Items (Shining Force)

Types of items

Healing items

The first major group of items is the Healing items, which help restore lost stats (HP and MP) or ailments (poison, paralysis, etc). These were usually sold in shops, but there are exceptions.

• HP restoring is usually individual, with two items, one for lower restoring and another for higher. The lower restoring item has always been consistent throughout the series: the Medical Herb, which restores about 10HP. The higher restoration was majorly the Healing Seed, which restores about 20HP. However, Shining Force II introduced the Healing Drop, which restores about 30HP, and the Healing Water, which restores full HP. Shining Force III dropped the Healing Seed completely and lowered the Healing Drop to that price, maintaining the Healing Water as well (renamed as Potion in the west). Another consistency of the series is a collective HP restoring item, the Shower of Cure, which restores either a lot or all HP for all party members.
• MP restoring was a novelty introduced with Shining Force II and carried on for Shining Force III, having both an individual item, the Fairy Tear (Shining Force III renamed it to Godess Tear), which restored about 20MP and a collective one, the Light of Hope, which restored all MP for all party members.
• Ailments were simply Poison in the first titles, cured by an Antidote Herb, which worked as a Detox Spell LV1. Shining Force II introduced other ailments, all cured by a Fairy Powder, which worked as a Detox Spell LV2, including the Poison but excluding Curse. Shining Force III expanded upon the ailments even more but maintained the structure, only downgrading the Paralysis to be cured by an Antidote Herb.
• The Angel Wing is not a healing item and has been consistent as well. It returns to the last priest available, acting like Egress LV1.

Boosting items

The second major group of items is the Boosting items, which permanently change any Stats points by a small margin. The original items changed every but LV and MP, but like many other things, Shining Force II introduced two additional items for these. The item names have changed within regions and more than the healing items, especially the attack and defence ones, but they’ve also been somewhat consistent. These items were usually found in exploration fields or dropped by enemies, never in shops.

• Brave Apple - Raises one level.
• Cheerful Bread - Raises maximum HP. Shining Force III renamed it to Health Bread.
• Bright Honey - Raises maximum MP. Shining Force III renamed it Brain Food in the west, though the sprite showed a hive with honey leaking.
• Power Potion / Wine - Raises base attack.
• Defense Potion / Armor Milk - Raises base defence.
• Quick Chicken - Raises base agility. Renamed from Legs of Haste in the original for all subsequent games.
• Running Pimento - Raises base movement. Renamed from Turbo Pepper in the original for all subsequent games and renamed in Shining Force III as Nimble Onion in the west.

Important items

The third major group of items is important items, found only in the main titles of the series. These act as keys to unlock parts of the story, either mandatory or discretionary. The majority of the latter are required to recruit secret characters for the forces but Shining Force III introduced Tomb Maps, which accessed Ruins within battles where several powerful items were stored.

Other items

Apart from the three major groups, these items are also present in the series:

• In Shining Force, there were two items that changed the characters’ attire.
• In Shining Force II, characters were promoted by carrying a specific item and then talking to a priest.
• In Shining Force II, several items could be used in battle to attack enemies, and functioned as spells of some sort. This was revisited in Shining Force III, albeit a minor appearance and the only item indeed corresponded to an existent spell.
• In Shining Force II it was possible to forge high quality items out of a piece of Mithril. Shining Force III expanded on the subject, by introducing pieces of Mithril that could be forged into accessories, material that could be forged into cursed weapons and exclusive to the third scenario, material that could be forged into very high quality weapons.

List of items by title

• All names are from the english versions. The exceptions are Shining Force Gaiden: Final Conflict and exclusive items from scenario II and III of Shining Force III, where unnoficial translated names are given instead. If given, the game description for each item is in italics.

Shining Force

Type	Sprite	Item	Cost (G)	Description
Healing		Medical Herb	10	Restores about 10 HP.
		Healing Seed	200	Restores about 20 HP.
		Antidote	20	Cures Poison (acts as Detox LV1),
		Shower of Cure	5000	Restores about 40 HP for all allies (not sold in any shop).
		Angel Wing	40	Returns to the last priest available (acts as Egress LV1).
Boosting		Bread of Life	500	Increases HP.
		Power Potion	500	Increases ATT.
		Defense Potion	500	Increases DEF.
		Legs of Haste	500	Increases AGI.
		Turbo Pepper	1500	Increases MOV.
Important		Orb of Light	-	Speak to the Spirit of the Holy Spring.
		Moon Stone	-	Exchange for Lunar Dew.
		Lunar Dew	-	Cures Zylo.
		Domingo Egg	2000	Hatches Domingo.
Miscellaneous		Sugoi Mizugi (Amazing Swimsuit)	200	Changes Tao's attire to a swimsuit.
		Kitui Huku (Tight Clothes)	200	Changes Anri's attire to a dress with a miniskirt).
		Teppou (Gun)	4	Useless.
		Kenji (Public Prosecutor)	4	Useless.
		Kaku-chan	4	Useless.
		Youji	4	Useless
		Kindan NoHako (Forbidden Box)	65000	Useless (only accessible by save state editing).

Shining Force Gaiden and CD

This table applies to Shining Force Gaiden, Shining Force II: The Sword of Hajya, and Shining Force CD.

Type	Sprite	Item	Cost (G)	Description
Healing		Medical Herb	10	Restores about 10HP.
		Healing Seed	200	Restores about 20HP.
		Healing Rain	20000	Restores all (?) HP for all allies (not sold in any shop).
		Antidote	20	Cures poison (acts as Detox LV1).
		Angel Wing	40	Returns to the last priest available (acts as Egress LV1).
Boosting		Cheerful Bread	500	Increases 4-5 HP.
		Powerful Wine	500	Increases 2-4 STR (attack).
		Protect Milk	500	Increases 2-4 DEF.
		Quick Chicken	500	Increases 2-4 AGI.
		Running Pimento	1500	Increases 1-2 MOV.

Shining Force II

Type	Sprite	Item	Cost (G)	Description
Healing		Medical Herb	10	Restores about 10HP.
		Healing Seed	200	Restores about 20HP.
		Healing Drop	300	Restores about 30HP.
		Healing Water	400	Restores all HP (not sold in any shop).
		Healing Rain	10000	Restores all HP for all allies (not sold in any shop).
		Fairy Tear	300	Restores about 20MP, (not sold in any shop).
		Right of Hope	10000	Restores all MP for all allies (not sold in any shop).
		Antidote	20	Cures Poison, (acts as Detox LV1).
		Fairy Powder	100	Cures every status ailment (acts as Detox LV2).
		Angel Wing	40	Returns to the last priest available (acts as Egress LV1).
Boosting		Cheerful Bread	500	Increases 4-5 HP.
		Bright Honey	500	Increases 4-5 MP.
		Powerful Water	500	Increases 2-4 ATK.
		Protect Milk	500	Increases 2-4 DEF.
		Quick Chicken	500	Increases 2-4 AGI.
		Running Pimento	1500	Increases 1-2 MOV.
		Brave Apple	2000	Increases 1 LV.
Attack		Shining Ball	1000	Delivers a maximum of 20HP damage.
		Blizzard	1200	Delivers a maximum of 33HP damage.
		Holy Thunder	1500	Delivers a maximum of 50HP damage.
Blacksmith		Mithril	2000	Material to forge a quality weapon.
Promotion		Warrior Pride	3000	Promotes from WARR (Warrior) to BRN (Baron).
		Pegasus Wing	3000	Promotes from KNTE (Knight) to PGNT (Pegasus Knight).
		Vigor Ball	3000	Promotes from PRST (Priest) to MMNK (Master Monk).
		Secret Book	3000	Promotes from MAGE (Mage) to SORC (Sorcerer).
		Silver Tank	3000	Promotes from ACHR (Archer) to Brass Gunner (BRGN)
Important		Arm of Golem	-	Recruts Claude.
		Cannon	-	Blasts Dynamite.
		Cotton Ballon	-	Allows leaving Desktop Kingdom.
		Dry Stone	-	Dries river north of Galam.
		Dynamite	-	Used by Cannon, blows cave wall.
		Jewel of Evil	-	1/2 to get the Force Sword.
		Jewel of Light	-	1/2 to get the Force Sword.
		Sky Orb	-	Activates Nazca Ship.
		Wooden Panel	-	Opens path in Ribble tree.

Shining Force Gaiden: Final Conflict

Type	Item	Cost (G)	Description
Healing	Medical Herb	10	Restores about 10HP.
	Healing Seed	200	Restores about 20HP.
	Shower of Cure	20000	Restores all HP for all allies (not sold in any shop).
	Antidote	20	Cures Poison, (acts as Detox LV1).
	Angel Wing	40	Returns to the last priest available (acts as Egress LV1).
Boosting	Bread of Life	500	Increases 2-4 HP.
	Power Wine	500	Increases 2-4 ATK.
	Protect Milk	500	Increases 2-4 DEF.
	Quick Chicken	500	Increases 2-4 AGI.
	Running Pimento	1500	Increases 1-2 MOV.
	Brave Apple	1500	Increases 1 LV.

• None of the gaidens had an english release and none of them had sprites for items either.

Shining Force III

Type	Sprite	Item	Cost (G)	Description
Healing		Delicious Meat	15	Recovers 5HP (scenario III, exclusive to Dormant Village).
		Medical Herb	10	Recovers about 10HP.
		Healing Drop	200	Recovers about 30HP.
		Potion	300	Completely recovers HP (not sold in any shop).
		Healing Rain	10000	Completely recovers everyone's HP (not sold in any shop).
		Goddess Tear	300	Recovers about 20MP (not sold in any shop).
		Hope Light	20000	Completely recovers everyone's MP (not sold in any shop).
		Antidote	20	Effect of Antidote LV1 (cures poison and paralysis).
		Fairy Powder	100	Effect of Antidote LV2 (cures every status ailment except Cursed).
		Angel Wing	40	Effect of Return LV1 (returns to the last priest available).
Boosting		Health Bread	500	Raises Maximum HP (2-4 HP).
		Brain Food	500	Raises Maximum MP (2-4 MP).
		Power Wine	500	Raises Atk (2-4 ATK).
		Armor Milk (West)	500	Raises Def (2-4 DEF).
		Quick Chicken	500	Raises Agility (2-4 AGL)..
		Nimble Onion	1500	Raises Speed (1-2 MOV (not past 9)).
		Happy Cookie	1000	Raises Luck (1-2 LCK (not past 9)).
		Brave Apple	2000	Raises level by 1 (1 LV).
Attack		Freeze Ball	300	Casts Freeze LV2 (scenario II, III).
Blacksmith		Small Mithril	500	Can be forged in a Smithy. Material to forge accessories.
		Large Mithril	2000	Can be forged in a Smithy. Material to forge quality weapons.
		Dark Matter	1200	Can be forged in a Smithy. Material to forge cursed weapons.
		Orifalcon	5000	Can be forged in a Smithy. Material to forge high-quality weapons (scenario III).
Important		Cut Flowers	12	Lovely Flower, not edible. Extra line of speech from flower seller in Saraband (scenario I) and essencial to get Ruin Map #5 (scenario II).
		Chicken Feed	120	Yummy, chickens love it. Using it on certain chickens makes them follow the force leader.
		Large Egg	300	An egg - chirps if you speak to it. To hatch Penn (scenario I).
		Penko Egg	300	To hatch Penko (scenario II).
		Robbie's Eye	-	To awaken Robbie (scenario II)
		Ruin Map	-	Old Map - shows ancient [ruin name]. If in the party's inventory while on battle, it allows access to the correspondent ruins (six per scenario: 300G, 600G, 900G, 1200G, 1500G, 1800G).
		Ship's Key	-	A key with an anchor on it...?. To rescue Rogan (scenario II, if adquired in scenario I).
		Statue Gem	-	Gem from a statue in Aspia. To access Aspia Catacombs (scenario I)).
		Prison Key	50	To set Donhort free (scenario II).
		Secret Key	-	To access Saraband's Government District (scenario II).
		Prison Key	-	To set Medion's battalion free in battle #21 (scenario II).

• The Freeze Ball (scenario II), Large Mithril and Orifalcon (both scenario III) are accessible in deals and/or haggles, but aren't usually bought in stores.