On one hand, this game does impress me with some nice ideas and easily trumps most dungeon hacks I've played, but on the other they totally screwed themselves by making such a repetitive, long game with bad framerate problems. That was my one and only strategy within this game. During battles I mostly just watched my health meter while I tapped the circle button over and over again. For one, the game extremely slows down if there is that many (as mentioned above) and you can't even see what you're doing if there's 50+ enemies on the screen at a time. Another annoying thing about the game is how they promote how many monsters they can get on the screen (up to 90!), which is really impressive, but it hurts the end product. It was crazy how long this game ended up being. The fighting is extremely repetitive and the game is 47 hours long, for a game with a repetitive battle system, the game should never exceed 20 hours atleast. The graphics have to many bugs, like extreme slowdowns. The storyline is cliche as you can get if you compare it to any other RPG out there.
I ended the game with 130 levels, without a single minute of level grinding! The graphics are the best dungeon hack graphics I've seen of last gen. The skill and leveling up system is far superior than those previous Dungeon Hacks as well, because in those games they usally level cap you, and you could only learn a handful of skills since they capped your skill points after a while too, but in Shining Force Neo you could gain MORE than 99 levels, and then some. Shining Force Neo atleast has a well thought out plot, simple dialog and rememberable characters. If you've played any dungeon hacks like Dark Alliance, Champions of Norrath, etc then you'll notice that those games barely have a plot to stand on, with forgettable characters and generic dialog you could sleep through. The things Shining Force Neo did correctly (for a dungeon hack) was the storyline. For a pure and simple dungeon hack, Shining Force Neo did alot of things right, and many things wrong.
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