On its surface, it appears to be a naked homage of Nintendo’s Fire Emblem series, sharing a great deal in common with the second installment on the Famicom in particular. Shining Force has a somewhat complicated lineage. For now, let’s talk about Shining Force, a game that has a very different reputation depending on which side of which ocean you live in. Let’s hope I have more reasons to come back to the house that Suzuki built in the future. At least they’re pretty different games, right? With this, I’m pretty sure every SEGA and SEGA-related RPG on the App Store has been covered in the RPG Reload.

I didn’t plan to do both SEGA Genesis RPGs back to back, but that’s how it worked out. I swear, I had Shining Force ($0.99) on the schedule for this week from about four months ago. Then there was last week, when Phantasy Star 2 (Free), the selection of one fine reader was featured. There was that time you guys chose The Quest ($4.99) when I was planning to do it the next week anyway. Sometimes unexpected things happen in the RPG Reload. I don’t know what it will be, but I’m pretty sure we’re fresh out of SEGA games now! Simply let me know which game you’d like to see by commenting below, posting in the Official RPG Reload Club thread, or by tweeting me at The winner will be randomly chosen and featured in April’s reader’s choice article. Once per month, the selection of the game falls to you, the reader. The RPG genre is as vast as the ocean, and I try to schedule games in such a way that we get a balanced plate as we go along, but I need your help with that.

Each week, we take a look at an RPG from the App Store’s past for a little revisiting, a little reflecting, and a bit of a deeper dive than our regular reviews typically allow us. Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the weekly feature where we discover that there’s a little Jogurt in all of us.

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