Lunar Threads

It's...possible...that in all these years I have never noticed that the blue dragon doesn't have forelegs. Even though I have looked at the concept art and such.

It's a lot more complicated than just doing a one-to-one swap of TSS's and SSS's music tracks. There are a lot more tracks in SSS, and the BGM frequently changes during sprite scenes in ways that would sound weird with the TSS music. Example: In the scene after Tempest's anime intro, at some point t...

I think it's extremely likely that Fresca was intended to be playable (and use a whip) when TSS was in development but that that was cut for some reason, possibly to give Tempest a more personal reason to go into the cave when he wasn't supposed to. In one of the first magazine articles showing the ...

Note that the backgrounds in the battle scene have slight changes compared to the version of somoga even the sprite on the back of the black dragon varies slightly we will have to see if they correct the error of somoga with the blue dragon where they put four legs when this dragon only has two and...

Right. Kubooka is always credited for the character designs, but they've been drawn by lots of other people.

I wonder who did that art of the SSS and EB casts. It's new.

I have so many mixed feelings about this.

There are so many things that could be improved...

It's hard to say whether it's typical for her to become a baby when she reincarnates since it's made clear that her SSSC rebirth was not the norm, since she didn't intend to return to being a goddess. In Genesis it seems she must've turned herself into Lucia (Collins) at the age of a young girl, not...

Thanks for typing that up. I noticed they have names and distinct attacks but don't know when I'd get around to reviewing them carefully.

I'm OK with JP voices, though there are a couple of running-from-battle voice clips that I'd miss from EBC.

Awesome! I'll have to charge up my Android tablet for it. =)

I, uh, still need to play Shenmue. I think we even went to the trouble of getting a European version so we could import save data to Shenmue II? Does that sound right? Something about one of those two games being released on different consoles in NA so the save data thing didn't work here.

It's legit, and I'm looking forward to buying the game again on Android even though I haven't used my tablet in years, because I think I'm still playing the save file that I started when the iOS game first came out and I've felt bad that I'm getting so many years of use from it for one rather low co...

Yes! Please do! There are a few things about SSS that I want to get opinions on, if I can remember what they are...

I'd totally forgotten that. But it's been quite a while since I've seen that scene.

Regarding the mention of Jessica's drooling on her pillow in the post above yours, in Japanese it's Kyle saying that she falls out of bed. So kind of a similar vein.

I am not very familiar with Magic School but that might be a good place to start with working out how magic is performed. In the Vheen manga, it's explained that the Magic Race (Vile Tribe) can perform magic immediately, without needing spells, because they are somewhat made of magic -- I don't have...

HI SHIVA I TOTALLY NEED TO TALK WITH YOU SOMETIME when I'm using my indoor voice sorry

Seriously, though, I'm glad to see you and hope you've been doing well too!

Ugh, I still need to finish that in English. I didn't really feel that the the Black Star stuff intersected with the idea of Dyne fighting the insane Black Dragon, but there's a book in Damon's spire that says the Four Heroes arose to save Althena from a demigod, after her human form had grown weak....

It's the idea that the entire game isn't worth playing because one line was altered. It's an issue I have with fandom in general, not Lunar-specific, and really rubs me the wrong way. It particularly bothers me in this case because SoMoGa has done so much to put in things for longtime fans with the ...

They probably were concerned about using trademarked names. I remember TSS explicitly mentioned the trademark in the credits. Seriously, they've put so much work into this release and you're complaining about one word making you not want to play? This is the sort of thing that gives fans a bad name....