![]() Is Shining Force III Worthy of a Play in 2022? Like other titles from the Saturn era and beyond, Sega has refused to remaster or release Shining Force III within a collection or as a standalone title. Shining Force III is the last remnant of Sega’s ill-fated decision making process with the Saturn and its ‘ditch the console and its fan base’ and move to the Dreamcast philosophy that has left us with few, but precious copies of other late generation Saturn titles like Panzer Dragoon Saga. As with all Saturn games, if you buy a used copy you will want to play it, and a working Sega Saturn console could also prove tricky and pricey to find. Honestly, I am not surprised at the price tag, but am shocked that a sealed copy of the American version remains available for purchase this late after 1998. Now, true collectors might be better off on Ebay,where a new factory sealed copy of the game is available for a whopping $6000 (true kidney money). The game can cost you on Amazon up to $1000 when it is all said and done. It is a hard to find the classic in good used condition, meaning with case and manual. However, 25 years later (2022), these numbers would place Shining Force III within a special tier of extremely hard to find games. That would still put the number of SFIII copies sold at the 2000-unit range which was anemically low for 1998. It could be that Sega managed to move twice the number of copies that it did on the UK in the US. ![]() The Saturn sold an estimated 1 million consoles in Europe and 1.8 million units in North America. United States numbers remain elusive, but we can conjure some un-scientific guess work here. With an average score of 86% on GameRankings, Shining Force III wasn’t one of the absolute best games of a historically loaded 1998 year in gaming.Ī deeper search on Google would yield the same Japanese results with a rumored 500-1000 copies sold on the UK. The game consisted of three scenarios, but only one of these episodes was released within North America in 1998. Shining Force III is the series sole (numbered) entry on the Sega Saturn. Shining Force consistently ranks amongst the best games of all time within Sega Genesis/Megadrive titles. These games never sold well overseas, but were extremely popular with reviewers of the times. The Shining Force games are tough, turn-based strategy games designed for JRPG fans. Most will remember Shining Force from its Genesis days, or rather recently from its recent “Sega Collection” appearances. Today’s game that could potentially cost you “kidney worthy” money is none other than Shining Force III. ![]() Here is the Electronic Gaming Monthly’s four editor review of the game from its September 1998 issue. The best way to rate a retro game is by examining reviews from its release window. The system remains an alluring proposition to this day. Sega’s machine is a hard-to-find console with even harder to find JRPGs that did well within the critical world. ![]() Furthermore, this person lost the console two decades ago.Īs a JRPG fan, it was painful that the Sega Saturn was also the home to a few classics that I never had the opportunity to play. The reason? I didn’t own one, and I only know a single person who did. The Sega Saturn is, at least to me, the most legendary of the 32/64-bit era machines. ![]()
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