Shining Force (Sega) Chapter 2 Battle 1 Part 2

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Published on December 30, 2009 3:42:19 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1DOaf3M2yo

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Shining Force (1992)

Duration: 9:35

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Difficulty: 7.5/10
Winning Conditions: Kill everything or enter Manarina with Max.

Strategies: This outdoor battle can really be a doozey towards the end. Luckily the beginning is extremely easy and just consists of bats and dwarves guarding a bridge. Take 'em out, but be careful to not be put to sleep by the agile bats. Move up through the desert (which is excruciatingly slow) and take out the Snipers. As you approach Manarina, you'll have 4 Zombies and 3 mages to deal with. Zombies are extremely strong with high defence and the ability to poison. I'm sure you're already sick of Dark Mages.

Anyways, use a couple Blaze 2s on the Zombies, as they are weak against fire and take out the mages with physical attacks while being careful to protect Max and your weak characters. It might also be advantageous to not allow your characters to make horizontal or vertical contact with one another so that the Dark Mages can only target them one at a time with Blaze 2. This strategy is important any time you face multiple magic users in a small area of a battle field. DON'T FORGET IT. Win the battle by reaching Manarina with Max or by sending your enemies to an early grave. (Personally, I'd give this battle a difficulty rating of 9/10... Why, you ask? Well, I admit that the beginning is easy, but the end is ridiculously difficult.

* You're in the desert. You can move only two or three spaces per turn.
* The zombies have such high defense that even with a blaze two, they can still sometimes take a physical hit and not die. (Every other monster in this battle will go down in one hit to a strong character like Max.)
* The magi are BEHIND the zombies, so unless you really work at it, they're going to get in a couple blaze twos each.
* It is not possible to slip Max into Manarina unscathed unless you use the rest of the force to draw them off, and even that doesn't work sometimes.)

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