Lunar: Eternal Blue and Lunar: the Silver Star

     Lunar: The Silver Star and Lunar: Eternal Blue, both on the Sega-CD, were two of the best role-playing games brought out for any system, and the first is by far the best ever brought to the SegaCD. Lunar:TSS dealt with the quest of a young boy named Alex and his companions to save the music-loving goddess Althena from a megalomaniac who seeks to harness her power for his own evil ends. The story develops into an epic one, always with one more surprise around the corner, as well as Working Designs' trademark humor helping it along the way. It is also a tale of the love between Alex and his girlfriend Luna, and how he is able to call upon the strength of that love to earn the power of the guardian dragons of the realm and acheive his ultimate destiny - the rank of Dragonmaster, one of Althena's protectors.

     The main character is the reserved, but determined Alex of Burg. He is joined along the way by a number of companions, including: his girlfriend Luna; his portly friend Ramus; the wizards Mia and Nash; the priestess Jessica; and the self-assured swirdsman Kyle; and, as always, his smartass pet dragon, Nall.

     L:EB is set 1000 years later upon the same world, but it is a world where the people have lost their faith. Althena and the Heroes from the first game have long since disappeared, and the task of saving the world of Lunar - often, from itself - falls to a new generation of heroes. These include: the enigmatic servant of Althena, Lucia; the main hero, Hiro [no pun intended]; the drunkard priest, Ronfar; the gypsy dancer with a dark past, Jean; and, of course, his smartass pet dragon, Ruby.

     Both games are lengthy and enjoyable, and are excellent examples of the sort of high-quality games that end up only in Japan because the video game companies here in the states persist in the belief that such games do not sell over here...perhaps the phenomenal success of Final Fantasy VII and of the two Lunar games [L:TSS sold a copy for almost every SegaCD unit in existence at the time - in the U.S!] will change their minds...but only if game players tell them so...

     Lunar:TSS was going to be released on the Saturn as Lunar:The Silver Star Story in the form of a "remix": very similar at its core, but with numerous graphic and aural enhancements to a game which was already near-perfect in both; as well as some significant changes for the better in the storyline...The Saturn translation was cancelled due to a fallout between Working Designs and some brass...er, buttheads...up at SEGA...Both games have now been converted for the Playstation by Working Designs.

Working Designs HomePage The People who brought us Lunar, Lunar 2, Lunar: SSS, Albert Odyssey, Vay, Popful Mail, Cosmic Fantasy 2, Exile...need I go on?...

If these don't help, try RPGamer.com . They have info on all the Lunar games there, among other things...

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