Shining Force III Artbook

In the waning days of the Sega Saturn, Sega Japan released the revolutionary Shining Force III game series. In was an incredible RPG game series that had a vast amount of characters and landscapes on the 3 discs that it covered. This book, which was all color, covered all three Shining Force Scenarios as was as the Holy Hark and the Premium Disc. At the beginning of the book was a double sided foldout. On one side, it had various central characters from the three scenarios gathered around a campfire in the snow. The other side had the image of the cover. Chapter I had various images that was used on various covers and other promotional art. The last few images were some SD CG artwork and some from the Holy Ark. The second chapter had sketch and various head-screenshots of the characters. It had 59 playable characters and 25 NPC or enemy characters listed. The World Chapter was mostly text filled section. It did include screenshots of some of the locations and maps. It also listed the various weapons and items from the games. The fourth chapter was a short one. It had some information on the character's name, the seiyuus, the opening animation, and other notes. Chapter five covered some information and sketches from the Shining Force Holy Ark game. In addition, it had images of the earlier Shining Force games that had appeared on the Mega Drive, Game Gear, and the Saturn. Chapter six covered information on the very limited and rare Premium Disc. The last chapter had some more interviews and images of other older Shining Force merchandise. It was unfortunate that the 2nd and third (as well as the Premium Disc) games was never translated by Sega of America.

Product number was ISBN978-4-89425-654-5. It was published by SoftBank and released on 6/30/1999. UPC Bar Code - 9784797308167 and 1920076028007. It was priced at Y2800. The book was 248 pages in total length.

p6 Chapter I - Illustrations
p31 Chapter II - Characters
p122 Chapter III - World
p190 Chapter IV - Tea Break
p202 Chapter V - Shining Series
p218 Chapter VI - Premium Disc
p230 Chapter VII - CAMELOT
p307 Over the times


You can buy it at Amazon Japan.