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Looks like the book is available to buy here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0992926009/
Probably because of Dicktor Ireland.Sonic# wrote:I'll be interested to hear about the quality of the book. It's self-published, so I admit to being a little skeptical.
I wonder why the redaction happened?
What?Alunissage wrote:By the way, most of the Lunar stuff seems to be the interviewer asking various people (who aren't in a position to know the answer) why the Phantom Sentry wasn't in EBC. Kind of an odd focus, really. Also, that scanned page with questions on Lunar 3 is strictly a developer's theory that maybe it became Magic School -- but it's clear enough that it's speculation with no more actual data than anyone else has. Honestly, the interviewer is kind of amateurish, though maybe there's more context for why he asks the questions he does on his site. I gotta wonder why he cares so much about the office layout of Game Arts, for example -- he got drawings from two or three people on this.
Sometime this year I'll try to transcribe the Lunar-relevant parts.
I love this! While, like me, I expect the designer just went for the odd pistol because he thought the marksman seemed cool, I guess if you were playfully going for the extreme, you could note that the figures connected with the Blue Star (Lucia, Star Dragon) maintain some of the old technology from "Earth" there. Likely unintentional, but still fun.Alunissage wrote:Yeah, I'd described him originally as a gunslinger, but must've edited that out before posting. That was what made it truly random to me. Though perhaps it's of a piece with Lucia having spells like Napalm Shot and Plasma Rain and other things that don't fit in with the usual Lunar spells.
That would make so much sense... except, have you seen the intro of Lunar 2?Temzin wrote: I guess if you were playfully going for the extreme, you could note that the figures connected with the Blue Star (Lucia, Star Dragon) maintain some of the old technology from "Earth" there. Likely unintentional, but still fun.
Actually, I've always figured that was intentional, that Lucia's powers all have high-tech (and destructive) names. After all, sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.Temzin wrote:I love this! While, like me, I expect the designer just went for the odd pistol because he thought the marksman seemed cool, I guess if you were playfully going for the extreme, you could note that the figures connected with the Blue Star (Lucia, Star Dragon) maintain some of the old technology from "Earth" there. Likely unintentional, but still fun.Alunissage wrote:Yeah, I'd described him originally as a gunslinger, but must've edited that out before posting. That was what made it truly random to me. Though perhaps it's of a piece with Lucia having spells like Napalm Shot and Plasma Rain and other things that don't fit in with the usual Lunar spells.
It's not that far off. The Japanese names for her spells are similar to the US ones: Spark Cannon, Satellite Bomb, Homing Cannon, Atomic Burn. And I usually assumed that the carvings in the opening are metaphorical, scaled to the technology actually known. But even if not, Althena's spell against Zophar was definitely not using a sword or bow.jay_are wrote:Seems the people of the Blue Star fought with swords and arrows.
Napalm shot is obviously the wrong name for that spell, I don't see anyone fighting Zophar with that type of weapon...
That is certainly possible. However, art done by anyone after the event tends to include the dressings of that culture. Hence art depicting Jesus as white and in medieval garb.Seems the people of the Blue Star fought with swords and arrows.
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