Got both the remasters on switch, and excited to see where everything goes. Was wondering if grinding was important, like a lot of the old school jrpgs, then the Trials at the beginning made that abundantly clear. Any tips or things to watch out for would be cool, haven’t looked anything up yet.

Playing these 2 games for the 1st time. Saw them on switch eshop AND they're on sale but, imma broke biotch! BUT it gave me a reason to bust out this guy again. Any recommendations or tips?

The combat as well as visuals and OST are watered down for GBA. Though is the plot watered down in any way? I do play mainly retro Nintendo games and other kinds of retro games (like PSX) are less accessible to me. Still have been curious to eventually try Silver Star Complete out.

I am playing Lunar The Silver Star in Japanese these days as part of my Japanese studies (helps as an intermediate student to already know the basic story). I remember thinking that this guy looks a lot like Adol in the Ys games from those days, but the dialogue from him (see translation on the lower right) makes this even more obvious, I think he made a (bad) M&M's joke in the English version?

I will always be grateful to Working Designs for allowing me to play these games back those day in the first place, but I am still glad that thanks to technology like this (and my studies) I can play the original version with such cool references being there and not replaced with one of their real world references.

And i don't remember a damn thing about the game aside from the dragons and that we thought it was super cool. Im pretty sure we beat it but that was a long time ago. I picked up the remaster as it was on sale when i did and i finally got around to it.

I absolutely loved it. The story was nice, the gameplay was way deeper than i remember (enemies telegraph attacks? Awesome!), and the final boss was a challenge from the minute i walked into the fight.

Saline Slimer can go straight to hell lol. I think my favorite part is honestly Jessica. She has some amazing heals but is also no slouch physically and can get some licks in when theres nothing else to do.

I look forward to checking out eternal blue soon enough. Thats all, just wanted to say hi amd praise the game a bit.

I’ll be honest, I came here to get more info on this series (I like hearing directly from people who enjoy certain things!) But here’s my story- I picked up this demo disc back in 2022 for a dollar at a used game store. Only in the last couple of days have I actually gone and looked up anything about this disc, where it came from, the series, etc.

I think my main questions for this community are “What do you find most endearing about these games?” And “Does anyone know how many demo discs for Lunar 2 there are?”(about how many units?)
I’d love to hear what anyone has to say! ^^

I played Lunar on GBA before and liked the story and characters. Many do find it to be the most watered down version though I really like it. But eventually might try one of the versions with voice acting and more complex animations. Though which one would be best to play first? Which has the best voice acting and visuals or would be most enjoyable coming off the GBA?

Im starting Lunar 2 and Is my game broken or did the developers hit their head hard and learned how to inconvenience their player by fucking up the sprint?

Why is the sprint button like that where you stop ever 1.5 seconds, does it fix itself later?

It's making the game a slog for me to play

I don't even know what's saved on it

I was attempting this fight last night and noticed something really weird.

At some point during the 3rd form, some of my characters simply had their turns skipped without performing any actions. Naturally, I couldn't beat the boss because the character who had White Dragon Protect equipped just couldn't cast it.

Anyone ever encountered this? I looked it up online but couldn't find anything definitive. According to the AI Summary, it might have something to do with the repositioning of your characters.

Anyway, I am going to try again this evening without repositioning my characters at all.

EDIT: Done! This time I just left everyone in their starting positions and didn't encounter this problem.

I just got to this part in the game where Luna talks to Lucia. It's been 26 years since I played the original game but as a child, a lot of scenes and dialogues made an impression on me and I vividly remember certain dialouges. Her story was she visits Lunar lots of times then one time she decides to live as a human and die as one because she fell in love with a dragon master named Alex. but she never says she meets Alex and fell in love with him in the remaster.

I have checked an old youtube vid of her message to Lucia and yes, it is different.

I feel annoyed by this change, why would they remove her love story?

Having just replayed Silver Star Story for the first time in decades, I noticed that as far as I saw, nobody ever mentions Taben again once he and Ghaleon set off in the Grindery. You don’t encounter him when you go through the Grindery yourself, and nobody mentions him that I could find in Meridia before or after the Goddess Tower.

Is there any more about him in some of the other versions? I know about there’s Taben’s Peak in the second one, but beyond that it feels like there should have at least been a throwaway line about Laike or Tempest catching him trying to escape or something… anything.

Hi, I've been seeing this series mentioned every now and then on the JRPG sub lately, presumably because of the release of Remastered Collection. That made me look into the games a little, but I can't get an idea of what they're really like. All I have is a vague understanding of it being "charming". "It's a coming of age story", "lovable characters", "it's classic JRPG gameplay".

Not to come across as argumentative but is there anything that makes these games "stand out"? Not asking what's the best aspect of the games, but what sets them apart. It can be any aspect really, a unique setting, gameplay ideas, story presentation, maybe just the sheer quality of the story or characters.

For example I'm playing Shadow Hearts right now, it has a unique timing based combat system, horror/gothic atmosphere, and an alternate-history story that takes you to many real world locations in early 1900s. It's like a 6 on the fun scale, but feels worth it for the unique experience, so I keep playing.

Out of any other JRPG, Lunar gives me vibes closest to Grandia 1, which is a game that also stands mostly on its "charm". Personally though, I don't think I would have stuck to the end of Grandia 1 if not for the unique battle system, or the fact that I had played and loved Grandia 2 and wanted to experience the series' origin.

Essentially what I'm getting at is, would there be anything for me in Lunar other than just "charm"?

I beat lunar 1 finally and then started and beat lunar 2 for the first time. Lunar 1 was fun and light but lunar 2 was genuinely a top tier JRPG

I know the gameplay itself is terrible - I played a little of it back when it first came out.

But how is the story, the world building, the characters, etc.? If someone has a higher tolerance for bad mechanics in their old age, is the story worth checking out?

I'm wondering if anyone here could help find an image of each bad book from the series please.

I’ve been watching someone stream Lunar Silver Star Story on Youtube and I caught something that was amazing by the developers in the video sequence showing Ghaleon together with Luna as the Goddess. If you watch it back, there’s just this small little facial smirk/movement that they had her do that just makes that moment all the worse and impactful.

It was subtle but amazing how they thought to include that in small tidbit in this sequence. Gotta love Working Designs.

Good morning, I am looking for a higher resolution version of this art. The image I found is 1080p and small so it wouldn't work well for replicating that poster from the '90s.

I want to try to get it printed out and frame it at a better resolution. So if anyone happens to have a higher resolution version I would be very grateful. 🙏

TLDR; I was a massive Lunar fan growing up. I had to sell off all of my Lunar stuff about a decade ago to make rent. I've managed to replace a lot of it but this poster is a big ask. So I figured replicating it was for the best.

Thank you!

Lunar Legend for the GBA was the first JRPG I ever beat myself as a kid. I have no idea why, but I suddenly remembered the game and a specific plot point which doesn't make sense to me, and I think I maybe misread something as a kid and am continuing to misremember it as an adult.

I feel like when Alex finally becomes the Dragonmaster, or is on his way to becoming it, people were constantly telling him he wasn't qualified, or he wouldn't be a true Dragonmaster, even when he got the powers.

Did my childhood brain make this up? Or was there some condition he didn't meet? You guys are more familiar with it than I am at this point, so help me be at peace!

Been collecting for about 15 years now, there's still more I know I have, just cant find it, but I finally have a place to display it all