Shining Soul for Game Boy Advance

Pros: Multiplayer, quick item/weapon toggling, "quest for more stuff".

Cons: Repetitive gameplay, poor AI, simple backgrounds, forgettable music.

The Bottom Line: The hack and slash got tiresome, but the "quest for more useless stuff" kept me going and got me through the monotonous gameplay, if only for a short while.

Review: Long ago, I, with many other gamers, saw this game in its Japanese form and damned the gaming gods for forsaking us-a domestic release was not in the foreseeable future. An even longer while ago, we were already blessed with an amazing series, only know ...

Pros: Multiplayer is apparently fun.

Cons: Whoa, Nelly...read the review.

The Bottom Line: Skip this one.

Review: Some of my fondest Sega memories involve the Shining series of games, particularly Shining Force. The original Shining Force has the distinction of being the very first strategy RPG I’d ever played—and the one that got me hooked on the subgenre. Over the ...