10 Worst RPG Video Games Of All Time

Those of us in Europe may not have ever heard of the Lunar RPG series before because it never came to our part of the world despite some decent success during 90s on the likes of the Sega CD and GameGear. The final game in the series, Lunar: Dragon Song, is the only entry we’ve ever had. Disheartening because, even after a ten year wait since the previous game, it absolutely sucked.

Lunar: Dragon Song goes the total opposite way to games like Quest 64 and, in an effort to mix up the formula, innovates in ways that nobody wants. The most painful of these is admonishing the player for sprinting by making them take damage. Sure, maybe I could understand that there should be a punishment for avoiding battles in the overworld but this also applies to, say, the hallway of your local inn. Is there carpet covered in upturned thumb-tacks?

Maybe we wouldn’t be running away from enemies if your battle system wasn’t an uncomfortable mess. Dragon Quest II, twenty years earlier, let me select a specific target out of all those on screen so why can’t you, Lunar: Dragon Song?

Further features include saving dev time by turning town exploration into literally a map that you select the building you want to enter, a total lack of voice acting and animations that cause the game to lag.

You know what Japan? You can keep this one.