Lunar 1 length

[Sekoria]

I played both lunars a long time ago and, from my memory, lunar 1 was very short. Is my memory wrong? What is its length?

[Varanus]

Define "short". I recall it taking around 50+ hours my first time through, in the ye olden days. Which was about standard for 90s jrpgs.

[Gelk]

I think my playthrough with the unworking designs patch was in the low 20hrs

[RCJenn]

With the ability to speed up battles the game can probably be completed about 20% faster than the original, but it's still a good 20 to 40 hours per game depending on how impatient or thorough you are.

Players are unique; some try to speed run through everything, and skip through every dialogue while others want to explore every nook and cranny, speak to everyone they see, and rob every house.

In any case, my personal rule of thumb is if a game gives me at least one dollar per hour of gameplay, and by that rule the Lunar collection passes with flying colors.

[Varanus]

Originally posted by RCJenn:

Players are unique; some try to speed run through everything, and skip through every dialogue while others want to explore every nook and cranny, speak to everyone they see, and rob every house.

This is a valid point. Personal playstyle highly affects play time. I am very thorough in my playthroughs of games. Searching everything and talking to everyone. As well as intentionally taking my time, and not looking for shortcuts(for example, I have never gone horse mountain climbing in Skyrim, or even used a horse at all). I am the very antithesis of a speedrunner. Thus my play times are far longer than some others.

[BaronOBeef]

I've read people say Lunar 2 is roughly 1.5 times the length of Lunar 1 (whether you're rushing the story or trying to complete everything). From memory playing the originals and the remakes that sounds about right.

[RCJenn]

Eternal Blue was definitely a love letter to Silver Star fans.
I don't think the original developers expected Silver Star to do as good as it did and develop such a cult following, so they really tried to make Eternal Blue bigger, better, and more endearing than Silver Star.

[Xengre]

You can check an estimate here https://howlongtobeat.com/

Depending on how you play through the first game ranges from around 30 hours, give/take a few, up to around 50 hours for full 100% completion.

[Ogami]

Lunar 1 took me around 25 hours to beat the first time, the second game is a bit longer , around 35 hours with the epilog chapter after the credits.

[Sekoria]

Ah ok thanks. By the way, I see a lot of people angry with working designs localisation from back then, why is that?

[sagevallant]

Originally posted by Sekoria:

Ah ok thanks. By the way, I see a lot of people angry with working designs localisation from back then, why is that?

They added a lot of stuff like pop culture references as jokes that wasn't in the game, strictly speaking.

For Lunar 1, they also significantly raised the difficulty and added a lot of grinding. Not so much for Lunar 2.

[Dzaka]

Originally posted by Sekoria:

Ah ok thanks. By the way, I see a lot of people angry with working designs localisation from back then, why is that?

it was the 90's. localization wasn't like it was today. where they try to at least get the same meaning to the translations.

back than they'd just take the video for anime. and the gameplay for games and just slap their own story on it and say "that's ok"

take pokemon for instance. multiple times brock and others would pull out onigiri which are balls of rice with a pickle or something in the center than wrapped in seaweed. in the english dubs they were "jelly donuts"

https://youtu.be/8ThWQcq7olE?si=tPiJZQ8N7aZaqpMU

and you'd get stuff like this

[Diabolical Taco]

I'm almost through the Lost Woods at 11 hours. Granted, I'm using 3x battle speed. Yes, I've done everything up to this point besides getting to the women's bath. For reference, I never once had to grind the WD PSX versions of 1 or 2.

[Sekoria]

Ok, I see :)

[Village Idiot]

Originally posted by RCJenn:

With the ability to speed up battles the game can probably be completed about 20% faster than the original, but it's still a good 20 to 40 hours per game depending on how impatient or thorough you are.

Players are unique; some try to speed run through everything, and skip through every dialogue while others want to explore every nook and cranny, speak to everyone they see, and rob every house.

In any case, my personal rule of thumb is if a game gives me at least one dollar per hour of gameplay, and by that rule the Lunar collection passes with flying colors.

Should be much faster.

In most of the battles, the party would just use the exact same moves every single turn, with some exceptions in the end game where you would have someone spamming White Dragon Protect for damage absorption and whenever you need to restore MP.

Just set up macros and hit speed up.

[Michael]

Cleared Silver Star Story today at 12 hours, heavily abusing the Battle Speed function and the auto-attack "tactics" button. Finished at level 56.