[PSP] Lunar: Harmony of the Silver Star

I'm not too optimistic. Working Designs made the two games absolute gold given the dialogue choice :V Even if they re-use the same voice actors, the humor would probably be missing entirely.

Picture from magazine. Looks alright. I'd prefer a direct overhead view in-town as opposed to isometric. Looks... Odd :x

Even if they fuck with it much, I guarantee you that given the fan-base, a re-dub (to WD) and a text swap (with the PS1 version) probably wouldn't be ruled out.

GB --
As a fan of the original and its remake, I'd prefer Lunar sticks to 2D entirely.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by GB

Working Designs and their translations are a prickly issue with Soluzar, as I recall. His post was originally two sentences.

Heh. I noticed :V

Originally Posted by Soluzar

I have to wonder why you assume that any other company than Working Designs would fail at localising the game well. So it might be different. We all know that WD were pretty creative at rewriting the script of the games they work on, but... just because it's different it would have to be bad?

Personally I never finished the game. It looked interesting to me, and I was enjoying it up to a point, but I got distracted. As a result I'm interested in this new version, but I have no emotional ties to the old version. I felt the same about the Dragon Quest games which were remade for the DS. I know a few people who are horrified because things like spell names have been changed... but for me, approaching the game relatively fresh, having never completed a DQ game before, I'm enjoying the DS versions.

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In that case, why even play the remake at all? I mean, it's easy enough to get PS1 games running on a PSP. If you can run a version of the remake which has been hacked up with all these alterations, you can just as easily run the original game. It doesn't seem likely that the remake would be so exact that a one-to-one text swap and redub would be possible. It seems far more likely at least to me that they'll take the time to add in some new content, like they did when the game jumped platforms before.

If that did happen, you'd have this weird mishmash of old content with old text and voices, and new content with new text and voices. It wouldn't exactly be harmonious. I understand your love for the original version, although... I can't claim to share it. I just can't help but think that it's better to just stick to the original if you want Working Designs' unique touches, and play the new version for whatever take on it that game can offer.

It's not like the requirement for buying the new game is to hand over your old copy of the game to be incinerated or anything.

As GB put it, the original game was rather "meh" before WD fiddled with the dialogue. This hits a sour note with some folks, but I absolutely loved the banter and occasional low-brow gag.

I'll look in to it in hopes that they make Ghaleon as he was in the Sega CD version:

Spoiler:

Originally, Ghaleon turned evil because he didn't approve of what happened to Dragonmaster Dyne, a very, very close friend of his. He got twisted and saw it basically as the Goddess going "meh" and allowing him to die. He never knew that Dyne was still alive and well as Laike.

In the PSX version, Ghaleon was jealous of Dyne. I felt this was, well, not as interesting. Particularly because in #2, Ghaleon isn't a thorough bad guy. Then there's the whole thing that in the original, the dragons were all killed rather than captured.

Anyhow, Soluzar (spoiler-free paraphrasing here), the PSX and Sega CD games are top-notch to me, but the PSX took a liberty or two that I did not prefer and deviated a tad from the original.

Since this looks to base itself off the PSX version from what I saw (same cutscenes and pictures of sorts), it'll probably follow it just the same.

I'll look in to it also because, well, there might be more added content. A few more dungeons or mini-games of sorts.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

lol XSEED Expect ear-bleedingly bad voice acting.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Did they seriously type Seaga Saturn. Alert Infernal :V

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

From Xseed's past games I've played, I won't hold my breath on the "brilliant writing" department ='D

I was speaking idiomatically.

All dreams are real unless you dream they're not => As for all dreams they're if you do not look at dream, due to its substance; It is not.

=0 Awards await!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Yeah, SH3 was horrible from the get-go. I know historic accuracy isn't an aim of theirs, but I lolled when they showed Al Capone as a svelte young man, and Elliot Ness was all "hay sup Al-dude" at prison.

Shit characters, but the shit translation made it worse.

FELIPE NO

New voice actor for Ghaleon, I heard Nooooo...

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?