Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: Action RPG
Release Date: 10/12/2010? (NA)
Publisher: Natsume
MSRP: $29.99
ESRB: E10+
English Trailer
Nintendo Power: 8.0/10.0
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Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals |OT| A New Look for Lufia
- Thread starter Volcynika
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Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: Action RPG
Release Date: 10/12/2010? (NA)
Publisher: Natsume
MSRP: $29.99
ESRB: E10+
English Trailer
Nintendo Power: 8.0/10.0
Lumpy Onion
Member
Can't wait to play this. If only for the wonderful soundtrack for my nostalgia fix. Its also a nice change to see something like this that tries to be more than the same game in a prettier package.
Dark Octave
Banned
-Real time combat.
-Final Fantasy 8, 10, 12 and 13 looking characters.
-Good but different style of music (in the trailer anyway).
Just a little worried, that's all.
-Final Fantasy 8, 10, 12 and 13 looking characters.
-Good but different style of music (in the trailer anyway).
Just a little worried, that's all.
Vyse The Legend
Member
What did jGAF think of this? Duckroll?
I loved the original, but I'm not sure how I feel about this remake.
I loved the original, but I'm not sure how I feel about this remake.
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
Oh God, this looks like an abomination
Wyndstryker
Member
The whole change to action rpg doesn't seem to sit very well with me. But I'll give it a shot since I loved lufia 2 on the snes. i just hope the puzzles are just as good as the originals
btw who's the character artist anyways? i swear i've seen the style somewhere.
btw who's the character artist anyways? i swear i've seen the style somewhere.
Segata Sanshiro
Member
'Aeana' ... 'Volcynika'...kiryogi said:
Little blue slime... guy in coat rocking out with cock firmly in the out position...
kiryogi, I say this out of concern. You need to stop doing those 38 hour Phantasy Star sessions. Your eyes are fucked up.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I've only played the GBC game at any length, but it was one of my favorite games. I'll be keeping an eye on this...
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
Member
I never played the original, so I'm definitely interested in this.
I can understand why fans would be a little upset with this remake, or re-imagining. But it looks like the game is still pretty good on its own.
I can understand why fans would be a little upset with this remake, or re-imagining. But it looks like the game is still pretty good on its own.
Freyjadour
Member
Way too many games.
MrBelmontvedere
Member
Volcynika said:
*sigh* is there no space left in this world for turn based battles?
hosannainexcelsis
Member
MrBelmontvedere said:*sigh* is there no space left in this world for turn based battles?
We'll always have Dragon Quest.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
Can't wait.
Was I the only one that liked Lufia 1 more than 2?
Was I the only one that liked Lufia 1 more than 2?
Hours Left
Member
I'm still feeling very conflicted about this game.
I'll put it this way: don't go into this looking for a Lufia 2 remake. Honestly, it might as well be a totally new game with the same basic story and characters (a few of which have totally different personalities). As a regular old action RPG, it's pretty good. Combat is decent, dungeons are good, music is obviously awesome since it's all taken from Lufia 2.Boney said:
But it's its own thing.
FrostuTheNinja
Member
Just read that the combat is real time.
Purchased.
Purchased.
Hours Left
Member
Why they didn't have the mental wherewithal to actually make this into a brand new installment or a new IP is beyond me. I feel they are trying to reel people in with nostalgia, and it cheapens the series IMO.Aeana said:
IlliterateBookworm
Neo Member
A bit conflicted over this, but will purchase nonetheless.
It's developed by Neverland still, right? The guys that did Lodoss and "HOT STUFF COMIN' YOUR WAY!" Shining Force right?
I doubt it'll reach the nuttiness factor of Lodoss and SF as you wade through piles and piles of monsters with seven or eight digit numbers flashing all over the place, but as long as it still has the same blend of puzzles and fighting I'll be okay.
I still have yet to see anyone man up and deliver a game as wild and as hardcore nerdy as Lodoss was for a portable system. That'd just make my day.
It's developed by Neverland still, right? The guys that did Lodoss and "HOT STUFF COMIN' YOUR WAY!" Shining Force right?
I doubt it'll reach the nuttiness factor of Lodoss and SF as you wade through piles and piles of monsters with seven or eight digit numbers flashing all over the place, but as long as it still has the same blend of puzzles and fighting I'll be okay.
I still have yet to see anyone man up and deliver a game as wild and as hardcore nerdy as Lodoss was for a portable system. That'd just make my day.
Dark Octave
Banned
Does it make sense that Lufia and Lufia 2 are among my favorite RPGs of all times, despite only playing into about four or five hours into each one?
Pureauthor
Member
Gunloc said:
The series is (was?) already dead anyway.
Gunloc said:
Speaking as a guy who plays a lot of new IPs, this move got the game a lot more attention that it would have received otherwise.
Anyway: as a Neverland-on-DS fan with no prior attachments to the series, I'm on board with this game.
The last PR I got said the release date is 10/19. I was just confused in the last thread when I asked if it was out yet because it seemed that all of a sudden there were a lot of opinions about its combat.
Scythesurge
Member
Wow I didn't even know this existed until right now. I really liked Lufia 2 back in the day, so I'm curious how this game is.
No turn based battles is kinda a turn off though.
No turn based battles is kinda a turn off though.
Hours Left
Member
But there was no need to dig up the corpse.Pureauthor said:
It could of got almost the same press if it had been a new installment in the Lufia series instead of a "reimagining" of the most highly praised entry of the series. As Aeana said, it's so vastly different than the original Lufia II that it's almost unrecognizable, so I still don't see why they chose this route other than to play on people's nostalgia for the game.
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
Maxim in a leather jacket!
Dekar with pink hair!?
I'm loving this game already. :lol
Anyway just picked up my copy so uhh
First off everything is way different. Lufia 2 vanilla had this long build-up where townspeople were all "boy there sure are more monsters wandering around these days." and then eventually Gades and the gang showed up to wreck shit. In this version with five minutes Gades has already announced to the world that he's the shit and Maxim arrives via boat to kick his butt. It's almost like some alternate dimension take on the second game...which is good cause hey it's different. Of course Maxim gets wrecked and is kicked back to the first town to so Tia can ask him when he's going to settle down and maybe make non-Sinistral-fighting babies.
Being able to jump sure is nice, of course the first thing I did was jump off a cliff and take some damage. Combat is a bit like the newer Ys games in that like Adol, Maxim is a whirling buzz-saw that also shoots flames. That's all I'll say on that so far as I haven't even gotten out of the tutorial dungeon.
Dekar with pink hair!?
I'm loving this game already. :lol
Anyway just picked up my copy so uhh
First off everything is way different. Lufia 2 vanilla had this long build-up where townspeople were all "boy there sure are more monsters wandering around these days." and then eventually Gades and the gang showed up to wreck shit. In this version with five minutes Gades has already announced to the world that he's the shit and Maxim arrives via boat to kick his butt. It's almost like some alternate dimension take on the second game...which is good cause hey it's different. Of course Maxim gets wrecked and is kicked back to the first town to so Tia can ask him when he's going to settle down and maybe make non-Sinistral-fighting babies.
Being able to jump sure is nice, of course the first thing I did was jump off a cliff and take some damage. Combat is a bit like the newer Ys games in that like Adol, Maxim is a whirling buzz-saw that also shoots flames. That's all I'll say on that so far as I haven't even gotten out of the tutorial dungeon.