Announcement about Lunar novels

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Announcement about Lunar novels

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Game Arts wrote: April 6, 2011

Announcement about the novel series "LUNAR: Silver Star Story"

It is with deep regret we must inform you that we, GAME ARTS, have decided to cease the production of Vol. 2 through 4 of the novelized LUNAR: Silver Star Story due to the circumstances beyond our control.
To all the customers who were waiting for those releases, we sincerely apologize that we fell short of your expectation, and we would like to thank you most warmly for your continued support.

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:(

Read: No one bought the 1st novel, so we're not doing the others. :/
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I have to be honest...
...I didn't much care for the first novel. KF
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Kizyr wrote:I have to be honest...
...I didn't much care for the first novel. KF
The novel itself or the translation?

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This news makes me sad...so very sad. :cry:
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Crap. :(
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DevNall wrote:
Kizyr wrote:I have to be honest...
...I didn't much care for the first novel. KF
The novel itself or the translation?
I mostly had in mind the translation. However, it's hard to say because I don't think the translation was bad, I just think the material wasn't something that lent itself to the type of translation effort it was given (namely, spanning it across one book per volume instead of one for all four, and adding in a ton of extra description). So the ratio of substance to words was pretty low.

The novel itself is a pretty light read. It was certainly tough for me because SSS Vol. 1 was the first novel I ever read in another language. For that reason, and because it's Lunar, it has a special place for me. But beyond that, it didn't strike me as something that warrants having a series of four special e-book releases like they were initially planning.

Plus the storyline is really weird if you're so used to the original TSS or SSS storyline. KF
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Does anyone know why they cancelled these exactly? Is it because not enough of us bought them or something? That really sucks because I was hoping to read the rest of them... Are there any fan translations out there for the other books besides the summaries on the site?

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