LUNAR LUNAR THE SILVER STAR GAMES
Lunar: The Silver Star (ルナ ~ サ シルバースター?) is a role-playing game developed by Game Arts and Studio Alex for Sega CD. originally released in Japan on June 16, 1992 was acclaimed by critics, the game was translated and released in English by Working Designs next year. Designed as a "different kind of RPG, Lunar: The Silver Star was using to achieve extremely CD quality audio, video playback video, and voice acting to tell a fantastic story in a magical world. the number of sales of the title in Japan was great, the game sold many copies as the Sega CD itself, and achievement being the second best selling title of the sega cd. the first game in the series of Lunar was the standard for the titles that would follow him, and was followed by its direct sequel, Lunar: Eternal Blue in 1994.
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The game was focused on Alex, a boy living in a small town, dreams of becoming a great hero like his idol, the Dragonmaster Dyne, who ventured in the past, Alex and Friends venture into the world will find yourself the necessary power and become the new Dragonmaster, and save the world in the process.
Since its original release, three out remakes have improved for several systems: Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete in 1996, Lunar Legend in 2002, and Lunar: Silver Star Harmony in 2009.
GAME SYSTEM ...
Lunar: The Silver Star is a traditional RPG with a top view, the game features characters and scenarios in 2 dimensions. The player travels through villages, fields, and wrapped in a story with objectives as it progresses, ay much interaction with NPCs that expands the details in the main story, making use of the Sega CD's and their capabilities in hardware video and audio accompany the game's narrative, including animated sequences and a soudtrack with a very high sound quality. Players record their progress on the Sega CD RAM, or buy a sega genesis special cartridge to store your data.
games included system 2D graphics of high quality 
exploration in caves, castles, laboratories, marshes and forests were the agenda
When traveling the world, players were on battlefields with monsters which were to be destroyed to make progress, the battles used a shift system, players and enemies fought according to their level speed. The player had commands that control the character. on the battlefield was chosen to take action, attacking the enemy, hiding in a corner, staying without doing anything, heal your teammates, or use a spell or ability. Nall was a supporting character that was not manageable, analyzed the enemies at the start of the battle, the characters were weapons, armor and accessories during the game raised his power to gain experience level, causing more Llosa damage to opponents in battle and elebavan his stamina. if you were removed you could start over from where the player keep his progress.
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2D battles were of high quality with many enemies and spells 
The design of the monsters was very good HISTORY ...
The game comes to life in the world of Lunar, a habitable planet orbiting the star gigantisima Blue, forming an image which is parallel to the earth and the moon. Thousands of years ago the Blue Star suffered a catastrophe. the power of the Goddess Althena took people to the world of Lunar, and protected under the oath of 4 dragons in that world peace would reign. Oh who can use the power of dragons and serve the goddess, known as "Dragonmaster" and the most recent was a man named Dyne, a legendary heroes that ended with evil and protected the Goddess Althena. The stories surrounding Dyne are fascinating to Alex, who aspires to be a Dragonmaster.
The script of Lunar: The Silver Star was written by novelist Kei Shigema, and involves many worlds of fantasy and magic, mixed with folklore and legend, the game begins in the mountain town of Burg, where Alex frequently visits the memorial of their hero, Dyne, Ramus your friend asks you to venture out of an old dragon cave where they found a large diamond. Nall and Luna with them deep into the cave where they meet Quark an old Dragon that Alex sees the potential and encouraged him to look for other Dragons and pass the tests so that he is the new Dragonmaster, Protector of the Goddess Althena, and the world. Quark show interest in Moon, saying his face looked very familiar. Quark getting Diamond, Ramus can not sell Burg, and must travel to the great city of trade Meribia to collect their fortune. Saith the group arrives at a small port south, where they meet Nash and Luna left the group to stay with Alex's family.
All characters lived unimaginable adventures crossing the ocean, Alex, Nall, and Ramus Meribia reach where they meet one of the 4 legendary heroes, Mel. By selling the diamond are tricked by a thief who was hiding in the sewers of the city. After enters and leaves the group to recover Ramus to meet its new store instead of the diamond obtained. Alex and Nash start to the magic city of Vane, a floating island that orbits Althena tower, there in Vane know Mia, daughter of the leader of Vane and Nash's girlfriend, who tells everything to Ghaleon, premier society of wizards and old friend of Dragonmaster Dyne. intrigued by the adventure of Alex, Ghaleon sends him on a mission to find a new Dragonmaster that had appeared in a fishing village. Alex knows there Jessica, daughter of Mel master and apprentice priestess in the temple of Althena, who helps them find to Dragonmaster results is an impostor, back in Vane, learns of a plot where the real leader was trapped and a sorceress impostor posing as her, discovering the truth with the help of Mia and the mirror of Althena discover that the race of demons is up to something. Ghaleon accompanies Alex back to his home and to see where Quark will discuss the future of Alex, Ghaleon goes bad and kills Quark. while xenobiotics in Burg kidnaps Luna and all the villagers. Alex and Nall Meribia back to where the demons attacked and Mel became the master stone. joining Jessica, Alex is going to Vane, where Nash and Mia join in the search for Luna. Becoming
Dragonmaster, save and destroy Luna to Ghaleon are the goals of Alex and everyone will know where Kyle cation, Jessica's boyfriend, who also joins the group. after traveling to the town of inventors, the group gets a balloon to go to the volcano where is the Red Dragon, who is already killed by Ghaleon before they arrive. Red Dragon q leaves the power to get Alex, and then the group left for the Blue Dragon Cave is in a hidden waterfall behind a musical people. again, the Dragon had already been killed before the group arrived, getting the power to find that Nash is a faithful servant of Ghaleon and the whole time he was a spy, the group must now travel to the cave of the black Dragon for the review Eventually, the black Dragon Cave is at the border, where the magic of Althena not arrive. with the power end, Alex must travel to the tower of the Goddess Althena and face the final test, which eventually becomes Dragonmaster, Nall knows he is the new White Dragon and Luna is the reincarnation of the Goddess Althena.
Dragons, diamonds and seasoned machines LUNAR history Taben the inventor who works for Ghaleon consruye a mobile fortress, the Grindery, Laika before being turned to stone by xenobiotics reveals that he is the former Dragonmaster Dyne Alex now must destroy Ghaleon and save the world and Luna. Root in the Grindery, the group arrives at a sanctuary where Moon is possessed by evil, Ghaleon reveals he is a vile demon of race and fight with Alex just before destroying it Luna plays his harp and makes it regains her memory and her person and together restore peace and tranquility on the moon.
many of the sets and costumes of Lunar: The Silver Star are inspired in Russia and in medieval Europe.
Incredible animation sequences narrated the story you CHARACTERS ...
The characters of Lunar: The Silver Star are diseñadods the manga and anime artist Toshiyuki Kubooka. The main characters are Alex, a 15 year old boy who dreams of being like his hero, Dyne, Alex is accompanied by Nall, a small winged cat, Luna, the girl adopted since small for the family of Alex and has skills in singing, Ramus, son of the village mayor dreams of becoming a millionaire. Alex's adventure begins when they go in search of the cave Diamana white dragon. Alex knows the magician elite Nash and Mia, the premier junior Vane floating island, the bandit and drunken Kyle, and Jessica, the daughter of a famous hero who is studying to be priestess.
supporting characters include three heroes who helped in his adventures Dyne, the first is the "dreaded" D'Alkirk Mel, father of Jessica and mayor of the city of Meribia, Lemia Ausa, Mia's mother and leader society of magicians in Vane, and Ghaleon, powerful sorcerer and master Nash, who becomes the main antagonizta after assuming his alter ego, the evil Magic Emperor. The team also has to Laika, a powerful swordsman and expert adventurer who becomes the mentor of Alex, and then reveals that he is the Dyne Dragonmaster after losing his powers, Tempest and Fresca, who develop their own reasons to help Group Alex, many of the names in Japanese were changed in the American version, as Killy Kyle, Faidy to Quark the White Dragon, Temzin to Tempest, and pily to Fresca, Mel's been dubbed "Hell" Mel, or infernal Mel . A witch called xenobiotics is the antagonist and is an assistant and faithful servant of Ghaleon.
ALEX (Character main dreams of being like his hero, Dyne) 
Dragonmaster ALEX (Althena Guard must fight against the Magic Emperor) 
Dragonmaster DYNE (Hero of legend, disappeared mysteriously) 
Moon (Alex, their songs are magical, she is the reincarnation of Althena) 
Ramus (Friend of Alex dreams of becoming a millionaire) 
NASH (Mago de Vane, is very powerful and very arrogant) 
MIA AUSA (Daughter of Lemia and future leaders of society of wizards, has a weak character) 
Jessica (daughter of Mel, an apprentice priestess and is very temperamental) 
KYLE (Bandit and alcoholic, is very egocentric) 
TEMPEST ( Leader of a tribe in the prairies, you need to get the cure for a plague to help his people) 
FRESH (Wife of Tempest, is a warrior) 
GHALEON (Premier of society magicians, hides a terrible secret) 
GODDESS ALTHEN possessed by the evil of Ghaleon, Althena forgets its past by Alex) 
Laika (traveler and warrior, he hides his true identity) 
LEMI AUSA (Leader of the Society of Magicians, has two personalities, good and bad) 
MEL D'ALKIRK (ex heroey pirate, is the mayor of the great city of Meribia) 
TABEN (Evil inventor, creator of the machines more terrifying than the world ever known ah) 
MAGIC EMPEROR (Blinded by the courage to be exiled siso Althena the border, wants to be the world's supreme reinador) 
xenobiotics (Ghaleon Assistant is an evil woman, leader of the race of devils "VILE TRIBE" 
MYGHT (Supporting Dyne, myght is the best inventor the world, now will turn to help Alex) GAME DEVELOPMENT ...
Lunar: The Silver Star was developed by Game Arts, designed as a role play that would focus on the animation and the history, the team asked the script and stage design Kei Shigema who would break with the traditional stories of an RPG and broaden the vision, using all the capabilities of the Sega CD, the artistes and animator Toshiyuki Kubooka glide all the video sequences with voice actors to have magnificently Lunar history. Game Arts formed a subsidiary company called Studio Alex, named after the main character in this game, who supported the development.
The English version of Lunar estubo by Working Designs, a small California company specializing in games for the TurboGrafx-16 and TurboDuo. His greatest project was Lunar, Victor Ireland, president of the company will take a lot of appreciation to the title, who collaborated with the original Japanese team, Ireland improved the playability of the title, including new sequences as Alex playing the harp to recover Luna memory. Working Designs put extra effort into the packaging, giving us a manual art, and pictures of the characters, and recorded on the disc that increased the value of the product.
the English script was 4 megabytes in size, for dubbing the team put a lot of humor in the dialogues and the text of the game, numerous pop culture references that had not in the original version in Japanese, including references to commercial American celebrities, idioms, cliches to products and RPGs.
Originally released for Sega CD in Japan was very successful 
The company defunct Working Designs Lunar was the mother in America, thanks to this company is today Lunar to day saga muxos beloved by
MUSIC ...
The music in Lunar: The Silver Star was composed by Noriyuki Iwadare, Hiroshi Fujioka, Isao Mizoguchi, and Yoshiaki Kubodera, who used all the capabilities of the Sega CD to create a soundtrack of high quality, the game had an opening theme entitled " Moon, "sung by Mayumi Sudou in Japanese and English version sung by vocalist Almeda Shiya version that had new lyrics by Victor Ireland, who will remove the song love the sound and made him a faster version.
On April 22, 1992, Lunar: The Silver Star Original Soundtrack was released exclusively in Japan by Toshiba-EMI Records, two months before the start of the game, the album had the opening and ending songs full, and their versions of the game karaoke.los issues were also included in remixed versions. the official North American version never came out, many of the songs on the album came out after Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete collector's edition, including the subject in English.
The original album Lunar Lunar: The Silver Star Original Soundtrack tracklist
1. "Lunar" (vocal by Mayumi Sudou)
2. "Saga of the Silver Star"
3. "Funky Dance" (vocal by Mayumi Sudou)
4. "Sensitive Dream" (vocal by Kikuko Inoue)
5. "Introduction ~ Lunar"
6. "Beginning of a Journey I" (Burg Village / Luna's Dream)
7. "Beginning of a Journey II" (Field 1 / Battle / Dragon's Cave / Meeting the White Dragon)
8. "Adventure I" (Village / Ship Voyage / Balloon Voyage / Airship Voyage)
9. "Adventure II" (Meribia / Cave / Town / Vane / Crystal Tower)
10. "In the Midst of the Journey I" (Luna's Theme (Harp) / Ominous Premonition / Theme of Sadness / Theme of Anxiety)
11. "In the Midst of the Journey II" (Meeting a Friend / Shadow of the Enemy / Songstress' Song / Songstress' Song (Flat) / Item / Enemy Encounter)
12. "Surmounting the Trial" (Field 2 / Tower / Mid-Boss Battle / Goddess Tower / Machine Castle Attack / Inside Machine Castle)
13. "The Final Battle" (Great Boss Battle / Awakening / Distant Lunar)
14. "Lunar (Karaoke)"
15. "Sensitive Dream (Karaoke)"
VOICE DUBBING ...
The Japanese and English versions of Lunar: The Silver Star contained 15 minutes of spoken dialogue a large number for the time. The Japanese version had a Kikuko Inoue doing the voice of Alex and Luna, Rei Sakuma is Nall, Koichi Kitamura is Quark, and Naya Rokuro as Ghaleon. The English team had new talent, Working Designs call for Alex Ashley Parker Angel, Rhonda Gibson is Luna, Jackie Powers is Nall, Hal Delahousse is Quark, and John Truitt is Ghaleon, who repeated his role in playstation version.
ASHLEY PARKER ANGEL gave his voice to Alex in the American version of LUNAR, both to PLAYSTATION SegaCD
RECEPTION ...
Lunar: The Silver Star was well received in Japan, sold 100,000 copies, the entire production in the first year of its launch as many copies as the Mega CD itself. is considered the first big hit of the system, the game became one of the best selling title in Japan, and the second most successful of the sega cd, cd behind Sonic.
The English version that came out a year later had a similar response GAMEFAN MAGAZINE magazine called it "far and away the best RPG i have ever played in Inglés ", GamePro had a similar analysis" not just the best Sega CD RPG ever, But one of the best on Any Sega system, with particular merit for dubbing, but found flaws in the characters very small " Every Other RPG look like "and that there is not much replay value." Electronic Gaming Monthly qualify to play with 7.6 or "worthy" rating, In 2006, Moon was ranked in 113th place in EGM and 1UP.com 's "The Greatest 200 Videogames of Their Time ".
LUNAR had great acceptance, character designs by Toshiyuki ran KUBOOKA HERITAGE ...
As the first game of the series, The Silver Star established themes and characters that would be used later. The game was followed by Lunar: Eternal Blue in 1994, a direct sequel which takes place 1000 years after the future of Silver Star, and contains references to the original title muxas. followed after Lunar: Walking School in 1996 and Lunar: Dragon Song in 2005 which are prequels to the original story, taking thousands of years earlier. There was also muxos remakes for various consoles.
COMMERCIAL WHERE ORIGINAL LUNAR Japanese ad for the Sega CD.
ENTRY IN HIS VERSION OF THE GAME IN ENGLISH
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