Playthrough of Playstation Lunar games?

[Sonic#]

I'm gauging what kind of interest people here would have in my recording my thoughts and inviting others to play along while replaying the Playstation Lunar games? I haven't played them in years, and so my memories of Lunar 2 are especially vague, and I'm curious to try them again.

I'm still not sure whether I have the time. I would probably set a schedule of playing for about an hour or so once every few days, to give busy people and me the time to play amid work or other obligations. Also, there's no telling whether my interest in completing the games would hold - I've stopped replays of Lunar 2 before because of its length - but if people here were interested, talking about it, and wanting to play along, I would be more likely to continue.

Finally, if we did replay, and people didn't have the Playstation games, they could of course play any of the remakes, at least of the first Lunar. Basically, I want to see how the game feels to me now that I'm in my late 20s, and also want to enthuse about the game with people who really appreciate it. A labor of love, maybe.

[Shiva Indis]

I'm interested, but curious about what medium you're considering. Posts here? Let's Play?

[Dark_Fairy]

I've been wanting to replay EBC, so I'm interested in this. How will we be attempting this? If it's let's plays, then I might have to wait for a while as my good computer is broke and I haven't had time to fix it. :c

[Alunissage]

I think he's suggesting that several of us replay the game more or less simultaneously, as if it had just been released, so we can share thoughts as we go with things being fresh in our minds. Which I'd be up for; I found some stuff I hadn't noticed the first time when I started replaying SSSC a few years ago, but I only got as far as the Crustacean in Vane before I stopped that playthrough.

And since there's also an iOS version, that might make it even easier to play through simultaneously.

[Sonic#]

Yes, I propose having a twice-weekly thread (or so) where we commit to going a certain stretch (from Burg to the Weird Woods, for example) and talk about it. What we notice, how the playthrough went, all that. If someone wants to do an accompanying Let's Play, that'd be fantastic, but I don't have the setup for that.

It'd be really cool to do different versions too. I'm going to stick with the Playstation one this time around (mainly for lack of iOS).

[WhiteKnightLeo]

I literally just replayed this about a month ago, still working on the epilogue!

[Alunissage]

I um still need to play most of SSH in English. I could probably do that at the same time, though it's different enough graphically, certainly, as well as translationwise.

A schedule of chunks of story would work for me. When I play these games for the not-first time I take insane notes. One thing I've been trying to do is list triggers, so as to be able to do a somewhat bare-bones walkthrough for people who don't want to be spoiled as well as those who are just stuck (remembering the TSS playthrough in which it took me a week to get to Saith because I forgot to try to sell the diamond to both shopkeepers in Burg) so you can see what will advance things and avoid until you're ready if that's your style. I was thinking that with a group playthrough I could post a list of the triggers for that week's chunk for people to check me on, stuff like that. Also, if the chunks are short enough it'd be perhaps possible to play through them on multiple versions to compare.

[Sonic#]

^ A list of triggers would be interesting, Alun. I'll probably pay attention more to dialogue and quippy writing, or perhaps the quality of storytelling. (Let's not pretend, I'll likely just ramble. ) And for people who have played the games freshly, this will be an opportunity to talk to these moments in particular - what you liked or didn't like, what was overlooked, what was funny, what was really cool.

Anyway, I'm going for it. I suggest we start on May 1st. I'll make the first post a day before then. Right now, I'll roll with a twice-weekly setup, with new topics every Tuesday and Saturday, and will change that as it makes sense for us. I'm counting about 20 sections in SSSC, so that will make for about ten weeks. I'm already wanting to play.

[Kizyr]

Hey, so, I got Lunar SSS for the PC working on this machine... I don't have time to play through, but maybe sometime later I can check on a few things. It's largely based on the SSS MPEG version, though there are a few gameplay differences (movement is quicker and controls take a little getting used to--I'll probably map it to a joypad later), and quality differences (it... ....uses MIDIs for all the music). KF

[DevNall]

Hey, so, I got Lunar SSS for the PC working on this machine... I don't have time to play through, but maybe sometime later I can check on a few things. It's largely based on the SSS MPEG version, though there are a few gameplay differences (movement is quicker and controls take a little getting used to--I'll probably map it to a joypad later), and quality differences (it... ....uses MIDIs for all the music). KF

The sprites and backgrounds are also at a higher resolution. Plus, it's buggy.