Shining Force (GEN – 1992)

Developed by Climax Entertainment and designed by Hiroyuki Takahashi and Yasuhiro Taguchi, Sega’s Shining Force is acutally the second game in the Shning series with the first being a more cRPG-like dungeon crawler. Shining Force switched things up and was a turn-based tactical RPG that took place on grids, similar to chess.