Lunar: Silver Star Story Completed 7

You ever just want to hit something until it falls down?

Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete is not a game known for its bosses. Your first dungeon has the finale of ramming monsters into walls, and no actual boss. You do not see a boss critter until a blob boards a boat, and that slime literally has nothing to do with anything (just a naturally occurring, regional ocean monster?). From there, you have a couple of fake dragons, a handful of mandatory monster mobs, and one epic climb up a magic tower to confront a gang of generic gargoyles that go down like chumps. And, to be clear, this is not a Dragon Quest 7 situation: you are not fighting a lack of bosses because the world is at peace until Ghaleon throws the furies out of whack. No, even after the threat to the world kicks into high gear, you are still just fighting giant enemy crabs and the occasional other kind of gargoyle. For significant, plot-related boss fights, you only slay one (legitimate) black dragon, two out of three wicked sisters, a chicken robot, and Ghaleon. And you don’t even start fighting those big boys and girls until this week! And next week is the end!

And, hey, there’s nothing wrong with that.

Bosses in Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete are neither meant to be story significant nor puzzle bosses that urge careful planning. They usually have one general gimmick based on character spacing or status ailments, and anything else is merely a matter of healing before telegraphed attacks. And they do not need to be anything more than that! Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete is a classic style RPG where the general challenge is based on resource management, and simply getting to a boss with extra potions in your pocket is considered a success. Bosses are not the gigantic, dramatic events that would be seen in Lunar’s descendants; bosses are there to test if you have been running from every encounter. They are level checks. The end.

And when we do get to the big story beat bosses this week, like Fake Ghaleon, even those bosses are less “important” and more… just kinda there. It is fun to see Fake Ghaleon use all the spells you got to use when he was a party member for five seconds fifteen hours ago! But past that recognition, it is just another boss battle where you have to heal every other round and keep Alex on super slash duty. That’s all. You would not even bat an eye if Fake Ghaleon were replaced with that angry ghost cloud from back in the mines. New dungeon, new boss… same tactics from back at the boat blob.

And that is fine. Sometimes you just want to play an RPG where the bosses are HP sponges. Not everything has to be Emerald Weapon. Sometimes you just want to whale on a magic emperor until he can feel it in those ridiculous shoulder pads.

Let’s Play Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
Night 7

July 22, 2025

Random Notes:

• I have been informed that tonight we will be watching Lunar and stealing some drugs with BEAT, fanboymaster, Chromes, Jeanie, Morning Song, and Cassandralyn.
• This stream happened on the same day we lost Ozzy Osbourne, so please listen to our brief eulogizing of our favorite Batman.
• Ample Vigour joins as our Lunar heroes are making their last world tour to grab a few spare items.
• As we explore the opening floors of the Grindery, we discuss syndicated newspaper comic strips and how they involve bastards and/or racism.
• “God damn you, Earthworm Jim!”
• Caliscrub joins just in time to learn why “Bonk bonks Saddam Hussein” is an important part of our shared history.
• As Magic Emperor Ghaleon is “defeated”, BEAT considers perfect albums from when he was a teenager.
• Please follow Gender non-conforming makeup artist Ghaleon on YouTube.
• The Fortress of Althena is raised as the shameful tale of double spaghetti is told.
• The Lunar Timeline is just a dude telling stories. The Legend of Zelda timeline is the dumbest concept ever considered.
• Alex becomes a dragonmaster again! And Chromes does not like Nall’s face. We provide a comparison between a dragon-cat and Edward the Cat.
• Avengers: Doomsday is probably not an excuse for Disney to burn a big pile of money in a bonfire. Probably.
• Our party is cursed for some damned reason, and BEAT estimates we are four hours from the finale. He’s wrong!
• Let’s talk about diners! They should be open forever. Also, Caithness is here, I guess.
• “Silksong will never come out” – fanboymaster, July 22, 2025.
• So we will have a little more Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete for next week, we close with the Royce boss fight. As we will never be on topic, we are talking about the perils of Ultraverse Prime #11 and Cerberus.

Next phase on Lunar: This moon has got to go.