When did Shining Soul come out?

Shining Soul was released on 28 March 2002 for Wii U and Game Boy Advance.

Shining Soul (2002) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Shining Soul

Enter a world of magic and mystery, where your closest allies may sometimes turn out to be your worst enemies. Shining Soul puts you in the middle of a desperate struggle between the Dark Dragon and a group of…

40 28 March 2002

What Shining Soul is

Shining Soul is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and released in 2002. It was published by Atlus. It is available on Wii U and Game Boy Advance.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Enter a world of magic and mystery, where your closest allies may sometimes turn out to be your worst enemies. Shining Soul puts you in the middle of a desperate struggle between the Dark Dragon and a group of warriors known as the Shining Fleet. In the final stage of the war, you can play one of four character classes: fighter, wizard, archer, or dragonute. Customize your character's color schemes, weapons, and armor, and then explore the world of Shining Soul either alone or with three of your friends.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Shining series

Shining Soul is the second of 12 entries we hold in the Shining series. It arrived 9 years after Shining Force Gaiden: Ensei - Jashin no Kuni he. The next entry was Shining Soul II in 2003. Its critic score of 40 is 21 points below the series average of 61. The highest-rated entry is Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon at 87.

See all 12 Shining games in release order →

How it was received

Shining Soul holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 28 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Shining Soul launched on 28 March 2002, within three weeks of Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast and Heroes of Might and Magic IV. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast, Heroes of Might and Magic IV.

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