Shining Force: Neo

Shining Force Neo: The first real-time action Shining Force game I played. It was released for the PS2. The story is a loose adapted version of Shining Force 1. Here is a synopsis from Wikipedia:

Thirteen years before the game begins, the world was locked in a war against the Clan of the Moon. Foul monsters known as "Legions" were unleashed by the Clan against their enemies in their bid for domination. However, powerful heroes called Forces soon rose up to lead the charge against them. Aided by Force Frames, ordinary warriors became gifted with a variety of powerful advantages that made them more than what they would have been otherwise. With this, the war against the Clan of the Moon began to turn. The Clan's Dark Castle and the Legions were banished in the end. Victory was achieved, but only at a great cost. Several nations were utterly destroyed and most of the Forces that participated in the final battle had perished.

When the story starts, a young warrior named Max has nearly completed the training that will make him a Force. Journeying home, he hopes to achieve his dream, not realizing that it is only the beginning of an adventure that will take him and his friends across the world to stop the return of evil.

While you can find many companions to accompany you like Shining Force 1 and 2, the amount you can find is less due to the fact that you can only have 2 other companions with you (like Shining in the Darkness).

The only way I knew this game was released was one day I was working at Hastings and I got really bored. I decided on a whim to look up Shining Force in the database to see if there were any other games. To my pleasure and astonishment, I discovered that they released Neo and the re-release of Shining Force for the Game Boy Advance. As you can imagine, I ordered them immediately and bought them with haste. I definitely liked the change up of the combat style and the graphic changes, but it was not quite as endearing to me as the first Shining Force.