Lunar Threads

Yes, compare the time between Lunar on Sega CD and Lunar DS, and the time between Lunar DS and now. Yikes!

Hi fellow Lunar fans. I joined back in 2005 when Dragon Song came out but only posted a few times. I now find myself missing old times. It was so exciting back in the SNES, Sega CD, and Playstation days. Getting new and exciting JRPGs every year. I find myself just wanting to play some good ol' 2D J...

I too emailed Somoga last week and got a similar reply.

I hope they don't even try to update the artwork or character sprites. The changes they made to Vay were pretty horrible. Compare these images:

Original:


SoMoGa version:

Alunissage wrote:You mean all three items, one of which was a map for the wrong game? Not sure what you mean by "so much stuff".

Ohhhh...I always wondered why Caldor's Althena shrine was on that map but not in the game.

A pre-Ramus could make sense. Just have him mention how his son doesn't have any interest in business and wants to be a farmer. Maybe the greed gene in the Ramus clan skips a generation or too.

urabob wrote:

Alunissage wrote:It would be much more crucial to rerelease the SegaCD ones. SSSC was already practically done with Legend.

Good point. Maybe some sort of Memorial Edition. I bet they could fit both PS1 and SEGA CD versions on one PS2 DVD. Heck, maybe even Game Gear games. That'd be nice!

I'd buy it!

Well, not really. But check this out:

Althena's work begins

Lufia. In terms of the love story and the gameplay, it's similar. There are no anime cutscenes, but it's the only game ever to have a similar emotional effect on me. It's also the only game ever that made me cry...

What a coincidence! I just noticed that too yesterday. It was worth a chuckle.

Hot damn that looks awesome!

And a game about the original four heroes...

Arutena. It's visible in one of the first screenshots in Kizyr's Legend guide, if you read katakana. Cool, thanks. And sorry about the misunderstanding. As for my clone theory, I wasn't serious that Luucia "totally has to be a clone" -- of course it's wild speculation. I've just seen that naming co...

Uh, Luna's name does double a vowel. The world and game is runa; Luna's name is ruuna (romanized Luhna in the manuals and artbooks). It's exactly the same change as between rushia and ruushia. Ohhh...well if you had just said Runa and Ruuna I would have know what you meant. I've never seen any of t...

Would you mind citing examples of exactly what you feel is different? His style changed mainly between TSS and EB, and I think someone else must've done some of the art in Legend, so besides those two I really don't see much different in style here. A bunch of little things that my eyes can see eas...

So clearly Luna must be a clone of the world of Lunar, since the same difference exists between their Japanes names. If you're going to take things so seriously, at least be careful. I said "double a vowel in the original name." So if there was another character in the game named Lunaa, then I woul...

BTW, does anyone else think the DS is going to tank like the Sega-CD did?

MiaOne wrote:It's not even out yet. So I don't feel right in judging it right now.

You can't judge it yet, but you've got to have some early thoughts. I like to speculate and share what we're excited or worried about based off of limited knowledge.

Kishi wrote:And yes, those designs are definitely Kubooka's work.

That's fantastic!

Is it possible that some other artist created the art shown in the scans, based off of Kubooka's designs? If not, it looks like Kubooka's style has changed.

Ahh, so there is one extra vowel in the Japanese name! That totally means this new Lucia is a clone. That's just how you name clones -- double a vowel from the original name. I think that's an actual First Rule of Cloning or something. I wonder if I'm the first to hypothesize this? Anyway, that's my...

Kishi wrote:My only disappointment is the apparent lack of a movement system in the battlefield. To me, that was one of the gameplay mechanics that really distinguished the series.

I totally agree!

Okay, obviously we haven't seen much yet, but what do you think of the new game at this early stage? I totally agree with something Kishi said in another thread: My only disappointment is the apparent lack of a movement system in the battlefield. To me, that was one of the gameplay mechanics that re...