Shining Resonance Refrain
A remastered version of the game Shining Resonance released in 2014 on the PlayStation 3. It includes, all the DLCs, a 'refrain mode', a higher resolution that runs at 60fps, rebalanced gameplay, new costumes…
Shining Resonance Refrain is an adventure developed by Media.Vision, released 29 March 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $5.99 at Steam.
What Shining Resonance Refrain is
Shining Resonance Refrain is an adventure game developed by Media.Vision and released in 2018. It was published by Sega. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Yuma Ilvern has the soul of the Shining Dragon within himself. Dragons were long thought to be extinct, and because Yuma holds the ability to transform into one of the most powerful of their kind to ever live, he was taken as a captive of the Lombardian Empire. He is rescued by the princess of Astoria, Sonia, with the help of the Dragoneers, royal knights capable of using weapons imbued with the power of dragons. She pleads with Yuma to aid them in their fight to save their land from the Empire’s dominion. Typically timid, will Yuma find the courage to realize the strength he has within him?
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Shining series
Shining Resonance Refrain is the 11th of 12 entries we hold in the Shining series. It arrived 3 years after Shining Resonance. The next entry was VR Figure from Shining: Kirika Towa Alma in 2018. Its critic score of 62 is almost exactly the series average of 61. The highest-rated entry is Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon at 87.
How it was received
Shining Resonance Refrain holds a critic score of 62 out of 100. That places it above 21% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 7 points below the year average.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $5.99 at Steam, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Shining Resonance Refrain launched on 29 March 2018, within three weeks of Far Cry 5, Sea of Thieves, A Way Out and Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Far Cry 5, Sea of Thieves, A Way Out, Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom.
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