Shining Valour is an attempt at making a game similar to the classic Sega RPG series Shining Force. The game is viewed top-down, and you wander around the world on various quests (inevitably ones that involve saving the world from [enter bad guy here] who has risen up yet again). The wanderings are punctuated by turn-based battles in which your force fights a group of bad guys, sort of like a game of chess.