Thank you, Tony Taka!
2018-07-12Tony Taka sent us this portrait of Kirika as congratulations on the launch of Shining Resonance Refrain! Thank you, Tony!
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SEGA / Jul 9, 2018 / Adventure, RPG
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ComparePlay as Yuma Ilvern and stop the Empire from exploiting the power of the ancient dragons, including the soul of the Shining Dragon within you. With the help of your friends, realize your destiny, save Astoria, and unleash the strength you’ve always had locked away.
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Tony Taka sent us this portrait of Kirika as congratulations on the launch of Shining Resonance Refrain! Thank you, Tony!
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64% positive, 603 reviews
Shining Resonance Refrain is a repetitive hack-and-slash ARPG with dating sim elements. Although the graphics are outdated, the game remains pleasant to look at thanks to the attractive character designs by popular illustrator Tony Taka. Grinding is necessary to gather crafting materials, empower your party, and level up to defeat bosses. The worst part is that benched party members do not receive XP, making the...
0 found this helpful, 2026-09-15
- Boring story, boring dialogues. - Unclear side quests' instructions. - Visual Novel game when characters talk. - Too much grinding requirement to play. - No fast travel. - Repeatitive side quests. No wonder the game usually has big sale.
0 found this helpful, 2026-09-11
the game is very fun for me and i love it, i appreciate the story tho i wish it had new game plus.
0 found this helpful, 2026-09-07
Originally released in 2014, Shining Resonance is a unique JRPG with greatly enjoyable lore, an innovative combat system, and interesting mechanics. Refrain adds bonus content and additional playable characters. Had a great time through multiple playthroughs. Worth a look, especially for JRPG fans.
57 found this helpful, 2026-08-15
Dragon song awakes steel and music intertwine hope rings in the note
0 found this helpful, 2026-08-23
run at 4k high at 100 plus fps
1 found this helpful, 2026-06-26
It's an old school JRPG so has some flaws and can get frustrating at times. However I like the game and personally like the Shining series and art style as a whole. Great OST. Some of the more specific annoying aspects are your teammates actions and lack of general awareness in fights, especially boss fights the AI will get themselves downed often. Speaking of boss battles, some of these can be frustrating as they...
5 found this helpful, 2026-03-28
This game expects you to do so much narrationless grinding in order to raise your level and acquire power ups that it is insane. The game doesn't teach you this, but the difficulty curve makes it evident once you see the infinitely respawning enemies and how they jump many levels above you after pretty much every story beat. The combat is a game of stats more than anything, and the devs expect you to slog through...
12 found this helpful, 2026-06-08
I'd only recommend this if you are a huge jrpg fan and have exhausted the list of studio jrpgs on Steam; even then, only buy it at a steep discount. Combat becomes repeating one combo over and over again. Boss battles become buff yourself with music, turn into a dragon, and spam attack. If you don't kill the boss during the dragon phase you go back to spamming the same original combo. The story and the characters...
9 found this helpful, 2026-05-18
I just don't think it holds up to modern RPG and JRPG standards. It really doesn't feel smooth to play, and I feel this makes the game feel needlessly difficult, unless it's just meant that way and supposed to be compensated with grind, can't really tell. (You also sometimes get forced out of playing your standard cast which is a massive nerf unless you planned for it.) Voicing is fine, music is fine, characters...
5 found this helpful, 2026-06-02