Lunar: Eternal Blue

Lunar: Eternal Blue
North American Sega CD box art
DeveloperGame Arts
Publishers
DirectorsYōichi Miyaji
Hiroyuki Koyama
ProducersKazutoyo Ishii
Yōichi Miyaji
DesignerMasayuki Shimada
ProgrammersHiroyuki Koyama
Naozumi Honma
Masao Ishikawa
ArtistsMasatoshi Azumi
Toshio Akashi
Toshiyuki Kubooka
WritersKei Shigema
Takashi Hino
Toshio Akashi
ComposerNoriyuki Iwadare
SeriesLunar
PlatformsSega CD, Sega Saturn, PlayStation
ReleaseSega CD
  • JP: December 22, 1994
  • NA: September 1995
Saturn
  • JP: July 23, 1998
PlayStation
  • JP: May 27, 1999
  • NA: December 15, 2000
GenreRole-playing
ModeSingle-player

Lunar: Eternal Blue is a 1994 role-playing video game developed by Game Arts in association with Studio Alex for the Sega CD as the sequel to Lunar: The Silver Star. The game was originally released in December 1994 in Japan, and later in North America in September 1995 by Working Designs. Eternal Blue expanded the story and gameplay of its predecessor, and made more use of the Sega CD's hardware, including more detailed graphics, longer, more elaborate animated cutscenes, and more extensive use of voice acting. Critics were mostly pleased with the title, giving particular merit to the game's English translation and further expansion of the role-playing game genre in CD format.

Set one thousand years after the events of The Silver Star, the game follows the adventure of Hiro, a young explorer and adventurer who meets Lucia, visitor from the far-away Blue Star, becoming entangled in her mission to stop Zophar, an evil, all-powerful being, from destroying the world. During their journey across the world of Lunar, Hiro and Lucia are joined by an ever-expanding cast of supporting characters, including some from its predecessor. Eternal Blue was remade in 1998 as Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete, published by Kadokawa Shoten for the Sega Saturn and PlayStation, with the latter version localized and published in North America by Working Designs. The PlayStation version was later re-released on PlayStation Network for PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation Vita in Japan in September 2015.

An enhanced version of Eternal Blue Complete is included alongside Silver Star Story Complete in the Lunar Remastered Collection, was released by GungHo Online Entertainment in April 2025 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One.