History VideoGame / ShiningTheHolyArk

* InfantImmortality: Julian. But averted with stories of Elise eating children.

* DefeatMeansPlayable: For all the characters, bar maybe Akane.

* ChestMonster: Quite a nasty one too; the Chest Ghost has Soul Steal and has a habit of killing of Basso in an area where you really need him.

* ChestMonster

* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass

To help them out they meet up with female paladin Lisa, dragonman Basso, Female ninja Akane and the half-wolf ninja Doyle.

''Shining The Holy Ark'' was the ninth installment of the ''Franchise/ShiningSeries'' but the gameplay shares more in common with the original ''ShiningInTheDarkness'' than any other title in the franchise. It was a first person Dungeon Crawler rather than a strategy game. It’s also an indirect prequel to ''ShiningForceIII'' as Justin appears in the game as a young boy.

* InfantImmortality: Justin. But averted with stories of Elise eating children.

* Wutai: Far East Village.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Basso.

* HumongousMecha

* OurDragonsAreDifferent

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Doyle again.

* TempleOfDoom

* WhenTreesAttack

* WallMaster

* EvilChancellor

* TheGoodChancellor

* HalfHumanHybrid: Doyle.

* TheMaze: Every. Single. Level.

* SealedEvilInACan

* FrictionlessIce: While traveling through the mountain pass. Thanks to all the holes that would lead you drop you into the previous areas this was pretty tedious.
* GoddamnedBats

* FrictionlessIce

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Shining of the Holy Ark Contains the following tropes:

In game three mercenaries Arthur, Melody and Forte are tasked with hunting down a ninja called Rodi who has holed up in an abandoned mine. When the group finally catch up to the ninja a space-ship smashes through the roof; mortally wounding everybody involved. In order to save their lives the Spirits inside the ship possess Arthur, Melody and Rodi; while still retaining their free will they gain additional skills. During this however Forte gets possessed by an evil spirit and goes missing.

Arthur, Melody and Rodi decide to temporally combine forces in order to escape the deadly mine, find Forte and fine out just what is going on with these mysterious Spirits. Along the way they uncover an evil plot to revive a powerful Vandal that would doom the world to an age of darkness.

* DefeatMeansPlayable

* HeroesPreferSwords

* TankControls

‘’Shining The Holy Ark’’ was the ninth installment of the ''Franchise/ShiningSeries'' but the gameplay shares more in common with the original ‘’ShiningInTheDarkness’’ than any other title in the franchise. It was a first person Dungeon Crawler rather than a strategy game. It’s also an indirect prequel to ''ShiningForceIII'' as Justin appears in the game as a young boy.

* DefeatMeansPlayable

* SealedEvilInACan

‘’Shining The Holy Ark’’ was the ninth installment of the {{Shining}} series but the gameplay shares more in common with the original ‘’ShiningInTheDarkness’’ than any other title in the franchise. It was a first person Dungeon Crawler rather than a strategy game. It’s also an indirect prequel to ''ShiningForceIII'' as Justin appears in the game as a young boy.

‘’Shining Of The Holy Ark’’ was the ninth installment of the {{Shining}} series but the gameplay shares more in common with the original ‘’ShiningInTheDarkness’’ than any other title in the franchise. It was a first person Dungeon Crawler rather than a strategy game. It’s also an indirect prequel to ''ShiningForceIII'' as Justin appears in the game as a young boy.