Game Arts in Bullshit

Game Arts is a video game studio in Japan. I wonder if anyone knows anything they've made? Grandia and Lunar. That's basically it. While I've barely seen Grandia because it didn't amuse me, I used to be a big fan of the Lunar series. Lunar is now one of the saddest series of all time. There is literally 3 remakes of the first game, Lunar the Silver Star, for a total of 4 different versions of the same game. That's all they do with it! I have not been anticipating a Lunar 3, but I've heard that it is something they've written down on a yellow sticky note somewhere.

Lunar is perhaps the best case against re-makes. You eventually just keep remaking the same shit over and over with the intention to appeal to some assumed expectations of a presumed, locked-in-till-death fan-base without doing anything of substance or merit. Eventually, they'll remake everything to a point where you're so bored of the last ones that you are already bored of the new one your first time. I call this the Lunar Threshold. To sum up, the 4 versions of Lunar 1 are as follows.

Lunar the Silver Star for the Sega CD
     For it's time, a hell of a game. It had voice acted and animated cut scenes when that sort of thing was impossible. The gameplay was unique, and the story was memorable. It had good music and it was fun. It had a cult following.

Lunar the Silver Star Story: Complete
     It was a bright, more refined version of the original. The gameplay was amped,  the animated and voiced cut scenes were impressive, and the story was expanded on. It was real fun too, and brought in more fans.

Lunar Legend for the Gameboy Advanced
     Obnoxious shonen bullshit for the fans and a sad attempt at cashing in on Lunar via a handheld. RPGs are not for handhelds. Fuck you. The gameplay was slow and boring. This one was probably meant to be cool because it had limit breaks like in Final Fantasy. It was probably a smaller game than the previous version.

Lunar: Silver Star Harmony for the PSP
     I wanted to give this one a fair chance until I saw what kind of bullshit they pulled. Typical anime shonen bullshit: Contrived and fan serviced until it was primed to burst. It's an older game redesigned to have some appeal to a new generation, which is alienating to the original generation who took an interest at the start. I can't say I saw any real effort put into this. It had nothing new that was worth seeing or hearing.

Another problem they  probably didn't foresee is due to the massive number of remakes, the replay value goes down exponentially for every new game! That's kinda funny. I am so tired of replaying Lunar 1 that you're not going to make it playable ever again; Not unless you do something really different like cross another genre.

Another problem is when you have new creators working on something old: do they get it enough to be able to be faithful to the spirit of the original? Star Trek fans might agree.