Lunar: The Silver Star – 1992 Developer Interviews
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This collection of interviews from BEEP Mega Drive magazine chronicles the development and release of Lunar: The Silver Star, the beloved 1992 RPG published by Game Arts and developed by the now-defunct Studio Alex, a team formed by ex-members of Nihon Falcom and Xtalsoft.
Lunar was conceived and crafted in tandem with the then-burgeoning CD-ROM format to express a depth and breadth of character-motivated drama heretofore unseen in traditional Japanese RPGs; these factors, along with a heavy marketing campaign and a divisive but colorful localization, saw the game become one of the highest-selling Sega CD games ever and led to a small handful of sequels, as well as remakes across Sega Saturn, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance and PlayStation Portable.
Comments
Interesting interview, didn't know Ayano Koshiro was in this interview. There's not much more about voice actors, but they mainly talked how happy they are to have Kikuko Inoue to voice in the game. I wished there's an interview that talks about the SEGA CD console. Like why they made it now, instead of wait till the next gen console. BTW, could you tweet this to the people who worked on this game, please?
ProtoSnake
2020-07-16 21:38:40 +0000 UTC
