Lunar: Eternal Blue: Difference between revisions

* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Jean, one of many things employed to make her seem foreign and exotic.

* [[The Atoner]]: {{spoiler|White Knight Leo}}, {{spoiler|Ghaleon}}, and {{spoiler|Master Lunn}}.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|In the "first" ending, Lucia returns to the Blue Star alone to continue her vigil in ensuring it becomes inhabitable again. The Epilogue is frankly not that much better; Hiro finds a way to the Blue Star to join her, but it seems almost certain that he will ''never'' return to Lunar to see any of his friends again, and that Lucia and he will be alone for the rest of his lifetime.}} [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|As far as he's concerned, it's worth it]].

* [[But Now I Must Go]]: Lucia. {{spoiler|Hiro finds a way to go with her in the [[Playable Epilogue]].}}

* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: Ronfar tries peeping at Lucia when she's trying out new clothes, and Hiro tries to stop him only to get [[Megaton Punch|clobbered along with him by the girls]]. In the remake, at least. In the original version he was just trying to get his share of the view. (Lucia, meanwhile, [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|has no idea why the other girls are angry]].)

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Ruby is possessive of Hiro and views Lucia as a rival for his affection early in the game.

* [[Corrupt Church]]: Althena's Chosen (a.k.a. Althena's Cult in the Sega CD version). Its members are more interested in personal gain than anything else, but the organization is widely tolerated (albeit with a lot of grumbling). {{spoiler|The Chosen turn out to be agents of [[Big Bad]] Zophar, though it appears the lower-ranked members are unaware of this.}}

* [[Creepy Cathedral]]: Pentagulia, the headquarters of Althena's Chosen, is a sort of combination town/cathedral which comes with an assortment of [[Ominous Pipe Organ]] BGM.

* [[Crutch Character]]: Lucia, early on.

* [[Dance Battler]]: Jean, {{spoiler|until she [[Took a Level In Badass|switches to martial arts]]. She still keeps her dance moves, though.}}

{{quote| "If there is a god of destiny, he is fond of plot twists...and so am I."}}

* [[Defeat Equals Friendship]]: All of Zophar's flunkies realize the error of their ways after they are defeated, except for the fake Althena, {{spoiler|Ghaleon because he was secretly helping the heroes all along}}, and Leo who he pretty much becomes an ally before you beat him.

** Hiro invokes this with {{spoiler|Ghaleon}} with the apparent intent of taking him on as a [[Sixth Ranger]], but [[Too Cool to Live|it's not to be]]. {{spoiler|Zophar's power is keeping him alive, and Ghaleon re-dies soon after betraying Zophar.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Did Not Get the Girl]]: In the first ending, Lucia returns to the Blue Star and leaves Hiro behind. In the Epilogue, Hiro finds a way to go to her.}}

* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: Story-wise, female Ruby plays much the same role in ''Lunar 2'' as male Nall does in ''Lunar 1''.

* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]: Hiro's devotion to Lucia. So much so, in fact, that the [[The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Cliches]] calls this trope [[Console RPG Cliches 1 to 24|the Hiro Rule]].

* [[Fake Difficulty]]: When they localized the Sega CD version of Eternal Blue, Working Designs added in a feature that [[Check Point Starvation|forced players to pay a certain amount of XP earned from battle to save the game]]. This feature was left out of the Eternal Blue Complete on the Playstation, and Working Designs acknowledged in the official strategy guide for the game that "it was much more annoying than challenging."

* [[Fashion Shop Fashion Show]]: Lucia gets put through a short one by the other female members of the party.

** The [[Big Bad]]: Zophar

** [[The Dragon]]: {{spoiler|Ghaleon}}

** The [[Dark Chick]]: Mauri ( {{spoiler|when she is under the influence of Zophar}})

** [[Sixth Ranger Traitor]]: Leo

** [[The Hero]]: Hiro

** [[The Chick]]: Lucia

* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: Some of the bosses seem to exist just so there can be a boss fight at the end of the dungeon. Of particular note is the Sega CD version's "Phantom Sentry" that shows up out of nowhere (there's no indication whatsoever that a boss fight is imminent), looks like a gun-slinging samurai (in a setting that otherwise [[Fantasy Gun Control|completely lacks firearms]]), and makes cryptic comments to Lucia before vanishing, never to be seen again... {{spoiler|Until the Epilogue, in which he returns and actually becomes important to the plot.}}

* [[Handsome Lech]]: Ronfar. He's a notorious womanizer, which wears on the nerves of his fellow party members.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Apparently being {{spoiler|dead for a thousand years}} gave {{spoiler|Ghaleon}} a lot of time to reconsider his past actions. So when he's {{spoiler|resurrected as Zophar's [[The Dragon|Dragon]]}}, he immediately begins subverting the [[Big Bad]]'s plot. First subtly, and then overtly, despite knowing he's [[Redemption Equals Death|guaranteed to die]] {{spoiler|again}} as a result.

** In the Sega-CD version, he's pretty explicitly playing both sides up until the last moment, going so far as to {{spoiler|kill the main character}} to try to [[spoiler:[[http://www.lunar-net.com/eb/screenshots.php?startingNo=495&endingNo=622&directoryNo=3&fileBegin=LUNAR<!-- 2020ETERNAL%20BLUE_&pageTitle=Ghaleons%20Crisis goad Lucia into giving him the secret to an actual resurrection.]]]] -->

* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: There is a book, which the player has access to within few minutes into the second game, that outlines the plot of the first game. It's also hard to look into the game at all without finding out about {{spoiler|Ghaleon}}.

* [[Magic Dance]]: Jean's special attacks.

** {{spoiler|Especially now that she has Althena's divine spark, Lucia is probably immortal and will in all likelihood greatly outlive Hiro; it's inferred that this is one of the reasons she returns to the Blue Star, as she is hesitant to watch him grow old and die (and she can't just make him immortal or resurrect him, remember - "there can be no new life without the destruction of the old"). [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Hiro goes to her anyway.]] }}

** This is also {{spoiler|part of the reason all versions of ''Silver Star'' happened in the first place - Althena could not bear to watch another Dragonmaster age and perish while she persisted eternally, and so chose mortality of her own free will and lived out the end of her life with Alex.}}

* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: Zophar.

{{quote| '''Zophar:''' "It's time to destroy... everything..."}}

* [[Oral Fixation Fixation]]: Ronfar.

* [[Playable Epilogue]]: Hmm... [[Bonus Dungeon|Bonus Dungeons]]!

** {{spoiler|Not really, if Lunar: Dragon Song is to be believed. The pink-haired Lucia was said to be (iirc) Althena's first incarnation.}}

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Ghaleon. Well, re-death in his case. An interesting example, sort of a combination of [[Heroic Sacrifice]] and a [[Double Subversion]] of [[Rewarded As a Traitor Deserves]]. ''At the same time.''}}

* [[Reverse Mole]]: {{spoiler|Ghaleon. Interestingly, in the original version of the first game, which this follows from, Nash pulled this on him, which is probably part of why he's so [[Genre Savvy]] about it.}}

* [[Sequel Hook]]: Lunar 2 has a fair number of these, what with {{spoiler|the revelations that there's a lot more backstory to the game than initially suggested and a lot of it is unexplored, Hiro going to live with Lucia, and then there's the matter of that big fortress on the Blue Star, which would sure make a ''lovely'' dungeon, wouldn't it.}} Lunar 3 was in various stages of development in the late 90s and very early 2000s, but then stalled out over legal disputes between management members. The hooks have been left dangling for over a decade in some cases, now.

* [[Series Continuity Error]]: In the remake. Vane and the Grindery are not where they were left at the end of ''Silver Star Story''/''Harmony'', but remain in the spots they occupy at the end of ''The Silver Star''.

* [[Wham Episode]]: {{spoiler|Midgame wham - The Althena Church is obviously corrupt, but it turns out to be the front for Zophar's world domination efforts. And it's effectively succeeded already. Lategame wham - Lucia is a destroyer after all, though unintentionally. If she uses Althena's power to destroy Zophar, it will un-create the world.}}

** {{spoiler|The first ending, in which Lucia decides to go back to the Blue Star and leave Hiro behind.}}

** Given that it's a thousand years later, and geography can change quite a bit in that amount of time, Caldor is highly likely ''gone'' by now. Especially seeing as the world maps no longer match up very well at all, and the area that roughly corresponds to where it used to be seems to be one massive glacier now.

** Shortly afterward, Lemina attempts to charge the village's inhabitants for getting rid of the monster. The other party members don't let her.

 

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