"titles with various other directions" could mean (almost) anything with Shining nowadays lol. I honestly wonder if Shining Resonance's action-RPG style being a "traditional game" for the series is a notion that's supported domestically. Considering how disconnected the West has been from the series beyond the PS2 days and that they... kept inching towards pure action with every game since then I guess it makes sense. It would be neat if they tried a worldwide revival initiative, like with Valkyria Chronicles 4, of the original strategy style, but considering a lot of people have gripes with Tony Taka and that Camelot (which may not even be up to the task anymore) would likely play a big role in such an endeavor I doubt it's a reasonable expectation.
Man, I dream of a remake of Shining in the Darkness based on the original promo art
I dunno, I thought SitD and the old games in general hit the art style pretty well. Having revisited (and finally beat after all these years) SitD earlier this year I think the few characters in-game are still very charming and well composed visually, it's just that actual cutscenes, as good as they are, are very sparse. A remake would still be dope though; I'm not familiar with many modern dungeon crawlers in the style or even if it would sell well but there are a lot of robust improvements and additions to be had.
Why is thread so fucking negative? Not even 30 posts in, and everyone's bitching or already finalizing their opinions on the game. What happened to being naturally optimistic instead of redundantly cynical in gaming, jeez.
I myself, am curious to see how this shapes out. Don't know much about the Shining series but seeing footage of the Saturn games is really making me want to play through them someday. To the people saying "Camelot or bust", yeah it'd be neat if they could get them back, but Sega has other experienced teams like Atlus that could fill the void. I'm sure everyone felt down on a dev like Retro taking over Metroid back in the day but that turned out pretty well, so you never know.
That's the thing, Sega has shown no indication of wanting to move away from the current art style (quite the opposite) or the...gameplay roulette of the Taka titles that covers everything but the traditional strategy from the original titles that people are looking for. It's stranger still because they randomly dropped titles like Shining Road and Shining Force Feather which scratched that itch, but they insist on the Taka series being anything but that despite that line of games being closest to the original Camelot games in terms of having some unifying consistency (art style, connecting plots between games, etc). It's hard to blame people for being unenthusiastic about Shining news given its history, even if it can be frustrating to read all the time.
For what it's worth, I think it's really neat that a legit fighting game happened with the IP because of its desire to do anything but something resembling classic strategy, so that's something.
