History VideoGame / ShiningForceGaidenGames

* CatFolk: Gyan, a playable character in the first two ''Gaiden'' games, is a cat beastman who serves as Prince Nick's bodyguard. As a Beast/Berserker, he takes the place of the Wolfman/Wolf Baron class from the mainline ''Shining Force'' games, being a unarmed frontline attacker whose movement is unaffected by terrain.\

* CatFolk: Gyan, a playable character in the first two ''Gaiden'' games, is a cat beastman who serves as Prince Nick's bodyguard. He takes the place of the Wolfman/Wolf Baron class from the mainline ''Shining Force'' games, being a frontline attacker whose movement is unaffected by terrain.

* MirrorMatch: In Book 3 of ''Shining Force CD''.

* CatFolk: Gyan from both Gaiden games.
* CharacterSelectForcing: [[BossRush Book 4]] of ''Shining Force CD'' restricts the player to using 12 characters across both ''Gaiden'' and ''Sword of Hajya''.

* ExtendedGameplay: The unlockable fourth book in ''Shining Force CD'', a BossRush.
* FakeKing: In ''The Sword of Hajya'', a king gets sacrificed to Iom, and one of Iom's minions take's the king's place.
* GaidenGame

* NeverSayDie: Averted, unlike most Shining Force games. The priests in ''Shining Force CD'' are quite blunt about it, saying something along the lines of "(Character name) was killed! [[DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist It will cost $100.]]"

* OpeningNarration: ''Shining Force CD'' has a voice-over explaining what had happened between the first Shining Force game and that one.
* RespawningEnemies: They appear in later missions; if you're extremely patient, you can simply have each of your party members keep killing them until everyone's leveled up [[GameBreaker far beyond what they were meant to at that point in the game]]. Of course, this might be why they don't show up often in other ''Shining Force'' games.

* WaveMotionGun: The approach to the Iom inner sanctum in ''Sword of Hajya'' is guarded by a Statue of Iom. Similarly to the Laser Eye at the end of Chapter 3 in ''VideoGame/ShiningForce'', it can only attack every fourth or fifth turn, and it attacks with a massive laser cannon that causes considerable damage to every unit in its path, friend or foe.

* ATasteOfPower: In ''Shining Force Gaiden'' the Force actually starts out with some pretty good equipment and should have little trouble in their first battle. However their ship is wrecked and all their weapons are lost, and during the next battle itself they have to search the wreckage for whatever pointy sticks they can find instead.

The ''Shining Force Gaiden'' games were released on the Sega GameGear (the first one never made it out of Japan), but were later [[CompilationRerelease repackaged]] and enhanced for the Sega CD as ''Shining Force CD'', today an exceedingly rare title. The story is a direct continuation of the first ''VideoGame/ShiningForce'' game. Of those, the first one stars Prince Nick of Cypress, who has to help Anri (part of the original Guardiana Shining Force who ascended to become Queen) find a cure for her poisoning at the hands of a rogue wizard named Woldol. At first, the people of Guardiana are suspicious of him, but eventually he turns out to be a trustworthy and effective leader, thus gaining their respect.

* BattleCouple: Deanna and Natasha become a couple by the end of ''The Sword of Hajya'', with {{Ship tease}}ing throughout the game.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Luke/Lug suddenly appears at the climax of ''Shining Force Gaiden'', to give the Sword of Hajya to Prince Nick to fight [[BigBad Wodol]].]]

* EnhancedRemake: ''Shining Force CD'' is this to the Gaiden games.

* RespawningEnemies: They occur in the Gaiden games; if you're extremely patient, you can simply have each of your party members keep killing them until everyone's leveled up [[GameBreaker far beyond what they were meant to at that point in the game]]. Of course, this might be why they don't show up often in other Shining Force games.

** Kashing is a knight with extremely high defense, but average attack.

** [[BareFistedMonk Sig]] lacks the attack power of [[GlassCannonCray]] or the healing ability of [[TheMedic Mayfair]], but is more durable than either of them.

* SaveThePrincess: A rare GenderFlip occurs in ''The Sword of Hajya'', where you must rescue the prince.

* FakeKing: In ''The Sword of Hayja'', a king gets sacrificed to Iom, and one of Iom's minions take's the king's place.

* LetsSplitUpGang: The Shining Force gets separated for a while in ''The Sword of Haija'' and you must work through a few battles with only six characters.

* SaveThePrincess: A rare GenderFlip occurs in ''The Sword of Haija'', where you must rescue the prince.

-->Gyan: Th...THAT??!!
-->Kisaragi: Yes, T...H...A...T!
-->Mayfair: That's disgusting!

* RespawningEnemies: They occur in the Gaiden games; if you're extremely patient, you can simply have each of your party members keep killing them until everyone's leveled up [[GameBreaker far beyond what they were meant to at that point in the game]]. Of course, this might be why they don't show up often in other Shining Force games.

The ''Shining Force Gaiden'' games were released on the Sega GameGear (the first one never made it out of Japan), but were later [[CompilationRerelease repackaged]] and enhanced for the Sega CD. The story is a direct continuation of the first ''VideoGame/ShiningForce'' game. Of those, the first one stars Prince Nick of Cypress, who has to help Anri (part of the original Guardiana Shining Force who ascended to become Queen) find a cure for her poisoning at the hands of a rogue wizard named Woldol. At first, the people of Guardiana are suspicious of him, but eventually he turns out to be a trustworthy and effective leader, thus gaining their respect.

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The third Gaiden game, also never released outside of Japan, is entitled ''Final Conflict'' and ties the stories of the first two Genesis games together, as well as serving as a prequel to ''Shining Force II'' by showing how remnants of Max's team and the survivors of Dark Dragon's army came to Parmecia after his disappearance.