marked the beginning of the successful Shining series. The second game in the Shining series, Shining Force, diverged greatly in gameplay; however, many stylistic parts are reminiscent of Shining in the Darkness, including music and art. Other features such as the distinctive menu system, the use of priests for saving games and resurrecting characters, and several magic spells that would continue to be used in every game in the series up to and including Shining Force III, with the notable exception of Shining Wisdom. These games also all share story continuity, even Wisdom. A Shining game with similar gameplay, Shining the Holy Ark'', was released for the Sega Saturn in 1996. Notes References External links First-person party-based dungeon crawler video games Role-playing video games Dungeon crawler video games Camelot Software Planning games Sega Genesis games Shining (series) Video games developed in Japan Virtual Console games 1991 video games