Lunar: Silver Star Story Completed 1

Ten goddamned years ago, I wrote an FGC article about Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete. To save you a click (on my own site? Oh man I am bad at this self-promotion thing), my central thesis was that Lunar was the most anime RPG to ever anime, and its main selling point has deteriorated over the years of anime becoming passé. And I stand by that assessment! Because I’m a narcissist! However, writing this introduction after completing the whole of Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete (spoilers for the next eight weeks of video: I win), I am ready to say something else: Lunar is more than anime.

So once a week, I am going to briefly examine the right and wrong (but not anime) of Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete.

This week, the adventure officially begins, so we’ll start with the most prominent piece of Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete: Alex and Luna are inseparable.

This is a major change from the original Sega CD version of Lunar! In that telling of the adventure, Luna stays behind to hang with the in-laws while Alex goes off on adventures. Here, Luna is literally never far from your main party (until she gets kidnapped once or twice). And that’s important! Because while Luna was always destined to be some version of “the damsel” to keep Alex fighting even after he acquires a new hat, a Luna that is constantly present and useful is a Luna that you, the player, want back. Never mind this whole intimate and untouchable love possessed by the two characters, you need that blue-haired girl around to be the best healer on this satellite. In fact, when Luna gets a healing buddy next week (and certainly more on her later), Luna proves to be the better healer. Jessica is no substitute for the woman Alex loves in plot or gameplay.

So, in short, Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete does an excellent job of establishing its main duo right from the start. Alex and Luna are destined for each other, and Alex is going to fight harder for her than some spikey-haired SOLDIER ever did for his flower girl.

Hey, maybe that’s why Luna actually survives this story…

Let’s Play Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
Night 1

May 27, 2025

Random Notes:

• Welcome to our stream of the complete Lunar: Silver Star Story… Complete. Huh. Anyway, we’ve got BEAT, Cassandralyn, fanboymaster, and Morning Song in attendance. I am Godless Bob, and I’ll be playing through this whole RPG.
• Luckily, fanboymaster is currently hyperfixating on Lunar, so he offers a lot of information on the differences between versions. Learn something, will ya?
• Trynant joins as we all search for Chromes. Chromes is nowhere to be found.
• Look, they invited this with a choking chicken joke. Time to talk about jacking off!
  

  Hell yeah!

• “Let’s not kid ourselves, we’ve all been horny for anime at some point in our lives.”
• We still have fanboymaster dutifully explaining version differences as we enter the White Dragon Cave. BEAT mostly focuses on Luna raving.
• Dragon excrement means we must address Working Designs’ translation and whether Lunar was ever meant to be funny. Here’s a tip: if your party is collecting poop from a dragon, someone is likely trying to make a joke.
• We’ve got the dipshit white dragon on our team.
• Sidetalking.com is still around. Let us enjoy all the sidetalking now available to us.
• Lunar: like Grandia, it’s just charmin’.
• Caliscrub joins as “Laike” guides the party through a foggy forest.
• Ramus is useful in this version/translation. I don’t care what anyone in 1997 said, he is not Eric Cartman.
• “I want my gravestone to say ‘I’ve been diddled again.’”
• “Why do we keep ooze posting!?”
• Please do not sexualize our 15-year-old heroine. Oh, we made it to the boat, let’s sit back and enjoy a sea shanty.
• Who is your favorite Lunar character? Why is it Jessica?
• We do not talk about Lunar: Dragon Song. We do not talk about beastman racism.
• “I’ve been diddled upon the boat.” “Oh no. No.”
• As we trudge through the sewers, we discuss ghouls, ghosts, goblins, and arremers.
• The poo dragon is defeated! Which, to be clear, is separate from the dragon poo! Now you can start a business empire that lasts a millennia, Ramus.
• And as we close out, we learn why Gangplank Galleon must never be mentioned on stream again.

Next phase on Lunar: How many fake dragons are in this game?