Shining in the Darkness is one of those games that provides you with a role-playing gameplay experience which is also the first of its kind in the Shining series. Developed by Climax Entertainment Sonic! Software planning this game was launched in 1991. This game has received many positive reviews from the players based on its story and gameplay. The game's graphics were highly detailed with a very interactive background setting, which made the gameplay very much engaging. Sega Pro provided the game with a 93/100 praising the game on its dungeon crawler feature, which excited the players. The computer gaming world appreciated the game for using its unique combat system with interactive and creative animation. Reviewers of Dragon gave this game a score of 4/5 for its first-person perspective gameplay experience.
The plot of this game is based in a kingdom known as Thornwood. The evil sorcerer known as Dark Sol is a great danger to the kingdom while the father of the main character and the king's daughter has suddenly vanished. The gameplay character's primary goal is to save the kingdom from the evil sorcerer Dark Sol and rescue the princess and his father. There are some plot stories and many scenarios which are a follow-up to Shining Force II.
This game's gameplay requires engagement and creativity to solve problems as it involves puzzles and mazes based on a 3D background. You control the gameplay character in the game and two friends Pyra and Milo, which discover the world in the game and perform many tasks and face many battles. At the end of every stage in this game, you would face a boss fight. Rescuing all the characters in the game depends on you, like the story's changes according to the game's circumstances. Icon based menu system in the game makes the combat much more straightforward and understandable.
Animation and sound quality play a significant role in a game when the gameplay is based on role play. Megadrive emulator provides an interrupted display and performance of a game on various gaming consoles, giving you many choices. The range you get on games that you can play on this emulator is huge, consisting of Sega and Genesis games. Some emulators do not offer full-screen display but not in Megadrive as it provides a full-screen display with the ability to save and load the game. Some Megadrive emulators are Fusion, Gen, BizHawk, Gens Plus, etc.
