In This Thread I Explain Why This Game Isn't Canon.
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2019 7:03 am
Greetings,
Lunar: Dragon Song is not canon and here's why:
It goes against all pre-established lore of the series. Everything else but Dragon Song establishes that beastmen were the oppressed peoples of Lunar and that the Goddess Althena has never really been in love before.
In order for Lunar: Dragon Song to be canon the bare minimum that would need to be true is that the existence of an independent citystate/kingdom with a majority population of beastmen existed at around the time the game took place and that Althena loses her memories of her life as a mortal between incarnations. However, not only are neither of these facts true the exact opposite is true and supported in multiple places throughout the series. Since none of the conditions required for DS to be canon are established or referenced in the previous games or other Lunar materials, not even in DS, there is no way this game can be canon.
For a game we universally view as a giant -Fatal Hopper- you to the fandom Ubisoft could have been petty enough to establish these things in the game. They could have even written in that there was a conspiracy to cover up the existence of the beastman kingdom and that forgetting Jian is what caused Althena to decide to retain her memories across incarnations thereafter. They didn't. And since they didn't (a mercy) we can say it's not canon.
So yeah, it's not canon.
I know my spouse, Kizyr, is the Dante of this fandom (if you don't understand what I mean when I refer to Kizyr as our Dante just click this link) and that he says it's canon but not only do I not care he is also wrong.
Further more Kiz's continued insistence that DS is canon upsets me and he knows it upsets me and he is trolling.
And he learned it from me.
So this is technically my fault.
Anyway, it's not canon and I could and should end the thread here because this game really doesn't deserve any legitimacy. But instead I'm going to resolve any arguments that might crop up from the trolls and fools who keep insisting in this obvious lie with a simple compromise:
Dragon Song is not canon in the current Lunar universe. What Dragon Song is is not a prequel to the other Lunar games but rather the first game in a Lunar AU series that will never exist.
Lunar: Dragon Song is not canon and here's why:
It goes against all pre-established lore of the series. Everything else but Dragon Song establishes that beastmen were the oppressed peoples of Lunar and that the Goddess Althena has never really been in love before.
In order for Lunar: Dragon Song to be canon the bare minimum that would need to be true is that the existence of an independent citystate/kingdom with a majority population of beastmen existed at around the time the game took place and that Althena loses her memories of her life as a mortal between incarnations. However, not only are neither of these facts true the exact opposite is true and supported in multiple places throughout the series. Since none of the conditions required for DS to be canon are established or referenced in the previous games or other Lunar materials, not even in DS, there is no way this game can be canon.
For a game we universally view as a giant -Fatal Hopper- you to the fandom Ubisoft could have been petty enough to establish these things in the game. They could have even written in that there was a conspiracy to cover up the existence of the beastman kingdom and that forgetting Jian is what caused Althena to decide to retain her memories across incarnations thereafter. They didn't. And since they didn't (a mercy) we can say it's not canon.
So yeah, it's not canon.
I know my spouse, Kizyr, is the Dante of this fandom (if you don't understand what I mean when I refer to Kizyr as our Dante just click this link) and that he says it's canon but not only do I not care he is also wrong.
Further more Kiz's continued insistence that DS is canon upsets me and he knows it upsets me and he is trolling.
And he learned it from me.
So this is technically my fault.
Anyway, it's not canon and I could and should end the thread here because this game really doesn't deserve any legitimacy. But instead I'm going to resolve any arguments that might crop up from the trolls and fools who keep insisting in this obvious lie with a simple compromise:
Dragon Song is not canon in the current Lunar universe. What Dragon Song is is not a prequel to the other Lunar games but rather the first game in a Lunar AU series that will never exist.