History VideoGame / LunarEternalBlue

* ''Lunar: Eternal Blue'' (no numeral) for UsefulNotes/SegaCD, English version released by Creator/WorkingDesigns
* ''Lunar 2: Eternal Blue'' for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn and its UpdatedRerelease on UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation}}, ''Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete'', English version released by Creator/WorkingDesigns

* FakeKing: The "Goddess Althena" is clearly not who she seems. [[spoiler:The ending of the remakes of the first game make clear why any presented Goddess would have to be fake; the original UsefulNotes/SegaCD game's ending did not.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The battle against [[UsefulNotes/IdSuperegoAndEgo Mauri's id]][[note]]For reference, libido is what powers the id in Freudian psychology[[/note]]. [[https://youtu.be/0vUqMI-G2_w?t=287 At one point,]] the true [[JustForPun head]] emerges, resembling a pair of testicles.

* TheAtoner: The majority of the antagonists come to see the error of their ways, like [[spoiler: White Knight Leo]] and [[spoiler:Master Lunn]]. [[spoiler: Ghaleon]] is an independently motivated atoner, though his role as TheMole obscures it.

* BittersweetEnding: [[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. As far as he's concerned, it's worth it.]]

* DefeatEqualsFriendship: 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.

* DuelBoss: [[spoiler: Hiro vs Leo, Jean vs Lunn and in the epilogue, Hiro vs the star dragon which happens to be the very last fight in the game.]]

* EldritchAbomination: Zophar, who spends most of the game as an ObviouslyEvil voice. When first seen, he seems to be some kind of giant stone cuttlefish monster, taller than the sky, with dragon tentacles and a face. The relationship between this form, the much more compact "lair" that he made for himself, and the bizarrely feminine humanoids fought to "kill" him [[spoiler: after he takes Althena's power from Lucia]] is never elaborated upon.

* FakeKing: The "Goddess Althena" is clearly not who she seems. [[spoiler: The ending of the remakes of the first game make clear why any presented Goddess would have to be fake; the original UsefulNotes/SegaCD game's ending did not.]]

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* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: 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 [[FantasyGunControl 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.]]

** [[spoiler: Leo...]] He really does want to do good, but discovers that sometimes [[ToBeLawfulOrGood the law stands in the way of doing the right thing]]. Thus, he ends up in the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor - at least until he realizes [[spoiler:how he's been duped and joins Hiro's side for good late in the game.]]
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: White Knight Leo. This is the reason why he flip-flops between Heel and Face. By the time he's mostly sided with Hiro, he's had to accept that the Althena he served was a fake goddess, put into position by the real dark god, Zophar, and that the woman he's been trying to slay, Lucia "the destroyer", was ''actually'' carrying out the will of the ''real'' goddess Althena by trying to protect the world from Zophar.]] It's a tough pill to swallow.
** Lemina also has one when she realizes that [[spoiler: Borgan's hellish neo-Vane]] is in some ways [[NotSoDifferentRemark not all that different from what she was trying to create in Vane]].
* HeroicBSOD: White Knight Leo, who, after finding out that he's a [[spoiler: servant for Zophar]], has one that lasts until the final act of the game, at which point he becomes permanently playable.
* HeroicSecondWind: Near the end of the game, [[NearVillainVictory Zophar's victory looks certain]]. The party is {{depower}}ed and in some cases demoralized, when [[spoiler: Ghaleon]] shows up to finish them off. That's when the heroes rise up and re-empower themselves based solely on their own inner strength.
* HilariousOuttakes: In the Playstation remake, as before, your reward for watching the entire credits roll is these. Of particular note is Jean and Lemina's [=VAs=] having several ThatCameOutWrong moments, [[spoiler: Ghaleon]] and Lunn's actors [[LargeHam hamming it up]] to extreme levels (even moreso than they do in the actual game, that is), and Zophar's actor messing around with the soundboard.

* LargeHam: [[spoiler: Ghaleon]] is at least as hammy as before, if not more so.

* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: In this game, Ghaleon, the main villain of the first, becomes the dragon of Zophar]].

* PowerFist: [[spoiler: Jean's weapon of choice after her [[TookALevelInBadass costume change]].]]

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Ghaleon. Well, re-death in his case. An interesting example, sort of a combination of HeroicSacrifice and a DoubleSubversion of RewardedAsATraitorDeserves. ''At the same time.'']]

* SecretIdentity: When forced to break his vows, Leo becomes [[spoiler: ''The Amazing Mystere!'']] to correct things. His PaperThinDisguise creates a tiny bit of PlausibleDeniability, since he knows that he can't help the heroes openly without risking the lives of others. But it's mostly just PlayedForLaughs.
* SequelHook: 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.]] 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 ever since, and ''Lunar 2'' remains the furthest-forward game chronologically in the series.

* StrikeMeDown: Zophar goads Lucia into using Althena's power to destroy him, [[spoiler: since that would also destroy Lunar and kill everyone on it.]]

* [[TeachHimAnger Teach Her Anger]]: This trope is [[spoiler: Jean]]'s backstory in a nutshell. [[spoiler:She was kidnapped by a cult of assassins, where an EvilMentor taught her to fight, to feel nothing but anger, and to channel her rage into a killing instinct. Eventually she realized what an awful thing she had learned, and was so dead-set against following her master's teachings anymore that she turned into a [[ActualPacifist pacifist]]. In fact, when Hiro meets her, she is ashamed after she loses control and opens a can of whoopass on a monster to save her new friends. Over the course of the game, she becomes more of a MartialPacifist as she [[CharacterDevelopment learns that she can use her strength to help people, not to kill]].]]
* ThatLiarLies: The party's reaction to Zophar explaining that [[spoiler: the power of Althena could only defeat him by destroying the world in the process]] is to, of course, accuse the GodOfEvil of lying. They learn the hard way however that he was telling the truth.

* UnwittingPawn: Hiro's party to certain degree. [[spoiler: Zophar allowed Hiro's party to humanize Lucia enough so that she could not bring herself to cast the ultimate spell on Zophar, which would have destroyed Lunar as well. Zophar took advantage of this and captured Lucia, stealing her power to make himself even stronger.]]