What French developer Enigami has managed to achieve with Shiness is admirable considering its humble beginnings. It's clear that a lot of blood, sweat, and tears went into making this adventure a reality. It's also clear that the developers fell victim to the same bogeymen that typically hinder most ambitious indie projects: time and money. Albeit flawed, Shiness is an indie gem that doesn't quite live up to its potential, yet still puts many big budget games to shame.
Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom is a beautiful action RPG full of fantastic and varied gameplay. Although traditional fans of the genre may find its unconventional combat off-putting, there's definitely enough here to enjoy.
This game is amazing! I've been playing it for a few hours, and I really like the story, the gameplay, the artistic style and the soundtrack. For the company's first game, it's very strong.
Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom is a reach too far for a small indie studio to handle and it shows. While the game plays well and looks fantastic, the lack of a decent story shows that the developers were under tight budget and time restraints. If they would have had more time and money I believe that Shiness could had easily been a better game. While Shiness has some positives like the overall design and the combat, the lack of a compelling story ruined the experience.
Draws intelligently from numerous influences, yet fails to craft an identity of its own. A snack-sized RPG that's a serviceable side-quest to tackle between epics. [June 2017, p.83]
Enigami’s attempt to craft a full Action-RPG experience as an indie developer deserves praise, and, visually at least, it comes close to aping its peers. However, a meaningless story, awful dialogue, irritating combat and an utter lack of pace sees it come up short in every other area that matters.
Hey this is an indie title that strives for greatness. it has this naruto anime **** is colorful and has fun and lively characters great game to tell the truth its the music that keeps me playing the driving beat, the anime action rpg elements make this great. plus it got it on psn for 7 bucks GREAT GAME
If you love RPGs with personality, originality and heart, PLEASE, don't skip this one. It does suffer from lack of polish and some smaller bugs and glitches, but the good things are so good that you'll barely notice. Great combat system, great cast of characters, very good music and tracks, great art style, and surprisingly good plot and length, this is a gem.
Shiness: The Lighting Kingdom
A game that grows on you.
In shiness the lighting kingdom you play as chado trying to get to the source of the evil shi…
And as you progress through the story you unlock companions that join in on your adventure...
This game took a while for me to like…
It’s a very awkward feeling game... and from the combat to the platforming its stiff…
Even by the games end I still wasn’t in love… but I did come to ultimately enjoy this game…
The worst part of this game is the puzzles…
Each character has a unique ability that lets them solve pieces to puzzles that stop game progression…
you never know when one will show up.. but thankfully even though you can only have 3 members in your party at a time, you can quickly swap characters in and out of your team when these puzzles do appear and you don’t have the right character with you…
Thankfully these puzzles are easy, but still a bit annoying…
Other than solving puzzles which are few and far between, you’ll be going to a point on the map in the various locations you visit and try to avoid or defeat every enemy in your way to level up…
The combat system though much like the entire game takes some getting used to and definitely lacks a bit of polish…
You can parry attacks, block them, roll, kick and punch… use disciplines you unlock from shops, chests and defeating enemies for in battle perks or unlocking magic attacks that use one of the 4 shi elements…
It’s easy enough to spam ranged attacks, though some enemies are immune to certain magic and there is a certain amount of shi you can use before you go to a save point and restock..
But each battle takes place in a dome that changes colors, and your character is able to concentrate to refill needed shi during battle and get a boost of regeneration if the elements match…
And eventually you’ll be able to do a hyper moves which pauses the battle and lets you quickly put in the right button combination on screen and pull off a power move that usually take away about half of an enemies health…
The problem with this though is that it gets a little old watching the scene playout each time…
You are able to skip the animation, but I found doing so will sometimes cause the game to not read any damage done to your opponent, but still depletes your hyper meter…
So in tough fights I advise not taking the chance by skipping
And speaking of bugs and unpolish…
You are able to able to switch between any of the 4 characters in your party anytime during battle as well as map commands such as heal with enemy and ally stipulations..
But the switching isn’t the most responsive system in the world…
I found myself mashing the swap button to make sure my character didn’t die…
And occasionally you’ll kind of be forced to swap when your character gets stuck midair.. which was rare, but did happen a few times…
I also ran into a bug after a certain boss about 10 hours into the game that after defeating them my character got stuck behind an invisible wall…
Which are everywhere… in places that they shouldn’t be so that if it does happen players can hop back into the map instead of being stuck and having to quit the game, reload and fight the boss all over again like I did… and after defeating them the 2nd time.. My character was standing on air again... but thankfully I could jump forward to stop it from happening again…
Shiness: The Lighting Kingdom is an enjoyable journey…
I had fun…
I enjoyed swapping the disciplines, learning new combos for my characters, swapping the gear in my party and I loved the fact that non active party members leveled up with the rest of my crew…
But a lack of polish definitely hold this good game back from being great…
I give Shiness: The Lighting Kingdom
a 7.0/10
Che vergogna...arrivo ad un passo dalla fine di questo "gioco " un insieme di bug ....e il gioco non mi permette di continuare per un bug ...insomma incastrato in un maledetto treno...capisco il gioco a basso budget ma qui si esagera... che tristezza...
SummaryShiness is an Action-RPG developed by indie development studio Enigami, which will let you travel in a captivating universe doomed to destruction ever since the fragmentation of the planet Mahera...