20 Megadrive Games You Must Play Before You Die

3. Shining Force

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCNDx3X4MuQ

Developer - Camelot
Genre - Tactical-RPG
Release Date - 1993
Current Price (Approx) - £60-75

Another Japanese RPG and another crazy price tag to go along with it. In this case it is entirely warranted too, as the first Shining Force is an absolute classic of the Tactical-RPG genre and is a game that any fan of the genre simply has to have in their collection.

Featuring an epic storyline and a familiar - though superbly executed - battle system, Shining Force didn't really set out to reinvent the wheel in the genre. Instead, it aimed to take everything that makes Tactical-RPGs great and combined them into a perfect package.

An equally brilliant - and expensive - sequel would follow before the series moved over to the Saturn, where it is even rarer. Whether you get an original copy of pick it up on the Virtual Console, it is a game that simply has to be experienced.

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