"A game that will get you going, then angry when you beat it."

Now, how can you go wrong with an RPG?

Some people who have played this game would complain about the battle system, the runnin' system, and just about everything in this game.

Then you have some like me who actually enjoyed this game despire all those problems. The story is what get's you going. It's what puts all those horrible gameplay aspects aside. Until you reach the end of the game and you realize, "this is what I played for?".

So yah, let me start off from the beginning again, like most Lunar games, it's about the Goddess hiding herself in human form, and the main character who happens to be in love with her wants to save her from returning to be a Goddess, so he goes off to be a Dragon Master (after a plot twist in the game). That's just about the whole plot in the game, it just takes forever to reach that plot though. I was playing the game not knowing what the heck was going on for a couple of hours.

Now, while playing the game. The only major problem I had was how you don't choose what enemy you attack in battles, and how week the other party members are. It's rather useless half the time to battle manually, so you're better off putting the game in "auto-mode" during a battle. Heck, while you're doing that, you can get up and order Pizza Hut and come back to find you won the battle (although this doesn't apply to the bosses).

Another thing that I see people complain about is how you lose HP when you run... even in towns! See, at first, it's a major problem since you have so little HP and you stop running when it goes 1/3 of the total HP. But yah, you stop caring when you have a massive amount of HP, but it still causes problems.

The one thing I did like about the game is the use of monster cards being used in battles to aide you... but it makes this hard-complicated game a little easier... too easy if you ask me. I mean, I use the same strategy to beat all the bosses. You poison them and lower all their stats while raising your party's stats and using a "recover HP every turn" technique. It's impossible to lose in this game at all.

As for graphics and music, those are pretty good, but you don't really seem to notice those things in a 2-D/3-D mixed environment. Except for the exception of seeing some grainy sprites here and there.

So Lunar is a game that you love, and that you would hate at the same time. It has a story to keep you going, until you reach that pitiful end. Now, I won't right that ending here, because that's a spoiler, but there's nothing to spoil. Believe me. It's like a two-minute ending that will piss you off, kinda like that Ashlee Simpson remix of LOVE.

Reviewer's Score: 6/10, Originally Posted: 02/23/06