Having originally played the SCD version back in 92, and later the Complete version on PS, I actually prefer the SCD version, but that could be 12 year old me having fallen in love with these characters at the perfect age to feel heavy nostalgia about those original hours I spent with them. Looking back as an adult, I see the games flaws, but I can't help myself, I still love it dearly. It also opened me up to the entire genre of JRPGs, an obsession I would maintain many years and games later.
I wish I could have had the experience you did with the SCD version! I never had a SCD growing up - I don't think I even knew it existed until many years later. I had friends who had Genesis, Saturn, and Dreamcast, maybe a friend with a Game Gear, but I never heard anything about any of the others. I was always a Nintendo kid - until Square jumped ship, and I joined them!
Surprising coincidence that I released this review yesterday, and the remaster was announced today! I'm looking forward to getting my hands on the remaster so I can play Eternal Blue, which I'd only ever rented before.
It was also a cooncidence that I've been playing and talking about Lunar games a few weeks or days before the announcement. That's why my bro told me to just watch the State of Play. I have to borrow a Lunar Legend cartridge from a cousin because he said that I was being "bias and unfair" with how I criticized the game on GBA. In the end, I've enjoyed it and finished it. Replaying the PS1 version and also trying to finish the PSP version (since I've been maintaining my PSP). Sadly I don't have the Sega CD version so my cousin told me to just use emulator before buying. And he has a point, cos the Sega CD version is a lot harder to play compare to the later remakes. Well, I've been playing different versions of Lunar Silver Star before the announcement because I don't want the series to be forgotten. But after the announcement, I'm happy that Game Arts and Gungho cared so much to release the Remastered Collection. Eternal Blue is actually my favorite. And by the way, Tempest is called Temujin or Temjin in the Japanese version. So I ended up giving him the nickname Khan when playing the Japanese version of Lunar. Because in History, Genghis Khan's birth name was Temujin before he became The Conqueror.
Excellent review! Unsure why the other commenters are so hung up calling out things that specifically bothered you and could potentially bother others. FWIW I played Lunar when I was 12 to 13 so it’s not something I tend to think about as much since the game has been with me for a long time. It’s good to hear folks talk about this as I like to reexamine my media from different angles. Can’t wait for Lunar 2!
Thanks for the comment! I think it's always worth reexamining things, because we all change as people throughout our lives. But overall, this is still a really good game! And I'm looking forward to finally being able to play Lunar 2 for more than a few hours once the new version comes out.
If I remember correctly bosses level up for every 5 or 10 levels that Alex levels (either that or they have a max level). Pretty sure it's mentioned in the strategy guid portion of the manual.
I’ll admit, I focused so heavily on getting soaps to watch only Alex, Kyle and Nash in the spa when I played this as a kid lol I think it was a bit unfair we never get bromides of them. 😤
I'm always very surprised when I think back on how progressives were in my child versus now, they've prudes. Yes, I know, nobody ever thinks they're a prude... instead they're modest, and by just the right amount.
Dude, like common, this type of worldview is why no one takes a chance with writing any more. Everything is so sanitized now. Also yeah Kyle is a bisexual.
To be fair, I don't mind sexual stuff in a game. It just bugs me that there's such a tonal shift between how the voiced characters act and how the rest of the script is written. If they'd picked one or the other, I'd be fine! (Oh, also don't sexualize under-age characters.) But thanks for your comment!
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Having originally played the SCD version back in 92, and later the Complete version on PS, I actually prefer the SCD version, but that could be 12 year old me having fallen in love with these characters at the perfect age to feel heavy nostalgia about those original hours I spent with them. Looking back as an adult, I see the games flaws, but I can't help myself, I still love it dearly. It also opened me up to the entire genre of JRPGs, an obsession I would maintain many years and games later.
I wish I could have had the experience you did with the SCD version! I never had a SCD growing up - I don't think I even knew it existed until many years later. I had friends who had Genesis, Saturn, and Dreamcast, maybe a friend with a Game Gear, but I never heard anything about any of the others. I was always a Nintendo kid - until Square jumped ship, and I joined them!
@ILoveThisBlank it honestly wasn't a great system, but I'm still glad I had one exclusively because of Lunar. Great vid, hope to see more.
@@Solsev Thank you!
Surprising coincidence that I released this review yesterday, and the remaster was announced today! I'm looking forward to getting my hands on the remaster so I can play Eternal Blue, which I'd only ever rented before.
It was also a cooncidence that I've been playing and talking about Lunar games a few weeks or days before the announcement. That's why my bro told me to just watch the State of Play.
I have to borrow a Lunar Legend cartridge from a cousin because he said that I was being "bias and unfair" with how I criticized the game on GBA. In the end, I've enjoyed it and finished it. Replaying the PS1 version and also trying to finish the PSP version (since I've been maintaining my PSP). Sadly I don't have the Sega CD version so my cousin told me to just use emulator before buying. And he has a point, cos the Sega CD version is a lot harder to play compare to the later remakes.
Well, I've been playing different versions of Lunar Silver Star before the announcement because I don't want the series to be forgotten. But after the announcement, I'm happy that Game Arts and Gungho cared so much to release the Remastered Collection.
Eternal Blue is actually my favorite.
And by the way, Tempest is called Temujin or Temjin in the Japanese version. So I ended up giving him the nickname Khan when playing the Japanese version of Lunar. Because in History, Genghis Khan's birth name was Temujin before he became The Conqueror.
Excellent review! Unsure why the other commenters are so hung up calling out things that specifically bothered you and could potentially bother others. FWIW I played Lunar when I was 12 to 13 so it’s not something I tend to think about as much since the game has been with me for a long time. It’s good to hear folks talk about this as I like to reexamine my media from different angles.
Can’t wait for Lunar 2!
Thanks for the comment! I think it's always worth reexamining things, because we all change as people throughout our lives. But overall, this is still a really good game! And I'm looking forward to finally being able to play Lunar 2 for more than a few hours once the new version comes out.
If I remember correctly bosses level up for every 5 or 10 levels that Alex levels (either that or they have a max level). Pretty sure it's mentioned in the strategy guid portion of the manual.
Yeah, you're right. I wish you could just power-level and steamroll endgame bosses, though - I always think it's fun to do that.
I’ll admit, I focused so heavily on getting soaps to watch only Alex, Kyle and Nash in the spa when I played this as a kid lol I think it was a bit unfair we never get bromides of them. 😤
Yeah! If developer aren't going to stop overly sexualizing female characters, at least overly sexualize the male characters, too! Haha.
I'm always very surprised when I think back on how progressives were in my child versus now, they've prudes. Yes, I know, nobody ever thinks they're a prude... instead they're modest, and by just the right amount.
Dude, like common, this type of worldview is why no one takes a chance with writing any more. Everything is so sanitized now. Also yeah Kyle is a bisexual.
@Guts-blood Everything is within the flow of Causality ...
To be fair, I don't mind sexual stuff in a game. It just bugs me that there's such a tonal shift between how the voiced characters act and how the rest of the script is written. If they'd picked one or the other, I'd be fine! (Oh, also don't sexualize under-age characters.) But thanks for your comment!