THE "LUNAR" TOPIC

At least the GBA version had consistent hair colors! I remember Ramus had blue hair on his sprite but brown in videos for absolutely no good reason.

As for the actual series, to me it is just a two-trick pony with Silver Star Story and Eternal Blue. Everything else they've done has been trash and they just end up rereleasing/remaking the SSS/EB again (yes I am exaggerating)

Also Dragon Song is one of the worst RPGs I've ever played. It takes talent to make a game that bad.

Dragon Song was really bad. I really wonder how they could've made two amazing RPGs and then fuck up so badly.

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Hya ha ha. I suppose that's why they keep on remaking the first two Lunar games. No other installments they make turn out any good compared to those two, though I can't quite put my finger on why.

Oooh! I think I can! I'm going to blame 'innovation' since a lot of Dragon Song's 'features' make you want to throw the game on the street and stomp it until it's a bunch of broken silicon:

* Running costs HP. If you want to get anywhere in any reasonable amount of time, it'll cost you! You also stopped running if you hit 25% HP.

* You can only get experience or loot drops from battle! You have to choose if you are in EXP or Loot mode before a battle and if you need to grind for both it'll take you twice as long!

* Your main source of cash is getting loot from enemies and getting randomly generated fetch quest missions where you give a bunch of specific loot to somebody in town for cash. Here's the entire process so you can see it in it's entirety:
1) Go to delivery store, select one of four 'get me x about of y/z/a/b/c loots' missions
2) Grind the fuck out of enemies until they decide to drop x about of y/z/a/b/c loot
3) Go to town where the person you deliver to is
4) Find person to deliver to
5) Make pittance of money

* Your equipment could break. The chance of this is completely random and possible with all equipment and there is no way to fix broken equipment
6) Lose eqiupment, go back to 1 to get the cash to grind it back up again so you can rebuy your lost equipment

Later in the game you find a town with shops that sell loot so if you can get missions that want the loot that you can buy you can actually make some amount of money without wanting to kill yourself!

* Grinding for EXP is generally a bad idea since enemies level up with you! And this isn't FF8 where EXP and the way of getting more powerful are two different things. Also you will probably never notice this and end up grinding for more EXP making the enemies even tougher in the next area! (ffffffffffffuck you game)

* Only one character matters: The main. The fighter chick deals a bit less than one of the main's attacks, and the main gets three attacks in one. So now the main is the only person capable of dealing damage and the fighter chick might as well not do anything because...

* You can't choose who to target with regular attacks! You tell them to attack and the game will find the best way of wasting your attacks. Did the fighter chick already hit an enemy twice? Well the main will come in and finish off it's two remaining HP with his three hit combo! One enemy in particular is dangerous? Well tough shit! At least you can target magic except...

* (iirc) You never get a real caster! The party for most of the game is "main", "fighter chick", and "healer".

* The fights are so boring they put in a x6 speed up for battles. You will never not want to use this.

* Eventually you'll get in 'fuck you' land with the game. All you'll have available is one town without the delivery service so your only way to make money is to sell loot (which is worth next to nothing), expensive gear, and three/four dungeons in succession. You also lose both allies halfway through the chain of dungeons. Also if your equipment breaks or you run out of HP to run you are fucked.

* There is nothing at all interesting about the world. There is supposed to be racism in this world (beastmen pissing on humans) except the best they convey it is with a bunch of NPCs that don't like you. There is also an evil race that is supposed to be scary or something. They get internet money for trying at some points but at the end it all falls flat on its face.

* The characters are even less interesting. The main is less interesting than that "Luna"tic (hurrhurr) Alex in doing or saying nothing at all for most of the game besides "humans can be as strong as beastmen" and "*insert name of girlfriend that is pretty much not-Luna*". I don't even remember the other two except the fighter chick is probably not-racist because she's a beastman. There's also a beastman king who does nothing except briefly curse the main so he loses his three hit combo. What a jackass.

(we really need lists back)

Some of the music wasn't bad, but that is the only good thing I can remember about the game

Wow, looks like I posted junk :(
Aaanyway, I actually finished Dragon Song, it was crucial x,x
And the ending was flat. Very very flat.

Dragon Song was the best in the series.