Shining Soul

 Game Boy Advance
Metascore
58

Mixed or average reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 13
  3. Negative: 4 out of 13
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  1. Eurogamer
    40
    Hardcore? Don't be fooled, chaps. Maybe, somewhere, deep within the bowels of the hardcore gamer there's a desire to play endless, sprawling, repetitive games which offer no motivation to continue, but really, if you're looking for a hardcore RPG status symbol, then pick up Breath of Fire II or Golden Sun - or buy Zelda, because that's a real-time RPG done right.
  2. Gamestyle
    40
    Shining Soul is too shallow to appeal to the turn-based RPG crowd and the combat is too tedious to appeal to action RPG fans, or indeed anyone not wanting to inflict a repetitive strain injury upon themselves.
  3. Deeko
    40
    A game that reeks of potential, but winds up being extraordinarily dull and uninventive. The game mechanics, while solid, are boring and overly simplistic, the graphics are old, and the sound is simply dated and awful.
  5. Cheat Code Central
    40
    While it does the multi-player thing better than most games, the single-player mode is nothing more than a single-player version of the multi-player mode. There's no story, no strategy and really nothing that you could call innovative.
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Awards & Rankings

84
#84 Best Game Boy Advance Game of 2003
40
#40 Most Discussed Game Boy Advance Game of 2003
39
#39 Most Shared Game Boy Advance Game of 2003

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User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Yojimbo2015
    May 7, 2023
    6
    Fantasy RPG that chooses arcade-style combat over the more traditional turn-based affair. This makes it more like Gauntlet with nobs on andFantasy RPG that chooses arcade-style combat over the more traditional turn-based affair. This makes it more like Gauntlet with nobs on and the fact that you can return to the point where you were last killed at will makes it all a bit of a button-bashing level-grind. Not a bad arcade adventure but not in the same league as Final Fantasy and Zelda.… Full Review »
  2. JimBob
    Dec 14, 2003
    10
    Awesome in every way. Great graphics. Fun gameplay and the best mutiplayer I've seen before Rebel strike came out.
  3. AaronF.
    Dec 12, 2003
    5
    Game sucks..I can't even frigging save.
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