ultimately lead to a massive war. There is Gadfort the centaur knight, Maebelle the elfin archer, Cyrille the sorceress and Toma the refugee swordsman. Four of these people are following this trend and hunting for the legendary blade. Many people have become sick of war, and have gone on journeys to find a mighty sword called Shining Force that supposedly grants awesome powers to the wielder. The rivalry of two nations, the Noswald Empire and Fyrlandt, has increased dramatically over the years. Even though it is not an SRPG, EXA has plenty of charm of the Shining world and enough action to make your fingers bleed. But on the other hand, Sega managed to crank out a decent hack and slash by the name of Shining Force EXA. On the one hand, this is understandable because games like Shining Tears and Shining Soul lack the flavor of a true Shining game.
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The Shining series has been receiving a lot of flack ever since it went from the SRPG realm to the ARPG realm. I got back from an enjoyable night on the town, and spent the rest of the weekend convalescing via playing this. I remember spending nearly an entire weekend playing Shining Force EXA. Like other reviews of the time, it features “witty” taglines that separate each section. Author’s Note: This review was originally published on August 4th, 2008.