How many versions of Lunar: Eternal Blue are there?
Four releases, two genuinely different games, and a twenty-five-year gap in the middle.
Eternal Blue was remade once, thoroughly, and then left alone for a quarter century. The Mega-CD original (1994) and Eternal Blue Complete (Saturn 1998, PlayStation 1999) differ in systems, film, and dungeon design; everything since is the PlayStation version, restored. The short tree makes the collector's question simpler than Silver Star's, and the answer more pointed: the original had no second life until 2025.
THE TREE
1994 to 2025
1 · Eternal Blue (Mega-CD)
December 22, 1994 (JP) · September 1995 (NA). Random encounters, the Magic Experience system, sixty animated sequences, and the bonus mini-CD in Japanese copies. The version re-released only once in thirty years, on Japan's Mega Drive Mini 2 (2022).
2 · Eternal Blue Complete (Saturn)
July 23, 1998 (JP only). The remake: visible enemies, no overworld battles, every monster redrawn, dungeons cut (four) and added, and about thirty-five longer animated sequences replacing the original's sixty shorter ones. Two discs where the original used one.
3 · Eternal Blue Complete (PlayStation)
May 27, 1999 (JP) · December 15, 2000 (NA). Three discs, the Saturn remake carried over with additional endgame material, and Working Designs' most elaborate box: cloth map, Lucia's pendant, character standees, soundtrack, and a hardcover manual that walks the game's first act.
4 · Remastered Collection
April 18, 2025. The PlayStation version restored beside its sibling: widescreen or Classic presentation, a new English cast (Lucia's story re-voiced a generation on), and Kubooka art on the physical cover. Eternal Blue's first new edition since 2000.
WHAT THE REMAKE CHANGED
Complete, examinedSystems traded
Out: random encounters and Magic Experience. In: visible enemies, the first game's cleaner spell lists, and menus rebuilt to Silver Star Story's standard. The remake plays like its sibling; the original plays like nothing else in the series.
The film, reframed
Fewer, longer sequences, with the minor character introductions of 1994 cut entirely. A planned animated musical number for Lucia, mirroring Luna's boat song, was dropped in production: the remake's most famous ghost.