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GameArts brings Lunar: Silver Star Story to the Kindle

If you love Lunar so much that you purchase each and every incarnation of it, then you should take the time to head over to Amazon soon. GameArts, the company responsible for every Lunar game, has brought the first Lunar: Silver Star Story to North America. Lunar: Silver Star Story – The Call of the Wind is a $7.95 Kindle exclusive…

Spoiler Alert: Lunar Silver Star Harmony

There are times where a game is released where you really want to know what happened but you either can’t or don’t want to buy or play it. To help you out, Gamertell offers Spoiler Alert. We’ll play the games and tell you what happened so you don’t have to spend, or waste, your time on it. This week, we’re looking at Lunar: Silver Star Harmony, the PSP RPG from XSeed. Prepare to be spoiled.

Gamertell Review: Lunar: Silver Star Harmony for PSP

Simply put, Lunar is a classic game and each incarnation of it is appreciated by RPG fans for what it offers. Lunar: Silver Star Harmony isn’t absolutely perfect, but it is an admirable portable remake that is worth picking up. All of the enhancements nearly make it look and feel like a whole new game.

If it weren’t for the new introductory segment, I’d probably consider the PSP adaptation to be the best yet. However, that brief expository sequence and tutorial very nearly ruins the whole story, and that offense is quite difficult to overlook and forgive…

Limited edition of Lunar: Silver Star Harmony comes with a soundtrack

XSEED has announced that there is going to be both standard and limited editions of its forthcoming PSP game, Lunar: Silver Star Harmony. As you can guess, the standard edition of Lunar: Silver Star Harmony will only include the game and cost $29.99. The limited edition will cost $39.99 and include a few extras. Both versions will be out in 2010 and, if you go by Amazon, they’ll be out February 2, 2010.

The highlight of the Lunar: Silver Star Harmony limited edition is the soundtrack. The official press release doesn’t state if it’ll be a full soundtrack, but any soundtrack is better than no soundtrack. Besides, you’ve probably lost the soundtrack that came with the PlayStation edition of Lunar: Silver Star Story. It also comes with 13 bromide trading cards featuring the female stars of Lunar in various outfits and fanservice poses.

It could be a little early to place a preorder now…

Lunar: The Silver Star is being rereleased again

If you didn’t play the original Lunar any of the three times it was already released in North America, you’re in luck. There’s a very good chance that it could be coming to your PSP very soon. A Japanese enhanced port of Lunar: The Silver Star, being called Lunar: Harmony of Silver Star, will be released in Fall 2009.

Not too long ago, during an RPGamer interview, XSEED’s Ken Berry mentioned that the company was working on “an enhanced remake of a classic PSone RPG.” Siliconera and Joystiq are now both speculating that Lunar: Harmony of Silver Star could be that remake, and I definitely agree.

After all, practically every port of the original Lunar has already been released in the US. We received the original Lunar: The Silver Star on the Sega CD back in 1993. Then in 1999, the PlayStation version called Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete was released with some very nice commemorative goodies. Lunar Legend, the GBA release, was the last to make it to the US in 2002. The only versions North America didn’t get were the 1996 Lunar: Silver Star Story Sega Saturn release…