So, With the God of War Conquered I have moved on to Shining Tears. (I will do GoW on God Mode sometime)

The Reviews For Shining Tears have pretty much been bang on in the fact that if your not a Hardcore Shining Fan you probably won't enjoy Shining Tears and yes they are correct. You really need to enjoy Sega's Style of the series to get any satisfaction out of Shining Tears, and Luckily for me the Shining Series has been one of my Favourite sinse the first Shining Force.

The Storyline obviously you all know from reading the review (even just the first paragraph of most reviews) so Ill skip that part and just get into how I enjoy it. The game is pretty slow at the begining. It introduces you to all the characters in about a 3 hour period with a Linear set of battles to begin the game. It shows you the Ying and Yang factor of the Twin Dragon Rings. Personally I enjoy using the Good Characters as my Partner so the main character is an Evil Bastard with attitude.

It's sort of funny. I normally play the goody character in RPG's but I really feel like being Evil this time around for once. Maybe thats God of War talking but I really like it.

The combat although basic is enjoyable except I don't enjoy how the Enemies are places on the battle maps. It feels so early 90's with the placement of units are as well as AI. The game isn't very hard by any means, I have roughly 8 hours played and have had no problems. Infact its too easy.

The Reviews seem to complain that the Music is of Midi quality but I just don't hear that. It may repeat itself every 1-2 Minutes but it is NOT midi quality. it actually sounds pretty good and the songs fit the situations well in story events. I do honostly beleve Reviewers just hate the style of it and don't want to give it any praise. But everyone who enjoys this series already expected in the area of 50-65% in reviews becasue its meant for its fanbase and not the average gamer.

Overall so far. Its a decent Game. its not amazing by any regards infact its far from it. Saying it is would make one Bias which im not. I just enjoy the series style but the gameplay mechanics are flawed and outdated.

But, I love their storylines. :D