Screen Test: Lunar PSP
Bob is not wrong. The world does not need a fourth version of Lunar: The Silver Star. The first version was a-okay, but inaccessible because no one owned a freaking Sega CD. The Playstation and Saturn remake was even keener. Victor Ireland and the rest of the Working Designs crew did a swell job of translating them both for an American audience. The Ubisoft Game Boy Advance version was less than ideal. You want to put Lunar out again, dump it onto the Playstation Network. Don’t pump out yet another PSP RPG. The system has plenty. Stop it.
That’s what I was thinking earlier today. Then I saw some screens of the remake. Got to admit, I’ve been charmed.
I like the isometric shift in perspective, an ideal way to modernize that fairly flat look of the original Lunar without resorting to a polygonal makeover. And I’ve got to say, it looks like every ounce of the doofy anime charm is preserved in the new, Contact-style art direction.
I haven’t played Lunar in nine years at this point. This remake, provided it modernizes the battle system as nicely as the presentation, will get me to play it again.
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John Constantine, our superhero, was raised by birds and then attended Penn State University. He is currently working on a novel about a fictional city that exists only in his mind. John has an astonishingly extensive knowledge of Scientology. Ultimately he would like to learn how to effectively use his brain. He continues to keep Wu-Tang's secret to himself. 
Derrick Sanskrit is a self-professed geek in a variety of fields including typography, graphic design, comic books, music and cartoons. As a professional hipster graphic designer, his recent clients have included Nerve, Pitchfork and MoCCA, among others.
Amber Ahlborn - artist, writer, gamer and DigiPen survivor, she maintains a day job as a graphic artist. By night Amber moonlights as a professional Metroid Fanatic and keeps a metal suit in the closet just in case. Has lived in the state of Washington and insists that it really doesn't rain as much as everyone says it does.
Nadia Oxford is a housekeeping robot who was refurbished into a warrior when the world's need for justice was great. Now that the galaxy is at peace (give or take a conflict here or there), she works as a freelance writer for various sites and magazines.
Based in Toronto, Nadia prizes the certificate from the Ministry of Health declaring her tick and rabies-free.
Bob Mackey is a grad student, writer, and cyborg, who uses the powerful girl-repelling nanomachines mad science grafted onto his body to allocate time towards interests of the nerd persuasion. He believes that complaining about things on the Internet is akin to the fine art of wine tasting, but with more spitting into buckets.
Joe Keiser has a programming degree from Johns Hopkins University, a tiny apartment in Brooklyn, and a fake toy guitar built in the hollowed-out shell of a real guitar. He writes about games and technology for a variety of outlets. One day he will stop doing this. The day after that, police will find his body under a collapsed pile of (formerly neatly alphabetized) collector's edition tchotchkes.
I have been searching hard for info on this, so thanks for the post, any ideas where I can get more information?
I have gotten a chance to play this game and was pretty good game, did not like it too much , buit then again im not into those type of game, but someone who is will find it very interesting and worth buying .
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Mike
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