Last week, we noted how Luna’s presence enhances her characterization, and makes her eventual kidnapping (the first one happens this week!) all the more resonant. But Luna is not the only member of your party. By the end of this week’s stream, we have met everyone that will help us slay (well… inconvenience) dragons, and have partied up with 75% of ‘em. And the excellent thing is that, give or take a potential takeover of a Magic Guild, all of these characters are introduced in relative peacetime.
Nash joins temporarily when you save him from a banana trap, but joins on a more permanent basis after sorting out your diamond deal. He is a narcissistic magic user, and links up because he is a bro that wants to show off his dorm back at his alma mater. He is then tasked with helping Alex through a few school assignments, and presents himself as along for the ride for the sheer thrill of getting to showcase the one lightning spell he knows by heart.
Kyle is asleep for this stream. He is a respected bandit and would be an excellent swordsman to have handy… but he just had a big night of wine, women, and song. So he is too hungover to join you right now. You know he will be part of the party some day, but he needs a little nappy nap right now.
Jessica Alkirk joins the party temporarily when taking down a fake dragon master. She incidentally has healing powers, but is much more than a priestess with some white magic. All she wants most in the world is to hit some hick frog-rider in the face with a mace. She only joins for the length of one dungeon, and that’s a good thing, because her boisterous personality threatens to steal main character duties from Alex.
Mia Ausa has the most obvious arc in all of Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete, as she starts as (effectively) a princess that is afraid to leave her own room, but gradually grows into a woman that will command one of the most powerful lasers available to lucky mooninites. She goes a long way! Even within this week’s vignette, she uncovers a vast conspiracy, and then battles her way up a tower to save her queen and kingdom (again, pedantic nerds, metaphor). She stays behind in Vane by the end of this adventure, but you can immediately identify how she would eventually become a force to be reckoned with.
So, by the end of this week’s stream (and thus about six hours into the game), all of these characters are not technically in your party (because Alex and Luna are going to show Ghaleon around town), but you have a complete understanding of who they are and how they work. They will be the party moving forward, but for now they are simply friends that helped you out. And such characterization goes a long way to helping you to appreciate the cast of Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete.
And that has nothing to do with them being a bunch of anime stereotypes.
Let’s Play Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
Night 2
June 3, 2025
Random Notes:
- Welcome back! BEAT and I are fighting about sandwiches. Chromes, fanboymaster, Morning Song, Jeanie, and Cassandralyn will have to deal with the leftovers.
- Phacia is identified as “rich coded”… which is a little weird for the high priestess of the only religion in town.
- Some random NPC is quoting Austin Powers. Yeah baby. Yeah.
- Caithness joins just as we make it through the Cave of Trials and arrive at Vane to commit various crimes.
It’s time for Bible discussion! What’s your favorite book of the Bible? Is it from before God blew His load?- Nash is in the hall of fame for sucking.
- Jessica is introduced at swampy Lann as we discuss palindromes and Tenant.
- “BEAT is going to learn every week that Lunar takes place on the moon.”
- Trynant sneaks in while we are determining our garbage children ranking. Then we move on to the benefits of M. Night Shyamalan movies.
- Caliscrub arrives as we are discussing Ranma ½ through the generations.
- Good news! As we return to Vane, we are reminded BEAT’s Tamagotchi plant is doing well!
- Dethklok has the perfect pilot episode, and I will hear no naysayers.
- “Who doesn’t like slowpoke?”
- And we wrap up with saving Vane and naming our favorite songs that have been terribly misinterpreted.
Let’s meet Ghaleon! He is a person with albinism.
Next phase on Lunar: No. Not Ghaleon.
I like froggy dragons