Lunar: The Silver Star has seen several remakes over the years, but the last time the series went portable, in Lunar: Dragon Song, it flopped commercially and critically. Regardless, Game Arts had remade the original Lunar again, and this time for PSP, as Lunar: Silver Star Harmony; as it should, this version hews closely to the PlayStation’s Silver Star Story Complete, with all of that game’s excellent, animated cut-scenes. But other than that, from the overworld maps to the backgrounds, the game has been remade, effectively recapturing all the things that made the original so good (and also retaining a few of the things that made it so frustrating).
The writing is more subdued, though it still tries to be funny — you’ll read the occasional anachronistic line about a character using a phone or something else ridiculous to try and get a laugh. But the team at XSeed excised most of the pop-culture references for a more straightforward translation.