I picked up Lunar Lux while it was on sale w/ Coromon as a bundle. Admittedly, I was going to just tag this in the bundle and say, 'maybe later I'll play it.' After finding myself between games, I decided to try it out. Easily my best boredom choice in a long time.

I love this game. I love the story, the art, the combat, the characters. I really am impressed with this game. Easily one of my favorite games this year.

Enough gushing, time to actually talk about the game. This game is inspired by Megaman Starforce/ Battle Network and what feels like Undertale based on some segments of combat. I didn't think I could deal with another turn based game, but I am sold with the DODGE or SHIELD mechanics (instead of just getting hit by a dude, you could spend shields to block quick time events or dodge bullets). Active skills (your attacks) can vary from little to no skill based inputs to being input intensive (mash A). Support skills are drawn from a player picked stack and you are given 3 choices from that stack. Support Skills can easily turn the tide of the battle moreso than the Active Skill itself (don't sleep on invincible for a turn!).

The characters you interact with are entertaining and don't fall flat. The Raine squad in particular are very cool (especially Raine herself!). I was surprised by how much character development you can get out of a short game like this. Very impressive!

I must be honest, I had a few game crashes where I lost progress. I would think this is more of an issue with running the game on a Steam Deck (maybe some strange Linux only problems) but it didn't happen enough for me to be super upset about it and try to fix it. To the best of my knowledge, it was only having weird crashes during a battle (even during a boss fight!). I don't think this is widespread enough for the Developer to come back and try to find such a weird bug but take that as you will.

I chose to play the game on normal, all the way to the end. I do not recommend trying to play it on hard or legend, as some of the fights DURING the story is guaranteed to cause rage (more on this later). There isn't much of an incentive to change your difficulty til POSTGAME anyways, so I would strongly recommend to stick to Normal. Why bring difficulty up? It's your choice if you want to make your life miserable. Well, I would almost say this whole game is very plesant, until ONE particular fight.

The Developer was being cute when he made this fight, I don't want to spoil anything about it. I will warn you, do NOT think that you will steamroll the entire game without getting filtered. If you find yourself going to Maganese or whatever that place is called, pump your brakes and come back til you know you can beat some a**.

CosmicNobab Games, if you read this review, I NEED LUNAR LUX 2: ELECTRIC BOGALOO. Don't you decide that the 'internet is just too much,' and that you 'just can't' because I will find you. XOXO

has a lot more content than i thought, i enjoy the battle strategies and exploring for extras in every single different area sends me without fail