/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8891646
Lmao, i can easily tell you're a normalfag. Lufia is a shit series thay gets praise for no apparent reason. Only worthwhile game is perhaps TLR and that one is barely passable at best
I bet you think chrono trigger is the best rpg to have been created

>>8891646
Don't listen to the try hard fags op. I really like this game. Played the shit out of it when I was 7-8, when it was new. The music is fucking keno. Good shit

>>8891646
Liked the game back then, I still have the working cart in pristine condition, but I could never take all the grinding involved in moving forward.
Tried to play it recently on an emulator speeding battles 15x and still couldn't bear having to win 200 battles to level up and gain like 4HP from it.
Great graphics, great music, likeable characters, shit programming.
Glad you had fun though

>>8891646
It was a bit of a slog at times but I still found it compelling. Finding the 7 pieces of Aluminum was a huge PITA. I can still hear that intro theme in my head just thinking about this game.

Why did Lufia as a series die?

>>8892968
>>8893098
Thank you for enjoying it with me.

>>8893174
The games after Lufia 2 are not very good. The GBC game initially seems very promising but is boring as hell.

>>8893546
Some people advocate for 3 and 4, but I agree. They're really nothing to comment about. They also seem almost completely separate, but I never looked to see if they were actually completely different people.

I kind of liked the DS one. It's just Ys with the Lufia plotline. It was fun enough. They made one of the failure thief characters into a girl.

>>8891646
Great game when I was a kid only thing that messed me up real good was the 3 towers where you had to go back to Medan for the ruby.

>>8893557
The GBC and DS games were developed by the same studio (Neverland) and directed by Masahide Miyata, just like the SNES games. But you're right, after L2, they feel like spin-offs instead of proper series entries. It's possible that Miyata just didn't know where to go with it. To back this up, the GBC game's plot is basically a watered-down version of Lufia 1's, despite being an explicit sequel.

Lufia 1's plot premise is genius and deserves to be known as one of the all-time great tropes of JRPG history. But to just re-use it is shameful. Come up with something else, man.

>>8894605
>Lufia 1's plot premise is genius and deserves to be known as one of the all-time great tropes of JRPG history. But to just re-use it is shameful. Come up with something else, man.
To add to this, Lufia 3 retcons essential elements of Lufia 1's ending, just so they could tell the exact same story again. Unbelievable really.

I have only played the II. Fun game, Ancient Cave is a wild thing to try on. Story is too cheesy and Tia is the best girl.

>>8891646
Good luck trying to stay away from the Ancient Cave, OP.

>>8894190
oh yeah I forgot about those three towers too. That was another part of the game that just seemed to go on forever

>>8894694
That is where I stopped for a while. It's kind of a brilliant part of the game because it forces you to explore one continent in a non-linear way to solve a single puzzle that encompasses multiple towns and dungeons. The issue is that travel and battles are too slow, so it doesn't feel like the puzzle it's supposed to be (unless you use emulator fast-forward). You don't want to skip battles with sweet water, either, because bosses will severely wreck you if you are under-leveled.

Lufia 1 is such an interesting and underrated game, warts and all.

>>8894768
Yeah, I remember getting to that point and wandering around forever and not being able to progress to Elfrea, then dropping it. Picked it back up maybe 6 months later and was able to figure it out and move forward. I later heard there was some pretty rough translation issues that made it kinda cryptic to understand, but when I figured it out it was so satisfying. It was a great game for a kid that didn't have many games.

>>8891646
Guys I have a question I had a 100% complete Lufia 2 save on my original cart and one day the save files vanished. I checked the battery and the voltage was at 3.03 volts. I want to play it again but I’m concerned that it will die on me again. Should I just play it or change the battery?

>>8895117
Forgot to add I can’t be bothered changing the battery because I’m too lazy. Will it die on me soon?

>>8895118
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zGjGkFPIto

>>8895621
If only I was fluent in Japanese..

Based Lufia appreciators. Good to see people can appreciate Lufia 1 in spite of its jank.

>>8894605
I'd like to think the cancelled PSX entry Ruins Chasers had more ambitious plans for the overarching story than what The Legend Returns eventually became - The original story blurb for Ruins Chasers mentions Arek teaming up with the Sinistrals for a final confrontation on Doom Island, humanitys technology having advanced to the steam age, some weird religious cult that controls the world after having allegedely saved it during a cataclysmic event, etc.

When the PSX entry fell through, I think what Neverland did was put the game on ice and made TLR as essentially a stopgap title until they would have the chance to make Ruins Chasers properly. Which, unfortunately, never happened.

Miyata did confirm he still has the story for Ruins Chasers written down and saved on his PC during a fan event a while back.

>>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.

>The virgin four niggas in a row
VERSUS
>The Chad nine entourage

Any other JRPGs (that aren't tactics games) with stupid amounts of active party members? This shit is kino

>>8895701
>I'd like to think the cancelled PSX entry Ruins Chasers had more ambitious plans for the overarching story than what The Legend Returns eventually became
Most certainly. It would have been a good timeline to live in.

>>8895708
Lufia has almost no clout, so unfortunately that is not likely.

>>8895714
I'm not a fan of this game's battle system, innovative as it is. That said, I also think larger parties are better than three-person shit. Suikoden does it well with six people.

Shmergulblebble.
Obviously, needs less hacks.
SNES shit needs less hacks.
Header users can fuck themselves.

>>8897750
Nah romhacks are awesome and you're autistic

>>8895714
Labyrinth of Touhou

Am I a retard if I got stuck on the ghost cave?

>>8899262
No, there is a trick to it. There is a dude in the cave who tells you there's a trick to it, but that's literally all he says. I won't say more, but YouTube exists if you want to spoil it.

>>8892948
Why do children think that their opinions matter?

What's the point in these braindead jrpgs

>>8900994
I doubt you could beat this game. Probably too difficult for you.

>>8900994
You could argue the entire genre is braindead.

>>8891646
lufia 1 has some serious flaws that bog down the experience, but the core content is still solid. lufia 2 is an improvement in every possible way, and one of the best rpgs on the snes.

>>8901581
it is yeah
>>8901007
press X to win