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Shining in the Darkness, called Shining and the Darkness (シャイニング＆ザ・ダクネス) in Japan, is a 1991 game by Sega and Climax Entertainment for the Sega Mega Drive. It is the first game in Sega's Shining series. Unlike most of the other games in the franchise, it is a 3D dungeon crawler RPG.
Contents
Story
Map
You are the son of Mortred, a warrior who was last seen near a dungeon known as the Labyrinth in the Kingdom of Thornwood with Princess Jessa. King Drake summons you to go find her, but just as that is about to happen, the evil Dark Sol appears and offers a ransom: Mortred and the Princess for the kingdom.
It is now up to you to rescue the two, defeat Dark Sol, and save the kingdom.
Gameplay
Dungeon and battle
Status screens
The game is a first-person dungeon crawler. It takes place in three areas: the Castle, the Town, and the Labyrinth. The Castle contains the King and his Court, and it is where plot progression usually takes place. The Town contains shops where the player can buy weapons, armor, and items, save the game, heal or revive in the church, and talk to townsfolk. In the Castle and Town, use 
and 
to navigate and 
or 
to interact. The Labyrinth is the game's dungeon and where all the battles take place.
The Labyrinth is a 3D maze. 
moves forward, and turn, and 
moves backward. or opens an icon-based menu that allows the player to search the area, manage items, or check the status of members of the party. 
dismisses menus. Enemy encounters happen randomly throughout the Labyrinth. Battles are turn-based and conducted through a similar menu. Characters gain experience and gold from defeating enemies. After earning enough experience, they gain levels that increase their statistics. Statistics include:
- IQ: The character's intelligence, which affects the character's resistance to enemy magic and the damage of his or her spells.
- Speed: Determines how often the character gets a turn in combat.
- Luck: The probability that the character will strike a critical hit. Also the character's immunity to ailments such as poison.
- Attack: The character's attack strength, which is augmented by weapons.
- Defense: The character's defensive strength, which is augmented by armor pieces.
If the main character dies in battle, the player is taken back to the church in the town with half the gold. If another character dies, he or she can be revived at the church in town.
The player is initially alone but gains two additional party members early in the game. Additionally, the dungeon contains three characters in need of rescue. Rescuing any or all of the three is optional, and the story changes depending on whether or not the player locates and returns each of these characters to safety.
The Labyrinth has five levels. After completing the four Trials of the Ancients (Strength, Wisdom, Courage and Truth) in the first level, the player gains access to the remaining levels of the Labyrinth, called the Labyrinth Proper.
Characters
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| The main character is named by the player. Unlike the protagonists of the Shining Force name, he has no default name if the player chooses not enter a name, though he is called "Hiro" in the game data before his name is replaced by the player's name. He is a knight and cannot use magic. He has the highest strength and hit points but the lowest intelligence, speed, and defense. He has the ability to try to run from an encounter. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Milo Brax | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Milo is a healer who learns defensive and support spells. He has the highest luck.
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Pyra is a mage who learns powerful offensive spells. She has low attack power but high speed and defense. She can be equipped with whips, which hit multiple targets in one turn, or staves, which are higher power but can only attack one enemy at a time.
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Magic
Some spells can only be used in battle, some spells can only be used out of battle, and some can be used both in and out of battle.
| Category | Name | Level | Mana cost | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auxiliary | Egress | 1 | 9 | Escapes the battle and returns to town. |
| View | 1 | 1 | Shows a map of the area. | |
| Vision | 1 | 1 | Shows information about an item. | |
| Healing | Detox | 1 | 3 | Cures poison. |
| 2 | 5 | Cures poison and paralysis. | ||
| Heal | 1 | 3 | Restores 20-30 HP. | |
| 2 | 5 | Restores 70-80 HP. | ||
| 3 | 10 | Restores all HP for an individual unit. | ||
| 4 | 50 | Restores all HP for all party members. | ||
| Revive | 1 | 15 | Revives a fallen party member with partial HP. | |
| 2 | 35 | Revives a fallen party member with full HP. | ||
| Offensive | Blast | 1 | 2 | Deals wind magic damage. |
| 2 | 4 | |||
| 3 | 8 | |||
| 4 | 14 | |||
| Blaze | 1 | 2 | Deals fire magic damage. | |
| 2 | 4 | |||
| 3 | 8 | |||
| 4 | 14 | |||
| Bolt | 1 | 5 | Deals lightning magic damage. | |
| 2 | 8 | |||
| 3 | 20 | |||
| 4 | 40 | |||
| Burst | 1 | 5 | Deals fire magic damage. | |
| 2 | 8 | |||
| 3 | 12 | |||
| 4 | 20 | |||
| Freeze | 1 | 3 | Deals ice magic damage. | |
| 2 | 5 | |||
| 3 | 10 | |||
| 4 | 17 | |||
| Desoul | 1 | 8 | Small chance of one-hit kill. | |
| 2 | 15 | |||
| Support | Boost | 1 | 9 | Boosts attack. |
| 2 | 20 | |||
| Muddle | 1 | 3 | Confuses target. | |
| 2 | 7 | |||
| Peace | 1 | 7 | Prevents weaker monsters from attacking. | |
| Quick | 1 | 3 | Boosts speed. | |
| 2 | 5 | |||
| Screen | 1 | 4 | Silences target (prevents casting magic). | |
| 2 | 6 | |||
| Sleep | 1 | 4 | Puts target to sleep. | |
| 2 | 6 | |||
| Slow | 1 | 2 | Lowers enemy's defense and speed. | |
| 2 | 5 |
History
Development
Shining in the Darkness was a joint venture developed by Sega's newly founded Sonic Co. and a team at Climax Entertainment, headed by Hiroyuki Takahashi, a rising star in the world of RPG development. Takahashi was seen as a good fit for the project because of his previous involvement in Enix's popular Dragon Quest series. However, corporate reasoning gave Shining and the Darkness a minimal development budget and a small four-man team, meaning that Climax was responsible for the bulk of the game's development.
| “ | Because we were on such a tight budget, apart from the programming and graphics, I did nearly all of the work on Shining in the Darkness. I suppose the basic concept behind Darkness was "realism." I thought it would be exciting if the player could actually travel to a fantasy world and walk around, exploring old houses, dungeons and other places. It was in essence a continuation of the sense of excitement you'd get from moving through the dungeons in older games such as Wizardry. By "reality," I'm not talking about true realism – I mean the feeling that you really are progressing through actual houses and dungeons, and the same thing applied to the battles. | „ |
Nevertheless, Shining in the Darkness was a success for the company and led to other entries in the Shining franchise, most notably the next game, Shining Force.
Versions
Localised names
| Language | Localised Name | English Translation |
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| English | Shining in the Darkness | Shining in the Darkness |
| English (US) | Shining in the Darkness | Shining in the Darkness |
| Japanese | シャイニング＆ザ・ダクネス | Shining and the Darkness |
Production credits
- Written and Produced by: Hiroyuki Takahashi
- Special Effects: Yasuhiro Taguchi
- Assistant Director: Yoshinori Tagawa, Bob Timbello
- Artwork and Design: Hidehiro Yoshida
- Outline and Storyboards: Yoshitaka Tamaki
- Music: Masahiko Yoshimura
- Visual Support: Ryutaro Ishimatsu
- Technical Support: Haruki Kodera
- Director: Kan Naitoh
- Special Thanks: Media Mixture, Mad Cap
- Executive Producer: Sega Enterprises
- Created by: Climax
- Japanese cover artist: Yoshitaka Tamaki
Digital manuals
Steam manual
Magazine articles
- Main article: Shining in the Darkness/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
Mega Drive print advert in Computer & Video Games (UK) #120: "November 1991" (1991-10-15)
Ad with quotes from Hiroyuki Takahashi and Kan Naitoh in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1991-03: "March 1991" (1991-02-08)
also published in:
also published in:
- Mega Drive Fan (JP) #14: "March 1991" (1991-02-08)[19]
Print advert in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1991-04: "April 1991" (1991-03-08)
also published in:
also published in:
- Mega Drive Fan (JP) #15: "April 1991" (1991-03-08)[20]
Advertisement on bottom half of page in Mega Drive Fan (JP) #16: "May 1991" (1991-04-08)
Artwork
Physical scans
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Technical information
ROM dump status
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1MB | 1997-06 | Cartridge (BR) |
External links
- Sega of Japan Virtual Console pages: Mega Drive
- Nintendo catalogue pages: US, UK, AU
- Shining in the Darkness on Steam
References
- ↑ File:SitD MD JP Box.jpg
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://sega.jp/history/hard/megadrive/software.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-07-20 09:51)
- ↑ https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.video/c/CPV6hrGp_d4/m/9EpVhNiDfEcJ
- ↑ File:CGW US 091.pdf, page 22
- ↑ Sega Pro, "November 1991" (UK; 1991-xx-xx), page 9
- ↑ Computer & Video Games, "November 1991" (UK; 1991-10-15), page 83
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/yCO37nvA4Ck5A7m_G3GEmGBstzt3YuTZ (Wayback Machine: 2010-11-23 02:24)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 http://www.nintendolife.com/games/megadrive/shining_in_the_darkness (Wayback Machine: 2017-10-31 18:34)
- ↑ https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Virtual-Console-Wii-/Shining-in-the-Darkness--278909.html (archive.today)
- ↑ https://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/vc/software/03.html (Wayback Machine: 2018-03-06 00:26)
- ↑ http://vc.sega.jp:80/vc_shiningdarkness/ (Wayback Machine: 2007-06-10 16:58)
- ↑ http://www.nintendo.com.au/index.php?action=catalogue&prodcat_id=41&prod_id=19767&pageID=4 (Wayback Machine: 2012-04-03 02:34)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 https://steamdb.info/app/71161/ (Wayback Machine: 2019-11-13 00:00)
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 http://steamdb.info/app/71161/ (Wayback Machine: 2013-05-22 20:00)
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 15.8 15.9 https://steamdb.info/app/71161/history/?changeid=5755274
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 16.6 16.7 16.8 16.9 http://steamdb.info/app/71161/ (Wayback Machine: 2019-11-13 00:00)
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/GamesTMThe25GreatestSEGAGames/page/n25/mode/2up
- ↑ Sega TV Game Genga Gallery, Graphic Sha, page 35
- ↑ Mega Drive Fan, "March 1991" (JP; 1991-02-08), page 2
- ↑ Mega Drive Fan, "April 1991" (JP; 1991-03-08), page 2
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 206
- ↑ Ação Games, "Novembro 1997" (BR; 1997-xx-xx), page 8
- ↑ Aktueller Software Markt, "Dezember 1991" (DE; 1991-11-15), page 138
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "April 1991" (JP; 1991-03-08), page 29
- ↑ Consoles +, "Novembre 1991" (FR; 1991-11-07), page 92
- ↑ Console XS, "June/July 1992" (UK; 1992-04-23), page 134
- ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 186
- ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 8, "" (RU; 2001-10-04), page 295
- ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 88
- ↑ Games-X, "11th-17th July 1991" (UK; 1991-07-11), page 38
- ↑ Games-X, "24th-30th October 1991" (UK; 1991-10-24), page 36
- ↑ Hippon Super, "April 1991" (JP; 1991-03-04), page 40
- ↑ Joypad, "Décembre 1991" (FR; 1991-11-19), page 73
- ↑ Joystick, "Décembre 1991" (FR; 1991-1x-xx), page 121
- ↑ Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "January 1993" (UK; 199x-xx-xx), page 63
- ↑ Mega Drive Fan, "June 1991" (JP; 1991-05-08), page 91
- ↑ Mega, "March 1994" (UK; 1994-02-17), page 71
- ↑ Mega Force, "Novembre 1991" (FR; 1991-11-19), page 92
- ↑ MegaTech, "Xmas 1991" (UK; 1991-12-06), page 80
- ↑ Mean Machines, "November 1991" (UK; 1991-10-29), page 112
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "October 1992" (UK; 1992-09-xx), page 140
- ↑ Player One, "Décembre 1991" (FR; 1991-xx-xx), page 58
- ↑ Play Time, "2/92" (DE; 1992-01-08), page 93
- ↑ Power Play, "12/91" (DE; 1991-11-13), page 170
- ↑ Sega Power, "October 1991" (UK; 1991-09-05), page 54
- ↑ Sega Power, "March 1992" (UK; 1992-02-06), page 38
- ↑ Sega Pro, "November 1991" (UK; 1991-xx-xx), page 58
- ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1992" (UK; 1992-03-19), page 28
- ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 67
- ↑ Sega Force, "January 1992" (UK; 1991-12-12), page 52
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 85
- ↑ Super Gaming, "Fall 1991" (US; 1991-xx-xx), page 6
- ↑ Tilt, "Décembre 1991" (FR; 1991-1x-xx), page 50
- ↑ Tricks Gold, "Sega dlya strategov" (RU; 2003-01-09), page 162
- ↑ VideoGames & Computer Entertainment, "November 1991" (US; 1991-1x-xx), page 38
- ↑ Video Games, "3/91" (DE; 1991-09-06), page 82
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