Lunar Threads

Alunissage wrote: OK, that gives a bit more context to what you're thinking of. I still generally disagree with you, but at least I know where you're coming from now. Sorry I didn't put in the context. Although this has taught me that from now on whenever I do a critique of a game in any way I'll i...

Alunissage wrote: I had to skim a lot of this because this much text gives me a headache. But here's a quick analysis of your analysis: Sorry, I never imagined that the paper would get this long. When I started I figured it'd be 1/3 or at most half this length. Its also something I imagined some Lu...

Story: *The dialogue is superb with each character feeling like a person and towns being genuinely interesting to explore for laughs (the jokes about contemporary life aren't really bad as long as they don't dominate) and for party character interaction with townspeople that helps develop them and f...

Art: *For the time the graphics were decidedly retro but that fit the game quite well and helped give some continuity between the Sega CD games and this one. However, if the game was remade today the graphics are really dated and would need upgrading but I dislike how SSH did it. A serious effort to...

Sonic# wrote: When I say that I question whether any game can be escapist, I mean the sort of escapism that is commonly taken (even by you in your first post) as irrelevance to the concerns of an outside world. I don't think that good stories are ever irrelevant, though it can sometimes take effort...

Sonic# wrote: By Aesops, I think you mean morals or themes? I ask that because I've never seen "aesop" used as a simple noun, and wonder where that came from. Sorry I am using the Tropes use of the word. Such as here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnAesop They even have a bre...

OK I will begin by saying I am NOT trying to start something incredibly controversial here or begin a flame war of any kind. I mainly have a question about the Lunar series' Aesops and then my response to them. I have just never discovered the Lunar Threads until very recently so I never got to ask ...

Lathaine wrote: Game Arts CEO was very angry at Vic for saying anything about Lunar 3's development since they wanted to be secretive about the project. Shiva Indis wrote: Really? Never heard that before. Yeah Vic shared it a while back on Neogaf. The leak about Lunar 3 after EBC came out was not s...

I have been thinking lately about what Gung Ho is trying to do with the Lunar series. This is just some thoughts and observations I've been having about any future releases for the series. First, Shigema seems to be on board for a Lunar 0 or Lunar 3 I have gathered from his blog posts and interviews...

Well, I can answer the stuff about Gaijinworks as I've been doing some research. They have been pretty busy lately according to Vic and it does show with their releases. So far the have released Alundra, Arc 1, Arc 2, Arc Arena, and Arc 3 for PSN by partnering with Monkeypaw. They plan to release th...