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LUNAR Remastered Collection launches April 18 (available both physically and digitally)

StereoVsn

Gold Member
Sega CD. The second game got a something of an enhanced re-release on the PS1 IIRC.

This remaster collection is the first two games.
Both games were released by Working Designs for PS1. They had excellent physical editions too.

Edit: And yeah, going to get physical as well. If Amazon sells out, Play-Asia or Videogamesplus are likely to have a copy I would think.
 
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kunonabi

Member
Is there anything special about these games or is it just your standard JRPG?
It has "light bugs" that that the devs were super proud of and are certainly in no way just a glorified fire fly. The game was also instrumental in proving that you can't tell stories without a CD.
 

Northeastmonk

Gold Member
Day fucking one on Switch
Absolutely. One of the finest JRPGs considering we never got Far East of Eden. I always preferred this over Arc the Lad. Working Designs best work if you ask me. Most JRPG enthusiasts probably owned or own both boxed PS1 versions. I use to have both in mint condition. Hopefully this port is good. I got to beta test the iOS version of SSSTouch. That was great except crashes were brutal at the time.
 

Nonehxc

Member
Damn, talk about a blast.

This game was pure touch on your feelings. Gorgeous, beautiful, superb animated cutscenes, and an story to make you 🥺

I still have my NTSC Lunar: Silver Star Story -Complete- posh release. 🥹
 

StereoVsn

Gold Member
For Lunar 1 they expanded the story and added some new villains, I really liked that part.

What I didn’t like were some of the other changes. Aside from the music, they got rid of random encounters. Sounds good but in practice it sucked because they were almost impossible to avoid. They’d all make a beeline for you and you’d end up having to clear every room whether you wanted to or not. It also IIRC had some super aggressive EXP scaling that basically guaranteed you’re always at whatever level they decided you should be at for that point in the game.
You can get patches to unWorking Design the games. Highly recommend it! 😅
 

DonkeyPunchJr

World’s Biggest Weeb
You can get patches to unWorking Design the games. Highly recommend it! 😅
For the Sega CD versions? Or the remakes?

I know WD cranked up the difficulty and lowered the XP for the US versions, and made it so you have to pay to save your game in Lunar 2 lol. Did they monkey with the remakes too?
 

graywolf323

Member
For the Sega CD versions? Or the remakes?

I know WD cranked up the difficulty and lowered the XP for the US versions, and made it so you have to pay to save your game in Lunar 2 lol. Did they monkey with the remakes too?
for both and they also fixed the bullshit difficulty in the PSX versions

I forget if fan patches/rom hacks are okay to link on here (as long as it’s just the patch/hack and not a rom of the game itself obviously)
 
I want to get this but only if it contains the Working Designs translation. As far as I know, it doesn't. It's mostly because I grew up on WD games and I love the translations. It saddens me that there is a vocal segment of gamers who act like Vic ruined these games. Vic Ireland is a legend and pretty much sacrificed his long-term prospects as a publisher by sticking with the Saturn and burning bridges with PSX over their hesitance to publish JRPGs on the platform.

I wish the game well though, Lunar is great.
 

Vyse

Gold Member
This hurts my heart. Also, makes me feel old as hell.

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Still have my copy!
 

StereoVsn

Gold Member
For the Sega CD versions? Or the remakes?

I know WD cranked up the difficulty and lowered the XP for the US versions, and made it so you have to pay to save your game in Lunar 2 lol. Did they monkey with the remakes too?
Yep, they messed with the remakes as well, lol. And I was indeed talking about PSX versions.
 
Hard pass without the working designs translation. Just won’t be the same without it. Shame they didn’t take up Vic on his offer to give it to them for next to nothing.
 
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