No crashes
Tue Apr 18 2023 Reviewer 6On iPhone 7 Plus. Excellent game, excellent port. I had never played the original, but I really like this so far. Fair amount of replay value, definitley lots to do here! I am mostly through my first play through, and I might try another run so that I can get some cool items I missed. turnbased combat that isnt stat-roll, items and levelling, classic jrpg from my limited experience.
Devs: Alex has reached Level 50 but I didnt get an achievement. Maybe the whole party has to get there. Control pad controls are a tad clunky at times, nothing game ruining. Might be an improvement to be able to push villagers that are in motion, or when the player walks into a wall for motion to stop, rather than continue in an open direction. There have been a few occasions where i would go to purchase or talk to an NPC and my character would go left or right as i had held the up direction too long, but did not stop motion as expected. Hopefully that makes sense. Thanks for this awesome game!
Edit 4 years later: Please do Eternal Blue
Lunar
Mon Jan 16 2023 hamguyThis is my all time favorite rpg and glad to see it here. Everything so far is great, I love the fact I can pause the game at any moment and resume again, And is like the ps1 version. — Negatives -Nash’s lightning is black instead of yellow -I can glaringly tell differences in voice acting I personally dislike it but there is nothing you can do. -Some items are renamed like “healing nuts” are now “healing fruit”, some dialogue is different from original. It takes away from the experience just makes you stop and think why. -The game is super easy, I’m clearing out entire dungeons without much damage. It’s not very challenging as I remember on the ps1. The first boss used to be very difficult I had to grind a lot to beat, but on this port I beat it first try. It really feels as if the difficulty was nerfed. Harder games are frustrating but give you a sense of achievement and satisfaction after you accomplish your goal, I don’t feel that so far. Other than that game is a must play if you are a fan of Lunar SSS or new to the game.
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I would like the developers to add a setting in the options to pause the notification after you defeat a monster or level up, I would like to see the progress you make, it goes by too quickly to notice.
Definitive version of Lunar 1 remake canon
Mon Jul 01 2024 ThatGuyWithTheZakuIII've played the SEGA CD, PS1, PSP version of Lunar Silver Star, and discounting the SEGA CD version which is equal if only cause of how different it is from every remake, this port (Lunar SSST) is the definitive version of the remake canon. Graphics, FMV, and music are taken from the Saturn and Windows 9x version that were never officially released in the US, and are improved over the PS1 release. Working Designs' iconic PS1 dub is sadly not available due to legal reasons, but there is a mod that restores the WD dub to SSST, though it only works on MacOS. The translation is mostly taken from the WD PS1 version, so the charming dialogue and jokes are mostly intact. There's also an option to use the PSP music (good), the PSP dub (bad), and the Japanese voice actors (good). You can select the Japanese Saturn or English PS1 enemy stats, increase or decrease EXP/silver drops, etc... Did I mention it didn't crash at all? Overall, a must buy for a Lunar fan, especially on a Mac. SoMoGa, I hope you release Lunar 2 at some point.
Fantastic update!
Tue Jun 18 2024 elbo21I played this game when it first dropped on the App Store, some 10 or so years ago. I had loved the game ever since I played it in the 90’s on my PS, so I was thrilled to get the chance to play it again. On the first port of this, I loved it, flaws and all. SoMoGa did a great job back then no matter what anyone says! But I had no idea they were still supporting this game and had no idea about the huge update they did a year ago until I went to gift this to a friend for his birthday. I’m so excited that my friend gets to play this updated version and I can’t wait to experience Lunar through his eyes. Thank you, SoMoGa! You made me very happy! (And if you happen to be working on a port of Eternal Blue, I’ll be the first to buy it! 😉).
Awful port - now improved
Sat Nov 24 2018 TejjiiThis is a 5-star game in my opinion but the crashes are frequent and worst of all, you can easily lose your save. I wanted to replay this game badly enough that I got in the habit of saving after every battle and just dealing with the crashing. Unfortunately, when it crashed in the Meribian sewers, my save disappeared also. If the developers ever get around to updating the game I will give it another shot but I don't think they ever will.
**Review Update**
App was updated. Still crashes.
**2018 update**
Updates to the app have continued steadily and so I gave the app a third try. It mostly works now. It is not a perfect port, avoiding enemies is nearly impossible due to the controls, combat animations are glitchy, it does still crash, and once the menu button just straight up stopped working. Thankfully, the menu button issue went away and hasn't returned and the crashes are rare enough that I've made it about halfway through the game without major issues like losing a save.
Remember that it’s a mobile game port of a console game.
Fri Sep 11 2020 Norseman4269Like most here, I’m disappointed it doesn’t have the original voice actors and music. Obviously I’d be happier if this were a port for a console as well, but being that it’s a mobile game I’m not going to complain about controls, as what else would you expect? However the game is still enjoyable and feeds the nostalgia adequately. I played both the original on Sega CD and got the deluxe version on PS1 when it was rereleased. The later was definitely the best version of the game. Unfortunately back around 2004 I sold it, I needed mo money of course and because it was a fully intact deluxe edition with all its extras...I was able to get top dollar. Hopefully I can find a port of that version somewhere, but until that happens, this will do fine. Hasn’t been any updates for a long time and don’t think there will be any in the future, however I haven’t had any issues with the app crashing or anything like that.
Crashes make game unplayable
Sun Feb 04 2018 McSpittAccording to the version history, the last update supposedly fixed a bug that caused the game to crash after battles (that was 3 months prior to this review). Having spent $15 on this game I find it completely unplayable because it often crashes when you press the menu button (which you HAVE TO press if you hope to save it). Because you have to manually save the game (which I take time to do after each battle in case the menu button forces a crash, ugh) it can be impossible to save your data.
To compound the problem, I noticed during one play-through that the menu button didn’t work at all! I tried to moving into new areas, fighting a couple of battles, anything I could think of in hopes of not losing my progress. No bueno.
The game loses all momentum and fun as a result. I will certainly update my score when this problem is fixed because I consider the Lunar series to be the best RPG series I’ve ever played. Unfortunately this port still needs a little polish.
Good but the game needs improvements
Sat Jun 30 2018 {{Kairo}}So far I’ve played through till one would get to meribia, one thing that I’ve noticed that needs improvement is when your in battle and in full screen mode there is no back tracking once you’ve made an action choice, also then using skills that are area of effect one can only see that the enemy your choosing is effected by the skill and nothing else this makes using area of effect skills annoying. All hitting skills automatically except themselves as a decided action without your consent, we as the player should decide to except the action, because if your final character has an all hitting skill and you didn’t mean to select it your stuck with that action and that’s a bummer, complete player control is a must. Other then the three things I mentioned this game is a decent port to the app game scene. I’d love it if Lunar 2 Eternal Blue would be released as well. The more the merrier 😁
Not the same…
Thu Oct 28 2021 Wolf CenturionI loved this game when I was a kid, the excitement I felt when I saw it on the App Store, and for $6.99, was very short lived once I started playing. The game mechanics and story so far seem pretty much the same but the “remaster” also meant “recasting and rewrite script” because NONE of the voice actors/actresses are the same. That was a bummer, but honestly I can get past that (especially Nall, new voice is waaaay less annoying) but then I noticed the lyrics to a LOT of the songs had changed but the music was the same, and that’s the reason it lost a star. If you’ve never played it before then I highly recommend getting it. Anyone that wants to relive the adventure of their youth however, it’s gonna throw you a swerve or two and you’re going to notice right out the gate.
A bit disappointed
Wed Mar 13 2019 IokolI played the original version before & was excited to see this game on here. After paid the application to start playing I noticed that the CG scenes as the game starts is not clear where it should be. For $7 you would think the people who modified the original game to be played into iPad compatible would do a better job. Maybe on the iPhone the CG scenes may have been more clear if not clear & focused. The actual game play itself is clear but the movements is a bit inconvenient. Without d-pad playing you pretty much drag your character around or point where they go. It’s not exactly exercise in precision for the movements. I noticed on the screen there is two medium size semi transparent circles on the side of the screen as meant to access the menu screen & something else. It would be better if those two medium circles can be labels instead of taking part of the screen of the game itself. It’s weird.
