History VideoGame / LunarTheSilverStar

* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: Zigzagged, because while the Dragonmaster outfit comes with a red helmet, [[spoiler: Alex]] only wears it in his portrait; the in-game sprite goes without it.

* InconsistentDub: There's a type of enemy that's called a "Puwa Puwa Bug" in dialog, but in battle they are referred to as "Puffy Bugs".

* DamselInDistress: Luna is the number one example, since spends half the game in captivity and only the hero can free her. Mia and Jessica, otherwise very capable girls, fall victim to this trope when they contract an illness in Pao. None of the boys are effected.

* InconsistantDub: There's a type of enemy that's called a "Puwa Puwa Bug" in dialog, but in battle they are referred to as "Puffy Bugs".

* VendorTrash: The Sega CD version contained so ''much'' Vendor Trash that the remakes feel downright devoid of items by comparison.

* IncestIsRelative: The town of Meryod is populated entirely by inbred hicks, who seem to delight in mentioning their {{squick}}y close interrelation with each other. This gag was added to the game by Working Designs, and thus is not present in every version of the game.

* BrattyHalfPint: Nash.

* HypnotizeThePrincess: What [[spoiler:Ghaleon]] does to [[spoiler:Luna]] after capturing her.

[[caption-width-right:285:So good, they can't stop remaking it.]]

* ''Lunar: Silver Star Story'' for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn and its updated re-release for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation. Working Designs localized the [=PlayStation=] version as ''Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete''. It had a [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer Windows PC]] port, but unfortunately [[NoExportForYou it never left Japan (or South Korea)]] due to technical problems during the localization process.

[[caption-width-right:280:So good, they can't stop remaking it.]]

* CutsceneViewer: ''Story Complete'' had a theater where the player could watch any of the anime cutscenes from the game, as well as the character bromides and other extras. Being one of the first games to offer this sort of content, it was considered innovative at the time.

** Granted, this one is a bit different than usual, as instead of the Zoidberg here being less important than the others, the loss of Kyle is the one that hits Jess the hardest.

** Ghaleon also gets a lot of this - the anime scenes get his weirdly pale [[spoiler:Vile Tribe]] skin tone right, but his game portrait and sprite give him a "typical" complexion, which means you can actually ''forget'' he's supposed to be an albino playing only the Sega CD version, with the long stretches between cutscenes. The intro also gets his skin color wrong.
*** His eyes also go a little back-and-forth - they're normal-ish size in his portrait and the anime intro, but pick up that distinct [[spoiler:Vile Tribe]] narrowness and shape in all other anime scenes. Of course, in his big [[spoiler:villain reveal]] scene, he's more classically off-model, [[http://www.lunar-net.com/tss/screens/3/images/LUNAR_017.jpg as his eyes begin to take up most of his head]].

* GameBreakingBug: ''Silver Star Story Complete'' has an exceptionally cruel example. Before the game was released, there was playable demo available wherein it is possible to transfer Alex's ocarina out of his inventory. In the full version of the game, it is not possible to do this, with good reason: the ocarina has a ''single'' required use. At the very end of the game. AFTER you defeat the final boss. And, unfortunately, at that point Alex is on his own, with no one else in the party - if the ocarina isn't in his inventory, the game becomes {{unwinnable|ByMistake}}.

* FollowTheLeader: The prevalence of flutes and ocarinas in ''Zelda'' series may have had some influence on the decision to change Alex's instrument of choice from a harp (in ''The Silver Star'') to an ocarina (in the remakes). Although the Japanese version of ''Silver Star Story'' [[OlderThanTheyThink actually predates]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOftime the most famous ocarina in the]] ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Zelda]]'' [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime series]]. Which makes it kind of ironic that Link acquired a magical harp in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle of Ages]]''.

The first game in the the Creator/GameArts-developed ''VideoGame/{{Lunar}}'' series of [[EasternRPG console role-playing games]]. The game has gotten multiple [[VideoGameRemake remakes]] and/or [[UpdatedRerelease enhanced re-releases]] over the years on multiple platforms. The titles are:

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In ''Silver Star Story'', examine the chicken in Alex's house. An irritated Nall will comment on how they wake him up in the morning and how he wants to "choke them."
** In ''Silver Star Story Complete'', checking under a kid's bed upstairs in Saith causes Nall to comment that he didn't know you could make one of ''THOSE'' with [[NoodleImplements a stick of butter and a rubber band.]] Nall suggests you move on so as not to get the kid in trouble.
** The game is rife with so many subtle and not so subtle [[DoubleEntendre references]], it's amazing the censors never picked it up.

* ''Lunar: Silver Star Story'' for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn and its updated re-release for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation. Working Designs localized the the [=PlayStation=] version as ''Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete''. It had a [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer Windows PC]] port, but unfortunately [[NoExportForYou it never left Japan (or South Korea)]] due to technical problems during the localization process.

** Mostly averted in the remakes, as the equipment menus for most of the GuestStarPartyMembers are locked down. However, it's still played straight with Ramus and Luna, although you do have opportunities to empty their inventories before they leave permanently.

--> '''Alex''': "LUNA!"
--> '''Luna''': "ALEX!"

** Unfortunately, this is averted in the remakes - the equipment menus for temporary characters are locked down.

* LullDestruction: ''Silver Star Story Complete'', when [[spoiler:Ghaleon makes his FaceHeelTurn official]] Creator/WorkingDesigns fills what would otherwise be silence with EvilGloating.

* InformedAbility: Luna's singing is supposedly the most beautiful in the world. While the actress has a beautiful singing voice, she probably falls short of "God[dess]ly". The bar singers are also said to have beautiful voices... but they sing a pretty silly-sounding tune that's off-key to boot. It's notably ''averted'' in Meryod, however, whose songstress is just as bad as she's said to be.

* InformedAbility: Luna's singing is supposedly the most beautiful in the world. While the actress has a beautiful singing voice, she probably falls short of "God[dess]ly". The bar singers are also said to have beautiful voices... but they sing a pretty [[{{Narm}} silly-sounding]] tune that's off-key to boot. It's notably ''averted'' in Meryod, however, whose songstress is just as bad as she's said to be.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: In ''The Silver Star'', Alex must journey to Althena's Tower as the final step to become a Dragonmaster. Two winged, humanoid dragons (the Dragon Angels) challenge him to a [[DualBoss two-on-one]] DuelBoss for the right to wield Althena's Sword and then later appear when [[spoiler:Alex is trying to save Luna]]. All of the remakes cut them out entirely and they never make an appearance in any version of Lunar 2.