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Kid Fenris



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:51 am    Post subject: The Lunar II that never was Reply with quote

Ah, the Lunar games. Perhaps they’re now archaic, but the first and best two introduced many a sheltered American kid to the ways of Japanese RPGs, including that honored convention of setting a sequel hundreds of years after the first game. Lunar II did exactly that, and abandoned most of the original Lunar’s characters in the process.

That wasn’t always the plan. GameArts’ original ideas for Lunar II: Eternal Blue called for the main cast from Lunar: The Silver Star to return, older and perhaps as supporting characters. That’s what some early concept illustrations from Softbank’s Lunar I and II artbook show, anyway. I’ve never seen these online anywhere, so I decided to scan them and finally get some use out of the book.



Alex, the hero, was a kid with a harp and a fur hat in the first game. For the second, he became a lumberjack and grew one hell of a mullet, while his passive love interest, Luna, started wearing makeup.



Mia looks a lot like she did in the first game. Oh well.



Alex’s fat, worthless friend Ramus, who stayed in the party for about five minutes in the first Lunar, got a monocle and cigar for Lunar II. From the look of it, Jessica didn’t change much at all.



The book also has illustrations of Nash and Kyle, but they looked exactly like they did in the first game. You can see Kyle drunk and passed out in this storyboard shot. I don’t know if it’s a planned scene from Lunar II or an unused movie sequence from The Silver Star.



Finally, I scanned this. It could be a discarded idea for a mini-game, but that's...unlikely.

If anyone’s interested, I'll scan some of the production art featuring Lunar II’s actual characters. Lucia, the heroine, went through a bunch of redesigns, and there’s a drawing or two of the beast-people Leo and Mauri as centaurs. Oh, and Ruby’s human form, which I don’t believe we ever saw in the game.


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PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow very interesting find. I wonder what made them decide to totally scrap the original characters and make a sequel set 100 years in the future.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd like to see that stuff. Concept art is always fun to look at.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I really would have preferred a direct sequel.

Also Dragon Song was so bad Sad
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The chick in the last pic laying down appears to have a labia hanging out the side of her suit. Don't blame me. I didn't draw it.

-Rob
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

rbudrick wrote:
The chick in the last pic laying down appears to have a labia hanging out the side of her suit. Don't blame me. I didn't draw it.

-Rob


If you examine the position of her derriere, you'll see that's not really possible. Not that there's anything wrong with a little labia.
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MathUser2929



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've seen the human ruby before, and in different recolorings also.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

deespence2929 wrote:
I've seen the human ruby before, and in different recolorings also.


So, that WAS a labia, after all, was it?
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AirRaid



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:03 am    Post subject: Re: The Lunar II that never was Reply with quote

Very interesting stuff, Kid Fenris, thanks!

I wish you could find some stuff on Phantasy Star IV: Return of Alis for Sega CD.... The PSIV that never was.....
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rbudrick
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 4:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Smeg wrote:
rbudrick wrote:
The chick in the last pic laying down appears to have a labia hanging out the side of her suit. Don't blame me. I didn't draw it.

-Rob


If you examine the position of her derriere, you'll see that's not really possible. Not that there's anything wrong with a little labia.


Oh, I see. Ever see one of those pics where if you look at it one way it's a duck, but if you look at it another way it's a frog or something?

Well anyway, if you look at it a certain way it seems like the front are her hips are facing the front, not laying on them. That's the perspective I saw, but now that you mention it, yeah, she is laying front down.

-Rob
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:04 am    Post subject: Re: The Lunar II that never was Reply with quote

Kid Fenris wrote:

If anyone’s interested, I'll scan some of the production art featuring Lunar II’s actual characters. Lucia, the heroine, went through a bunch of redesigns, and there’s a drawing or two of the beast-people Leo and Mauri as centaurs. Oh, and Ruby’s human form, which I don’t believe we ever saw in the game.


Im very interested in seeing more, iv been wanting to see production art for a long time and havent found any
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

rbudrick wrote:
The chick in the last pic laying down appears to have a labia hanging out the side of her suit.-Rob

a labium. Ahem.
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rbudrick
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 11:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tongueman wrote:
rbudrick wrote:
The chick in the last pic laying down appears to have a labia hanging out the side of her suit.-Rob

a labium. Ahem.


Coming from someone named Tongueman, it figures.

Because, umm, that means he speaks well. Yeah.

-Rob
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