Lunar: Dragon Song

Painfully simplistic

Reviewed by dholcombe on January 03, 2008  |  report this review

This RPG is painfully simplistic. Unfortunately this is the only game in the Lunar series I've ever played. I hear the others are better. As you play through this game you will battle beast men, vile tribe members, and the occasional dragon. Touch screen controls aren't well utilized and you have to do a lot of walking back and forth through areas you have already been through. This just makes the game longer and not more fun. By the way...you walk SLOW. There are two battle modes...during one you collect items, during the other you can get XP. You cannot get XP and items from the same battle. Again all this does is make the game longer. There is not really any other difference between the two modes. Combat is turn based and you cannot target a specific enemy. It's random.

The only way to earn money is to run errands from town to town...again painfully slow. That's the theme of this game. Slow paced repetitive grinding. The story isn't that bad, but it's just too little story for too much work. This is the only RPG I've ever taken back to the store and sold after completing it. I usually keep all my RPG's and replay them or portions of them. All around, one of the worst games I've managed to stick with long enough to complete, but not so bad I quit before it was over. Not recommended