Lunar: Harmony of the Silver Star

[Jogurt the Yogurt]

Apparently this game might be getting a North American release courtesy of XSEED! It's a remake of the Sega CD version of Lunar: The Silver Star. The sprites have all been redrawn, which is weird to get used to, but they look good.

[Link (Joystiq)]

[enigmaopoeia]

I've been eyeing that game. Though it's not high on my priority list.

The only Lunar game I played was Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete. So is it necessary for me to also play Lunar: The Silver Star and Lunar Legend? I personally don't care for the companies that translated it [Working Designs VS. Ubisoft], I just want to know if I should just skip those two and just wait for this game.

[Jogurt the Yogurt]

The Silver Star is a bit different, but IMO if you've already played SSSC then you don't really need to play the others. Not that it's a whole lot better than the others... just that the games are all pretty similar, so unless you're a gigantic Lunar fan, you're set with one of them.

[enigmaopoeia]

Good! Then I'll just see what the PSP version brings new to the first Lunar title. Since I'm not that big a Lunar fan, but it was enjoyable.

I might try to play those games when it's a slow gaming season for me. Especially since I really want to play Eternal Blue one of these days.

[digiki]

Have you played Dragon Song much yet?

[enigmaopoeia]

If this was directed toward me, I have played a little bit of it. I only seen how battles are like and unfortunately, you cannot control what monsters you would like to attack. There is also where you can have conversations between the characters in the overworld that reminds me of the Tales series.

If pdRydia is online, she is the best person to ask since she lend me her game.

[digiki]

Originally Posted by enigmaopoeia

you cannot control what monsters you would like to attack.

Seriously? So how does it work, monsters will be targeted in order of position or what?

Edit: And yeah I was asking you.

[Mickeymac]

I'll keep an eye out for it. Silver Story was the one where you could hit somebody with a frying pan, right? Not enough games let you do that, you know?

[Mickeymac]

Okay, after playing Silver Star, I'm totally getting this!That game was A-MA-Zing!

[pdRydia]

Originally Posted by digiki

Seriously? So how does it work, monsters will be targeted in order of position or what?

Randomly, although it seems like they intentionally attack monsters in such a way as to leave each monster alive as long as possible, before reluctantly killing off the least-threatening monster when they must kill something.

[Mickeymac]

Originally Posted by pdRydia

Randomly, although it seems like they intentionally attack monsters in such a way as to leave each monster alive as long as possible, before reluctantly killing off the least-threatening monster when they must kill something.

I thought you could select which monster you wanted to attack by choosing the attack order. Granted they'll attack anyone who gets close to them, but at least you can target who you want to go towards.

[pdRydia]

Originally Posted by Mickeymac

I thought you could select which monster you wanted to attack by choosing the attack order. Granted they'll attack anyone who gets close to them, but at least you can target who you want to go towards.

I'm talking about Lunar: Dragon Song...

[Mickeymac]

Originally Posted by pdRydia

I'm talking about Lunar: Dragon Song...

Oh, I didn't see that part.(damn it, Digiki, you couldn't have used the quote button?!)

[Jogurt the Yogurt]

The demo for this is out on PSN now. It's very short (obviously). You can't save during the demo, but you can save clear data after the demo is complete. The demo promises that doing so will unlock exclusive features in the full retail version of the game! So I completed the demo this afternoon.

Well... it's good, because it's Silver Star. But they did change quite a bit about the game (well, compared to the PS1 version anyway... but the Saturn version, on which this is based, is supposed to be the same as the PS1 one). There's a lot of the classic Lunar art, which is good. They changed the voice acting! Nall and Quark are both terrible now. Well, Nall isn't terrible, but he's not as good/cute as he was in past versions of the game. Alas. There's also no world map! Well, barely. It has one of those "click here to go here" maps that have become quite fashionable lately. The music is functional but it doesn't sound as good—compression, maybe? Otherwise, it's basically a port of the PS1/Saturn game, with all of the plot and mechanics changes of that game.

Mick, have you tried this? If you liked Chrono Trigger, I think you'd like this one. Great "classic RPG" plot and characters and a nice battle system that involves characters moving around to meet their enemies. Enemies appear on the map and can usually be avoided.

[Mickeymac]

Originally Posted by Jogurt the Yogurt

The demo for this is out on PSN now. It's very short (obviously). You can't save during the demo, but you can save clear data after the demo is complete. The demo promises that doing so will unlock exclusive features in the full retail version of the game! So I completed the demo this afternoon.

Well... it's good, because it's Silver Star. But they did change quite a bit about the game (well, compared to the PS1 version anyway... but the Saturn version, on which this is based, is supposed to be the same as the PS1 one). There's a lot of the classic Lunar art, which is good. They changed the voice acting! Nall and Quark are both terrible now. Well, Nall isn't terrible, but he's not as good/cute as he was in past versions of the game. Alas. There's also no world map! Well, barely. It has one of those "click here to go here" maps that have become quite fashionable lately. The music is functional but it doesn't sound as good—compression, maybe? Otherwise, it's basically a port of the PS1/Saturn game, with all of the plot and mechanics changes of that game.

Mick, have you tried this? If you liked Chrono Trigger, I think you'd like this one. Great "classic RPG" plot and characters and a nice battle system that involves characters moving around to meet their enemies. Enemies appear on the map and can usually be avoided.

Not yet. I was planning on getting to it after I finished Chrono Trigger and some other demo I got...but it's been taking a lot longer than I had hoped, and I've got a lot of papers and projects, as well as finals and Mid-terms I gotta study for, so it's gonna be a while before I ever have time for it.

However, I can't wait until I finally get to it! I played a little of the Sega CD version, and I loved it! I'm gonna miss the overworld stuff, though. I really liked it, even though I did tend to get lost a lot(the towers that you could go heal yourself at made it a little easier, though). It was worth it just for the battles, which were short and fun, and required a good strategy if you wanted to keep them as short as possible(which I always do). I just hope they left all the humor and charm in-tact. I'm actually looking forward to the bad voice acting. The game already kinda reminded me of the poorly dubbed anime I used to watch as a kid, so bad voice acting would just complete the experience.