When did Shining Soul II come out?

Shining Soul II was released on 24 July 2003 for Wii U and Game Boy Advance.

Shining Soul II (2003) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Shining Soul II

As monsters begin to appear in the kingdom Klantol, King Marcel announces a grand tournament at the coliseum to find a hero that can protect the country. Now, as a mighty Brawler, Priestess, Dark Wizard, or…

77 24 July 2003

What Shining Soul II is

Shining Soul II is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and released in 2003. It was published by Atlus. It is available on Wii U and Game Boy Advance.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Shining Soul II is an action role-playing game for the Game Boy Advance. It was developed by Grasshopper Manufacture, as the sequel to Shining Soul and part of the Shining series. The game was originally scheduled to be released on February 24, 2004, before it was delayed by two months.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Shining series

Shining Soul II is the third of 12 entries we hold in the Shining series. It arrived a year after Shining Soul. The next entry was Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon in 2004. Its critic score of 77 is 16 points above the series average of 61. The highest-rated entry is Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon at 87.

See all 12 Shining games in release order →

How it was received

Shining Soul II holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 8 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Shining Soul II launched on 24 July 2003, within three weeks of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, F-Zero GX, Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 and Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, F-Zero GX, Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic.

Cheats and codes

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