Lost RPG Franchises: Where Are They Now?

[StokedUp]

darkknightkryta said:

StokedUp said:
Shining Force 3 on the sega saturn was a brilliant RPG, i was gutted we never got the other 2 parts to the story.
I'd love to see a complete remake of those games because the battle effects on the magic spells were crazzee!!! imagine what they could make them look like with todays conso

I also agree with a comment further up about Star ocean 4 being a good game, I really enjoyed that RPG and all its characters! it was a good story and adventure to go through.

Was part 2 of Shining Force 3 japan only or never released?  (Stuff like that happens so I'm a bit curious).

yes there were 2 more parts to the story but they never made it out Japan but it was at the end of the Sega Saturns lifecycle so i think that was the reason. I really wanted to play them though. Part 2, rather than being a direct sequel it was played parallel with part 1 except you played as the other party of warriors which you kept running into in the first (i think you might have even had a battle with them) and then part 3 you play as a young warrior named Julian who joins your party halfway through the part 1 but then leaves when hes tossed over a bridge and believed to be dead but turns up in Part 2 (washed upon a shore) as a playable characyer again.