/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6006762
no, but I played the Sega CD version

>>6006762
Nope, nobody ever

Which version would you recommend for someone playing for the first time, and will likely only play one version?

>>6006782
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6QY1vxo_EQ

>>6006794
Don't remember any major changes outside of graphic and Sega CD opening of Lunar 1.

But Lunar 2 CD is better since PSX the localization version redid a lot of the mechanics which made it more annoying to play. Like having to spend I think money to save and few other things.

>>6006762
Yes

>>6006797
Then I guess I'll give the PS1 version a go if there are no major differences since I know how to emulate that one, while I don't even know whether Sega CD emulation even exist or in what state it is in.

>>6006802
no

>>6006810
sega cd emu works fine

>>6006810
Fusion emulator and the few times I touched it and works alright. Might find some audio issues and other things but overall it works. PSX doesn't really have enough changes to really say Sega CD is better unless you really enjoy the Sega CD pixel style which is nice. PSX anime cut scenes looks nice too.

As I said Lunar 2 is the one you should maybe look into the Sega CD version.

>>6006818
I'm surprised there isn't any kind of patched/hacked version of Lunar 2 PS1 that reverts changes aside from the text if really only the localization fucked it up.

>>6006794
PS1 Best version

>>6006821
Working Design is well known for tweeking their games in a lot of unfun ways. But feel too many people have a weird fondness for their games to really care to undo it.

Popful Mail is one of the most well known fuckery where enemies near the end just hit like a fucking brick in the localized version and stop a lot of people from beating it.

>>6006762
>Anyone ever play this on ps1?

Yes.

>>6006794
>Which version would you recommend for someone playing for the first time,

Honestly, and this gets said a lot, but I'd really recommend you play both for this as well as the sequel. The changes aren't small and while the broad strokes are the same there is quite a significant overall. PS1 Silver Star is probably a bit more fleshed out though. Eternal Blue on the other hand is were things get really hard to pick.

Seriously Eternal Blue CD is goddamn stunning and I wouldn't call the PS1 cutscenes bad but it's full of pretty obvious CGI

I was quite captivated by SSS Complete as a kid. Something about it is just so charming, it really gave me that "playing an anime" feel. Can't remember which girl tickled my peepee the most, but Jessica is probably the one who stuck with me the most, but Royce is nice and Xenobia has that hot 40-something MILF look going on. Loved those revealing outfits, really put the goods on display. They also put a nice ass shot on the back of the case. To be honest just thinking about this game is giving me a tingle, even though I just jerked it not too long ago I might want to bust a nut to one of the Lunar babes before I head off to sleep (it is 3:21AM where I am).

>>6006865
There is an absolutely CRIMINAL lack of decent fanart of this series

>>6006869
>>6006871
>>6006873
Yeah, I really want to play with Jessica's pointy ears, maybe given them a bit of a nibble before doing it

I can't even really find the bromides online anymore.

It is not an ideal situation.

I want that chubby butt on my face right now! God she's so hot.

Goddamn early 2000s low resolutions

>>6006880
Not even into feet but look at that foot! Yum. Pretty nice rack, too. Too bad more games didn't include official ecchi shots of their girls, always nice to bust a nut to officially sanctioned schwack fodder.

>>6006878
Not gonna lie boys I busted about 647 nutts to this artwork circa 1999

I don't even know how they got away with some of this shit

>tfw you will never bury your nose deep in Jean's sweaty armpit after she gives a borderline erotic dance around the fire, giving all the young boys in her camp cute little shota boners that they try to hide from eachother
Just not fair. I want to do it!

>>6006897
Based Borgan, literally built for hentai.

>>6006902
HALT! I CANNOT ALLOW SUCH ACTS OF MORAL INDECENCY TO CONTINUE!

>>6006904
He's a rape machine alright. Fucking hell that fight.

This wasn't even working designs fuckery either, I understand.

>>6006762
Yes there is also a sequel for PS1. not a bad game however that main characters are extremely annoying how they make stupid sounds when they attack. Very off-putting.

>>6006917
>Very off-putting.
you can turn that off you know.

>>6006865
I developed my first crush and waifu and it was Luna.

https://www.lunar-net.com/

Has everything Lunar, Unfortunately Grandia killed any hopes for Lunar 3 and studio Alex.

>>6006927
>Dragon Song

>>6006930
Never heard of it, that's not a thing, stop making shit up.

Lunar : SOUL
Final Fantasy : SOULLESS

>>6006935
There was one early strategy guide for Silver Star or Eternal Blue, where the WD people basically flat out said that the FF writers COULD NOT WRITE. Now you can LOL WD, but from what I recall their big complaint and main point was that FF writers were more obsessed with creating a big twist or set piece (The FF8 orphanage twist as an example) but never really putting much thought into how they get to those moments or what impact those moments actually have on the main story. And while I do love me some classic FF I think they're kind of right. If you look at games like the Lunars, Grandia and hell even Chrono Trigger to give Square some credit, there's a very clear through line in the flow of the story. Gamearts were very keen on making the actual middle parts of their games feel important. The whole game was about the adventure and they wanted to keep that flow.

>>6006941
and FF has 15 games while Lunar died at 2 with a few spin offs.

>>6006957
Well you know what they say about quality and quantity. But man do I miss me some classic adventure.

>>6006941
Final Fantasy always seem to tried to punch above it's weight class. Trying to be big and weird well before the PSX era. Hell FF1 you can seem them trying to poke fun at DQ1 by rescuing the princess right at the start of the game. The problem however was that...well Final Fantasy never really felt like they knew what they wanted the series to be. Each game tried to be so different in lots of different ways that it just made the series more of a mess than anything.
>Lunars, Grandia and hell even Chrono Trigger
Because those were mostly just trying to be fun JRPG adventures. Lunar main selling point was it's anime cut scenes while still being a cute fun adventure.

>>6006968
I think the earlier FFs at least kept their heads out of the clouds though. Well mostly. But most modern ones have gone completely mental with their jargon and other such bullshit. Like in FF6 and 7 you didn't need a glossary to get what magicite or materia was and the characters were still, for want of a better term, human. They were clear "stop the empire/megacorp" stories.

>>6006941
>the WD people basically flat out said that the FF writers COULD NOT WRITE.
Was Liddle Victor mad that he didn't get to "fix" Square's games, too?

>>6006762
Played through the PS1 version this August and it was great.

Loved the characters and tone, game knew when to stay a lighthearted adventure and when to reveal something big and honestly quite shocking. When Nash betrays you, it was actually quite surprising. Shame the dub ruined his betrayal by making him shout "CHECK THIS OUT" in his cocky voice. Hell, the bit afterward where Mia says she loves him after his boss fight was also quite surprising since you kind of felt it was a one way attraction since she doesn't really give any indication she truly likes him until this moment.

Characters overall were pretty based, loved Kyle the most and Jessica was best girl but they were all great, I was happy that in the end Each guy got the girl they were after. Which is a common trope for the main character, but never his party. People shit on the localization for the PS1 version but I think it gives the game some charm, kinda like the Shenmue dub. I mean sure, the characters interacted in stupid and unrealistic ways with some dumb pop culture references from the time, but I felt the added elements were great. Loved the music as well, "Fun Travelling" is such a great theme for the world map.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llHxavPRR-U

Really only issue I can give to the game is that the battles are a bit too slow for my liking, and Luna leaves the party too early which is a shame, understandable but still a shame, especially if they have some decent items on them.

>>6007259
Oy spoiler
In the Sega CD original she leaves the party after the first boss fight so she has even less interaction
I don't really think there's a definitive Lunar version, Sega CD and Saturn have better music than the playstation but the playstation version has better content.

>>6006797
>>6006818
>>6006848
You mean Working Designs made no major changes, or there aren't major changes in general between TSS and SSS? Because I can tell you that SSS made a number of changes to the plot, some of which make it incongruent with details in the sequel for no good reason.

>>6006941
Judging jrpg writing is totally gay, poorly translated JRPGs even more because you are essentially playing an autistic game of telephone by judging the writing of 5-10 other people filtered through the rushed cobbled together character-limited rewritings of some unpaid overworked nobody at the localization team.

So basically I'm saying that Woolsey did nothing wrong.

>>6006880
There's always Waifu2x if you need it.

the only lunar i played as sega one

and gba remake

>>6007273
Wait so should I play TSS or SSS?

>>6007335
The Silver Star if you want Eternal Blue to make a little more sense, Silver Star Story if you want something generally agreed to be a little more fun (albeit somewhat more casual). The way that the developers rationalized the changes were that "Mr. Mega-CD and Mr. PlayStation each recall the story differently," but for some reason they didn't bother altering the plot of the Eternal Blue remake accordingly (and if you're curious, I believe both GBA and PSP are based heavily on the PSX version).

>>6006871
>>6006873
goddamn
i loved collecting jessicas bromide in sss. kyle is a lucky chad.

>>6007279
I mean judging JRPG from the 90's was worse since until FF8 Square either just tried doing it themselves with a Japanese-English Dictionary like with FF4, Woolsey giving 0 time and had to cut 1/3 of the lines out to fit on a cart, or I have 0 idea why FF7 is as bad as the way it is.

FF9 localization is perfectly fine. Most of the issues is how since half the games wasn't done yet and the rest was handled so poorly they didn't really have the English past too look to when localizing it so lots of the references was lost in translation.

>>6007374
They use assets from the PSX version (like the FMVs) but I believe the stories have removed the changes that fuck up EB. The PSP version also has a a prologue fight with Dyne's team that drops hints of various plot points throughout all the games. It's sort of cool because they're broken as fuck and seem to be having a grand old time

I've only played the Saturn version
Is it different from PS? (Besides the FMV video quality)

>>6007279
I won't deny that the translations probably aren't doing a lot of these games any favors but you should still be able to get a sense of the base plot and it's still very clear that Square cares a lot more about singular moments than the whole.

>>6007335
The remakes have a better presentation on the surface level, but when you take a look at them more deeply, they definitely seem to have another audience in mind. Take this cutscene of Hiro walking into Lucia bathing in Eternal Blue:
>Original: *Hiro hears singing* *cut to Lucia* *sideways turn* "Who's there...?" *gasp*
>Remake: Lucia: *singing* Hiro: *stares for a longass time* *heavy breathing* Lucia: Who's there? *locks eyes* *eyes widen* *gasp* KYA-MOTHERFUCKIN'-AAAAAAGH!!!!! *jumps into water* Hiro: *confused look* Durr?
They take little moments like these and make them over-the-top, but the original makes sense with her personality and what we've seen of her. If I had to sum it up, Sega CD and PlayStation had two different design philosphies: the former was concerned with making a JRPG that took advantage of the CD-based hardware, the latter was more about outright making a cartoon that happened to be on a game console.

>>6006762
Its pretty bad

Not sure if the sequel is better

>>6007270
I guess I'm glad I didn't play the SegaCD version.
My first exposure to the game was the boat song video on a demo disc. After watching that, I had to get the game. Then I cried like a little bitch.

>>6008664
The CD version is still good. It's just comparatively bare bones.

>>6007538
>Cutscenes on par with PlayStation/Windows
>Adds several minor connections to Eternal Blue, supposedly removes Silver Star Story's plotholes
>Added prologue
>Best translation
Looking again, is Silver Star Harmony the way to go? Last I checked it had glitches though. And there are still a handful of things the Sega CD handled better in my opinion, like certain story beats and the soundtrack.

>>6008709
>Is piss easy
>The voice acting is actually shittier and with less hammy charm
>Cutscenes literally are just the playstaion versions
>The prologue is shit and adds more questions than it answers

SSH is the last alternative answer if you absolutely can't play SCD or playstation for some retarded ass reason.

>>6008723
>SSH is the last alternative answer if you absolutely can't play SCD or playstation for some retarded ass reason.
Damn. Lower than GBA?

Silver Star: Playstation
Eternal Blue: Sega CD

>>6008727
Oh no, it's better than the GBA port, but even it means never playing Lunar DO NOT PLAY THE GBA port. The GBA port is only slightly less horrible than Dragon Song

>>6008709
If you like overly long animations and terrible load times, sure.

>>6008737
Also not a fan of the isometric look.

>>6008709
>Adds several minor connections to Eternal Blue
Yeah, to a remake they never made.
>>6008723
>Is piss easy
To be fair it was really the next logical progression. The Saturn/PlayStation version was already noticeably more casualized than the Sega CD version, presumably because Game Arts was so darn proud of their animeted cutscenes at the time that they wanted more players to see all of them.

>>6008745
That's because the Sega CD versions could be psychotically difficult. Even if they where EASIER the PS1 versions still required you to be on the ball. There wasn't an I WIN button like SSH's limit breaks.

>>6006854
I'd call the PSX cutscenes bad. They are budget tier 90s anime with incredible amounts of compression and some bad cgi thrown in for good measure. Meanwhile the sprite based originals are crystal clear and more look more like the concept art.

>>6008745
>>6008747
I can't imagine that anyone that says Silver Star is difficult has played it. It is mindlessly easy. The Playstation version is considerably harder.

>>6008750
Ill be honest I haven't touched SSCD in a good long time, Im mostly speaking for EB which GOOD GOD, did not fucking play.

>>6008750

>>6008752
Why not? Eternal Blue on the Sega CD is by far the best lunar game. It is harder than your average JRPG, but its not exactly unreasonable.

>>6008774
Hey, Im not arguing it's quality. It's my favorite game of all time. Im just saying it ain't afraid to fuck you up.

>>6008750
Wrecking Designs upped the enemy stats considerably in games after The Silver Star, if you notice the actual dungeon layouts are simplified in Playstation and lends itself to what should've signaled an easier time.

You know, I thought about making an old style jrpg like this with stills for cutscenes. Do you think there's still a market for it or would a creation be forever doomed as just trashware? I know programming and got the money to hire artists and musicians for contract.

>>6008915
That's what Phantasy Star IV and it's highly lauded.

>>6008916
Yeah I was going to do something like that, though I don't mean manga style. More like using parallax scrolling techniques to save on animation.

>>6008918
If shit like Pier Solar can get funded Im sure there's a market

>>6008920
>3,519 backers pledged $231,370 to help bring this project to life.
>graphics look like half of it was stolen from rpg maker vx

How in the hell...

>>6006762
Yeah, love that game.

>>6008915
I mean the key to remember Lunar big selling point was because of CD technology they could add animation between cut scenes. Which PSX took advantage way more than Sega CD in the end. Now because of how detailed 3D polygons it becomes a bigger miss match between game play and cut scenes if used 2D animation. I mean there might be a market for it but I'm guessing it's a harder sell now that pixel art is losing it's luster in the indie space.

>>6008915
I mean the key to remember Lunar big selling point was because of CD technology they could add animation between gameplay which to many was the missing thing to JRPG in the 8/16 bit era. Which PSX took advantage way more than Sega CD in the end. Now because of how detailed 3D polygons it becomes a bigger miss match between game play and cut scenes if used 2D animation. I mean there might be a market for it but I'm guessing it's a harder sell now that pixel art is losing it's luster in the indie space.

>>6008915
There's games today that use highly detailed illustrations for cutscenes where it just displays a single beautiful but static illustration the whole scene, but I miss the PCE/Sega CD style where it uses a bunch of simpler cartoon drawings to represent different camera angles and changes between them like TV/movies, along with some simple animation.

>>6009138
The problem is that a lot of them today just look to clean. There's an inherent obviousness between a game with limited hardware being pushed to it's limits and using every trick in the book to make something stunning and a game with more power than it needs gimping itself on purpose to copy the look of oldschool.

>>6009149
No offense dude, but I have a big problem with this sort of tech faggotry. I don't care how many shaders or cpu cores something is using. I want good graphics. Sick pixel art with striking animation and parallax layers looks better than some plastic looking unreal engine shit that makes your computer sound like a jet taking off because its rendering every particle in a cloud of smoke.

I'm just hazarding a guess, but I wouldn't think Lunar 2 pushes the Sega CD in any way other than storage space (they clearly cut the audio quality in half so it could fit on the disk). And I'm sure it would have been possible to get everything down to 700 MB. The cutscenes are probably background layers with animated sprites on the moving parts. Exactly the sort of graphics the Genesis/Sega CD is designed to render. A ton of work for skilled artists, though. You need professionals to make something that looks that good.

In response to some other comments here, it isn't 2010 anymore. Indie developers are putting out stuff that looks great now.

>>6006762
I've not played it back then, don't know why. Every time I tried to play it on an emulator after, I couldn't get past the first place, the mountain I guess. Enemies would just fuck me up badly.
I guess it's one of those JRPGs where the start is really though then you get OP 10 hours later and steamroll everything

>>6008723
>>The voice acting is actually shittier and with less hammy charm
This is true. I was okay with the voice acting until Nall showed up with some Krillin sounding bullshit so I switched to an Undub. It's for the best anyway because I was already dreading Kyle being nowhere near as entertaining as he was in SSSC

>>6008915
how serious are you looking for an artist?

>>6008915
>/vr/ ima make gaem LARP #9001
>I know programming
I know him as well. Smashing lad.
Please start a thread about your fantasy so I can laugh even harder.

>>6006762
Yeah all the time when I was high school. Before I bought a copy I had rented a copy and was home sick from school and feel in love with everything about that game

It's a crime the only other thing the character designer for this series did was Giant Robo: The Animation. He draws extremely hot 2D women.

>>6010570
>2D
Your loser or something

>>6010570
He pretty much learned from Yoshiyuki Sadamoto anyway so it's not like it's much of a difference

>>6010570
Ronfar was basically Taiso. Which is awesome.

>>6010570

>>6006941
I can understand why people like FF7 and why it did so well, but that's a valid fucking point.

Every other fucking scene in that game is the game telling you where you need to go next by acting like you already decided on that decision in a previous scene that never fucking happened.

"So you folks are trying to cross the swamp, huh?"
No we're looking for a scary murder elf with a long sword, when did we even address the swamp, I'm not sure I even saw it on the world map before I-
"Well you'll need a chocobo to get past that giant monster."

"How did the Turks know we were planning on coming to this village"
What plan? This isn't even where we were supposed to be going? I didn't even know there was a village here!

"Here we are, Our home town, where that big secret lab was and where everything went to bad..."
>Nothing actually happens or gets discovered here except find an optional party member, and even that part is confusingly unimpactful, and you end up moving on feeling like you missed something important.

>>6010645
And 7 is actually one of the BETTER ones in regards to how it progresses. There are clear goals and obstacles and the only real MAJOR falling I can give it is that a lot of the character motivations are a bit dry. Also they kind of seemed to forget that Reno is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people.

Still you can at least understand shit. I still have no idea what that Dream of the Fayth shit from 10 was supposed to be. Game would have worked just fine if not better if Tidus was just some time displaced asshole.

>>6010645
Uh bro, you do realize that RPG's especially leave out dialogue that you can assume was stated? Members obviously know their way around the world, and would know they have to cross the swamp to keep going, and would ask about it. For example Aerith is from that village, Gongaga or whatever, Barrett was at Cosmo Canyon, etc... Why wouldn't the Turks assume you would stop by a town which is on the way? Your argument comes off more like you need everything spelt out for you. Not trying to flame or anything.

>>6010661
Ill agree with you that 7 is a bad example of this. It's at least clear what and why you're doing shit. My only BIG problem with it is that some characters have a very superfluous motivation. Red XIII and Yuffie being key examples. When I complain about FFs bad writing I typically go to 8s orphanage plot and memory loss inconsistency, X's dream bullshit and whatever the fuck was happening in 13.

>TFW no cutie beastgirlfriend who sometimes lights everyone on fire.

FYI they were almost centaurs. How would even do that? I mean...sexually.

>Final battle
>World in danger
>Alex, bro. Take EVERYTHING in my shop that isn't nailed down. You gotta save Luna. And the world. It's cool.
>World saved.
>Oh hey as the guy who sponsored the hero who saved the world Im making more money than should by all rights exist. Funny how that worked out.

And that's why Ramus is a glorious mother fucker.

covered in bitches.

>>6010661
There's a world of difference between a game leaving dialogue to the players imagination, instead of making it so vague and confusing and even contradictory to what implied earlier that you're not even sure if you're playing the game right and missed a key event.

>>6010658
>There are clear goals and obstacles
-Enter the village
-Cutscene forhshadowing Cait Sith comes up, but doesn't have anything to do with the location here.
-Find Zach's house
-Cutscene about Aerith talking about Zach
...
...
-There's like a tank boss, if you want to fight it?

Great clear goals and obstacles.

>>6012145
Ramus is one of the better RPG characters I've run across. He is a total bro

>>6009514
I technically have one on backup who I go to for other stuff. I'm always serious as long as their stuff is good.

>>6006762
in grade 9, this came out, my friend got the special edition with the cloth map and everything. and we both played it through taking turns. it is still one of my favourite games of all time.

I regret not getting one of these back in the day

>>6012610
I still got mine

>>6010620

>>6012671
It looks like they did finally release the Alex at some point. If I remember right he was supposed to be paired with an aborted PC release

>>6006797
there are minor story changes. nothing significant.

the audio fidelity is better on ps1. the cutscenes have been redone. re-recorded the voice acting. spells are named in combat on the ps1 game.

>>6006794
the devs of the game considered the ps1 version closer to their initial vision for the game over the sega cd version. both games are excellent though. ps1 is a bit easier so go with that. but check out the sega cd sometime. it's awesome. some prefer it. not sure why. it was my first (played it in'94!) but still prefer the ps1. avoid the gba and psp versions. they're garbage.

>>6012701
they never released the alex. victor ireland (the head guy at working designs) has two of them. they're both prototypes that never made it into production. he said he would part with them but it would have to be a lot of money.

I thought this had an anime adaptation... but I can't find it?
I'm remembering wrong?

>>6010570
based

>>6014553
KINDA. Walking School got a short gag one episode OVA but there wasn't anything based on the main games.

>>6014110
>the devs of the game considered the ps1 version closer to their initial vision for the game over the sega cd version.
Did they? I also recall >>6007374 ("Mr. Mega-CD and Mr. PlayStation each recall the story differently," with no sign of it being closer to their 'initial vision' in the interview.)

>>6006869
Funny that the character designer went on to make Idolmaster.

>>6007279
>MORE WORDS MEANS MORE MEANING

How I hate wordy faggots.

>>6010620
reminds me of

>>6008915
I mean the issue is all of these type of games (Lunar, Valis, ect.) that sold on it's anime cut scenes only really worked back than because it's all they really had. Back than all they had was sprites that bounce a bit as a text form. But with bigger storage with CD they started adding stuff like cut scenes with high quality music with voices. And once it became standard they needed to push more which gave you anime footage that wasn't just the opening or with something like Final Fantasy 3D models. But once PS2 era happened when all the character and scenes was at the fight high that was when the anime cut scenes didn't make sense anymore. Yeah they looked nice but they really was only there because the quality wasn't at a point where they could do anything better.

>>6014716
On a purely visual level I could see them saying it. Shame the story changes fuck it up

>>6014716
on the "making of lunar" bonus disc with the ps1 version the devs say the ps1 is closer. it's mostly because of the cutscenes and minor refinements. i want to think they were maybe hyping the game for better sales, but you couldn't see the interview unless you already bought the game.

>>6014553
the lead character designer has done work in anime. some...it's obvious it's the same guy as with giant robo (blu ray release coming in Dec!). others like harukana receive looking nothing like lunar.

pic is giant robo. can you tell it's the same guy?

>>6015232

>>6015232

>>6012145
>Alex, bro. Take EVERYTHING in my shop that isn't nailed down. You gotta save Luna. And the world. It's cool

More like, take all my low tier gear that won't help you in the long run. Besides, by the time I got there I already had about 30 healing nuts and star lights, so his inventory was kinda useless in the end.

Nice gesture in game, but I wish the devs actually gave him some decent items for Alex and co.

>>6012610
I saw one in person the other day. Wasn't much, as I recall.

>>6015271
Extra star lights are all good man

>>6015747
It's been so long since I played the game. Was there something that gives you more magic points?

>>6016237
*was that

>>6015747
Yeah, but you had a limit to the amount of items you could hold. .

>>6016237
They were, and brother with the stretches between statues they got used up.

>>6018328
Tempest is a very lucky man

>>6006762
one of my favorite games ever. rented it because the box looked cool, first rpg I really ever played. usually play it at least once a year. eternal blue is better in pretty much every way outside of the characters but I'll always prefer sssc

First time I ever pumped the ol shotgun was to this game in the hot spring cutscene when you get the soap item.

>>6015168
So are you saying, don't even try?

coot

>>6018352
Yeah, Nash had a really nice little twink butt

>>6018356
I mean try if you wish it. But asking if there's a market for it is a tricky one. Since the real reason why those anime cut scenes exist is because it's the best they could do at the time. I mean all you had was just character sprites bouncing around giving funny expressions. With CD you could just replace those goofy stuff with nice anime cut scenes to give better look at what is happening in the story even if the cut scenes where short. You had detail look at the characters and environment where they were which you couldn't really give at that time. Once polygons offered enough detail the idea of having those anime cut scenes were...well useless. Yeah starting a new game sometimes had them but now with detail models everything is uniformed in a way that older games couldn't.

>>6018356
>>6018831
The thing is going back to retro style is the exact opposite of TRYING. It's looking for an easy short cut to take to appeal to nostalgia. If you wanted to TRY you would be working out ways to bring the aesthetic and appeal of classic games to a modern era with a modern standard.

>>6018836
But arguably a lot of the aesthtic and appeal of classic games are born from said technical limitations. They cease to exist when you remove the limitation.

This series is honestly not worth to be played twice

If you have a hard on for old sprite work then Sega CD. Else go for PS

>>6018836
>>6018872
The main problem is always money. I can spend enough to make decent graphics, but without the financial power of even a mid tier company, I have no hopes of giving Snes level graphics in a sane amount of time. I have to do lower quality cause I just dont have the financial horsepower to do it. I work a decent job so I make a good sum of money, but it's not like I'm going to get the 3 million resource power that companies like Konomi and Square had at the time.

>>6007270
>In the Sega CD original she leaves the party after the first boss fight so she has even less interaction
Actually no, the first boss fight is the water dragon in the Meribian sewers after she leaves.

Giving this a bump since I started playing it on Sunday.

I like the sega cd music better for Lunar 1.