| Lunar: The Silver Star - Game Arts/Studio Alex/Working Designs - Released 12/--/93 |
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| Lunar: The Silver Star almost sold 1/1 with the Sega CD, demonstrating the power of digital audio, spoken voice, and anime movies, to say nothing of story and music that truely stands out from the crowd. The story tells of a world that shines in the light the Blue Star, where a boy named Alex takes his dreams of adventure to the road with only his friends Luna, Ramus and Nall. But Alex's adventure will become a quest of a thousand lifetimes when the evil Magic Emperor begins to execute his plans. The game sports an acclaimed translation, gameplay improvments and a surprisingly good voice cast by Working Designs. |
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| Lunar began the Sega CD with the The Silver Star and ended it with the sequel - Lunar: Eternal Blue. Lunar 2 centers around a boy named Hiro who is facinated by the days when the Goddess Althena last walked the Earth, and Lucia, a mysterious girl from the Blue Star. Lucia's arrival on Lunar heralds that a dark god who made the creation of Lunar neccesary is about to return to destroy what Althena has wrought. L:EB continues the tradition of excellent story and music complemented by 50 minutes of animation and over an hour of spoken dialogue. Working Designs presents another skilled translation, and again, the voice acting is above average. |
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Lunar: Silver Star Story is the long awaited revisit to the groundbreaking Sega CD title Lunar: The Silver Star. The game's graphics have been completely redrawn and the story is full of new surprises, big and small, for the L:TSS veteran. The music has also been redone, and the OVA quality full screen movies have only slight pixelation. Updates to the game's mechanics include visible enemies in dungeons, and WD's 110% effort on improvements, translation and dubbing are all given. Working Designs has put together an unheard of pack-in offer: this two disk game also comes with a Playstation video making of CD, an arranged soundtrack CD, a hardcover artbook/manual, and a cloth map. | |
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| The above-mentioned "Making of" Playstation video CD is made up of of Japanese and American staff and cast interviews. The following people are interviewed: Shigema Kei, scenario: Miaji Youichi, producer; Victor Ireland, WD President; Don Shirley, WD VP: Kubooka Toshiyuki, character design; Muhawa Shouji, Gonzo CEO; Iwadare Noboyuki, comopser; Isao Misoguchi, arranger; Tim Trezpacz, programmer; Bill Staeck, sound engineer; John Truitt, voice of Ghaleon; Ghonda Gibson, voice of Luna; Jackie Powers, voice of Nall; Ashley Angel, voice of Alex, and Jenny Stigle, our singer. Not only is it full of people and interesting information you never would've thought of, but it has outtakes and lots of visual plugs for Grandia, Eternal Blue, and both Lunar artbooks. Also a video test and Lords of Lunar, a Arkanoid-type game using the L:SSSC text portraits, can be accessed via codes. | ||
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The remixed sequel to Lunar: Silver Star Story retells the tale of Lucia's crash course in the nature of humanity alongside the valiant Hiro in 32 bits of redrawn graphics and full screen cinemas. Lunar 2: Eternal Blue closely resembles it's 32-bit counterpart in the visual department, but with more attention to detail. Unfortunately, the developers seem to have broken the bank with the Silver Star Story cinema sequences and had to cut back on Eternal Blue's movies. Plot and music-wise this game subsribes to an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" policy and overall is not as drastic of an overhaul as Silver Star Story. Working Designs rewrote very significant portions of their original script and made prudent revisions, and of course offer astonishing pack-ins. This time its a 5 CD set - 3 game CDs, one arranged soundtrack and the Making of, the hardback manual/artbook, a paper map, and a replica of Lucia's pendant. | |
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| A longer, more polished and documentary-like presentation than the Lunar: Silver Star Story making of disc, this one gives the English-speaking Lunar fanbase a look into the it's Japanese equivalent fanbase, as well as the facets of the original production process. It contains input from Kubooka Toshiyuki and Shigema Kei with regards to story and art, staff members of Vanguard and Gonzo, and Mizoguchi Hajime and Iwadare Noriyuki about the music. Working Designs staff and Lunar 2 cast members discuss their work and improvements they made in one section. Also included are outtakes, yet more plugs for a variety of Japan exclusive Lunar merchandice, and many people, both in Japan and the U.S. wearing Working Designs' Lunar 2 polos. | ||
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A re-release of Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete with fewer goodies and less foil and stamping on the packaging. The two game discs have fan art labels, the manual is of the usual staple-bound sort, and the soundtrack, Making of disc and map of the previous release are not included. The game itself is identical to the previous release. | |
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