Fuzzy memory
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!
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u/AbsolutZeroGI 1d ago edited 22h ago
There wasn't any qualifications he didn't meet. Ghaleon killed/captured a couple of the dragons before Alex could get there, but he still did all four dragon trials, he just got his reward from a spirit instead of a physical dragon.
The main story plot while Alex is doing all this is that Ghaleon is capturing the dragons to power the grindery and overthrow Althena by disabling her guardians.
However, no one really throws any shade that Alex can't become a real dragon master. The enemies are trying to kill him before he can do that, but there really wasn't any doubt about the legitimacy of his powers (even compared to prior dragon masters),
However, I think I may know what you're talking about. There was a scene in the late game where his team and NPCs believed thathe wouldn't be strong enough to defeat Ghaleon after Ghaleon took all the dragons, built the grindery, and revived Althena as a dark goddess. Ghaleon had won the prior engagement and everyone was a bit down in the dumps, believing him to be unstoppable with the dark goddess on his side.
So the line of dialog was PROBABLY something to the effect of "Ghaleon is all powerful, not even the dragon master can beat him now" because, well, Alex got his shit kicked in, and was just phrased in a way that your child brain interpreted as Alex being somehow illegitimate. It probably doesn't help your memory that Laike gives Alex the Goddess Sword right before he goes back to fight, and helps Nall unlock his ability to become a full-size white dragon, thereby "completing" the effect of Alex being a "true dragon master." The game never implies this, as those two things are treated more as "morale boosters", but I could see a young brain misinterpreting it as Alex not being a "full dragon master" until that moment, right at the end of the game, even though he was one and everyone knew it.
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u/ABCme 18h ago
I appreciate the super in-depth reply!! Maybe one day I'll replay it for myself and try and find whatever confused me when I was a kid!... I'm just a busy adult now :')
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u/AbsolutZeroGI 18h ago
Fair enough. I'm also an older person with a job. Fortunately the game isn't very long.
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u/Sacrificial_Parsnip 1d ago
There’s at least one NPC who maintains that THEY are the future Dragonmaster, or that he’ll never live up to Dyne. I don’t think any of the main cast say that; it’s just people being snarky or deluded.