/vr/ - Retro Games

I would have given my left nut to see Lufia Ruins Chasers come out as intended on the PSX

>Nihon Flex doesn't go bankrupt and Neverland gets the PSX entry out as originally planned
>Alternatively Neverland gets The Legend Returns out by 1999 or early 2000s so it doesn't release on a dead console
>Make Ruins of Lore a launch title for the GBA or get the polish up to the level that it doesn't look outdated in 2002 compared to Golden Sun which had released half a year earlier

There, the IP is now in a position to have kept going in the 2000s as a smaller-scale RPG series with either portable or console entries

>>10256560
Insane find. Not sure what to say except absolutely based. Saved.

I had a lore autism moment in a Lufia thread a while back, wish you would had been there to share this, your stuff is fascinating. Please share more if you have anything.

Any speculation on Arekdias or why the Sinistrals need to constantly test humanity?

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>>9947278

>Jap Janny who found the old design docs in a warehouse wanted 5000 bucks for them
>Nobody bid on it
>The auction finished with no wins and nobody knows what happened to it

I'm still fucking mad

>Real PSX Lufia 3 never

Why are we here? Just to suffer?

I'd give my left nut to see what Lufia: Ruins Chasers on the PSX was like

I'd love to see literally anything from the PSX Lufia game

>>8895701
Hell, if those clowns at Square-Enix would settle the rights and do a Shenmue 3-style kickstarter, I'd probably throw a shameful amount of money at it.

>>8724534
Substantiate your claim anon - Lufia 1 has a good OST but 2 is fucking phenomenal. Any particular tracks you think about in 1?

>Neverland never got to make Lufia 3

It still hurts bros

What are some of your prototype "holy grails"?

I'm a huge Lufiafag so I've had a hardon for Lufia Ruins Chasers, the cancelled PSX entry, for the longest time. Pic related is concept art for the main characters that was found in an old warehouse some guy was cleaning out a few years back.

The game ended up getting canned and we got anotherg game on the GBC which people often confuse with the cancelled PSX entry - The official blurb for Ruins Chasers on the PSX was very different with the game taking place in a more futuristic world where humanity had long since forgotten the Doom Island wars and experienced an acceleration in technology from the medieval times of 1 and 2.

From the interviews I've read it sounds as if the PSX game never really got off the ground - There aren't even any pictures of it running, only concept art and some design docs from the warehouse guy. From descriptions, it sounds as if the game used an isometric perspective not unlike Energy breaker and some of Neverlands other titles on the SNES.