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I remade my progress in about half the time! Must have gotten good at the game, little old me. To my dismay, the next time I opened my state-save, the in-game title screen showed I had no save data! It was all that fucking witch's fault! A few days later I begrudgingly renamed my character as Frein and started again. After that, I quit back to the launcher and state-saved the whole thing. After about 3 hours of on-and-off play across about a week I decided to save and quit to the in-game title. It features save states, though you can also save in-game. Unfortunately the Sega Master System & Genesis Classics launcher is really buggy. Even watching your party grow from battle to battle as more members join the team aids in painting an epic scale for the player to enjoy. There's a definitive context to the things that occur, and a clear sense of progression that aids the story. In Shining Force II, the story really ties in to the battles that occur, so you get a greater sense of fighting for a reason. But it wasn't really enough and I found myself getting bored despite the core mechanics of the game being really solid. In the sequel there's a greater sense of threat and sweeping global stakes to be gleaned from the morsels of dialogue that occur before battles begin that helped to engage my emotional connection to the game.

I played Advance Wars 1 for an even shorter period of time then moved on because there wasn't enough context to the battles I was having. To expand on the story-driven nature of this game, let me anecdotally mention that I played Advance Wars 2 for a while. I think there are a lot of components in this game that come together really well. I was playing on easy and I greatly enjoyed the difficulty curve as somebody who doesn't usually think so strategically. It's really weird, but it's also fascinating to look at in some pseudo-historical context. This great Wizard Sir Astral who serves as your teacher at the beginning of the game and has status among the Royals seems to have a pretty informal way of speaking even when addressing an entire army. Not only that but the characterization seems pretty inconsistent, too. It doesn't necessarily bring the game down because it's obviously a product of its time, but I did take note of it. But for all this trouble to make the game feel alive, the characters can be prone to talking in a very stilted way. You're constantly gaining party members in an organic way - perhaps the King will tell his second-in-command to follow the gang and he'll join the party - situations like that.

It's fine in something like A Link to the Past, but Shining Force II has a much more interconnected plot - which is something I really like about this game. You'll often walk up to an NPC and all they'll say is something like 'you can buy loaves of bread at the market.' This works in a lot of less story-driven games. In a lot of Japanese-to-English translated games, the characters speak in very black-and-white terms. Once I got past the intro sequence, the game continued to draw me into its World with the file select screen being a conversation with a witch! Shortly thereafter I began my quest.

Then hodgy100 kindly brought it to my attention that you can start the whole Sega emulator in basic mode which eradicated any sense of slowdown that I had been experiencing. That was cool but the game kept slowing down to a crawl and I felt instantly regretful of my purchase. Shining Force II starts with a neat cutscene of a mouse stealing some jewels out of a huge dungeon.

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So I clicked on the TV and gots to playing. Had I been teleported to another World? A kind of shitty World with just the bare minimum of stuff to give the impression that people live here? Wow! There was a Genesis on the floor in front of the TV! Wow, if I clicked it would I - no, that's game settings. I booted up the Sega Mega Drive & Genesis Classics Steam file and found myself in a strangely hodge-podge 3d household lounge environment. This game is also rated very highly but there was less of an air of devotion among the fan chatter online when I checked, which settled my senses. Phantasy Star IV had rave reviews, but I only felt ready for a casual gaming experience - it's like not wanting to waste your first time watching Citizen Kane with low concentration lest you miss out on some of the rich complexities that are so constituent of the films beauty.

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