Lunar: Silver Star Story is a role-playing game developed by Game Arts and Japan Art Media as a remake of 1992's Lunar: The Silver Star. Initially released on the Sega CD in 1995, the game has gone through several variations, beginning with enhanced video support in conjunction with the Saturn's MPEG graphics add-on in 1997, and later being ported to Sony's PlayStation in 1998.
The combat is menu based, which clearly display what you are doing in the battle with no unnecessary clutter. This combat system is easy to pick up yet will still require strategy to perfect. The story starts out simple enough, which I find is usually for the best and turns into an amazing love story. You play as Alex, a boy wants to be a Dragon Master like his hero. During his journey, he tries to save the world and more importantly the one he loves. And what is a great story without great characters?
There will be characters you will love like Alex and Luna. While others, you will love to hate like the Magic Emperor and the ever douche-y Nash. Unlike other RPGs that seem to only want to be dark Lunar is funny without being forced. Like how the Dragon Diamond Ramus wants is the White Dragon Quark’s solid waste. As well as random references to tootsies rolls. Now there are others, but I don’t want to spoil them for you (always buy soap).
The graphics are very beautiful for what is pixel based sprites along with the lovely animated scenes scattered throughout the game. It has fairly good audio, with the voice overs fitting the characters. As in how Nall sounds like a small animal speaking or how Nash sounds like the pompous jerk he is. The background music fits every situation, while the songs sound amazing.
The graphics are very beautiful for what is pixel based sprites along with the lovely animated scenes scattered throughout the game. It has fairly good audio, with the voice overs fitting the characters. As in how Nall sounds like a small animal speaking or how Nash sounds like the pompous jerk he is. The background music fits every situation, while the songs sound amazing.
If you want to save some coin you could easily enough go to PSN and download the PSP/PSVita remake for $15 although you will miss out on so of the in-jokes.
Now most importantly you will not feel it is a chore to play. Meaning most importantly, it makes you want to continue playing. Why else would you play a game? It has also spawned a sequel and many remakes/ports, which is lucky for you as buying the complete PSOne version would cost around $85. So, if you want to save some coin you could easily enough go to PSN and download the PSP/PSVita remake for $15 although you will miss out on some of the in-jokes. With all this said I cannot recommend this game highly enough, seriously everyone must play it.
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by Roger Wallace | |