Away Game Special: Shining from the Future

I thought the intro to Golden Sun Dark Dawn was long, but clearly I'd forgotten about the intros for the Shining Force games. What's worse though, unless the wiimote just doesn't have the button for it, the Shining Force intros can't be skipped and happen before you're even given the option to start the game.

Over long prologue-type cut-scenes aside, there's more freedom than I remember in those games. It's strange how they're like a mash-up between a standard turn-based strategy game and something along the lines of Ultima.

The Shining Force games' combat can still be balls-to-the-wall difficult though. even with all the time in the world to sit and strategize, battles still need to be figured through and worked out painstakingly - at least at the game's beginning, when you haven't had time to grind or properly equip people.

All the same, once these games are reached on my Games List, they're sure to lead to a lot of excellent hours of gaming.