Let's Count To A Million!

[Adam]

172,300.

[hisak]

172,301

[Adam]

172,302.

[Big Tater]

172,303

[hisak]

172,304

So much spring.

[Hyruleansoldier]

172,305

Lufia II is SO GOOD.  The dungeons are reminiscent of the early 2D Zeldas.  And reminiscent of Golden Sun & Chrono Trigger.  All high in the best of list.

[hisak]

172,306

I'm afraid I haven't heard of it.

[Hyruleansoldier]

172,307

Might be called 'Estepolis' I & II over there, but there's also a Lufia for GBC, GBA and DS...  The DS one is the remake of the 2nd game, the one I'm playing. "Rise of the Sinistrals".  It's a prequel to the first game (which wasn't released in Europe).  But since it's a prequel, I don't mind not being able to play the first game as much.  They should have remade THAT one for the DS.

[hisak]

172,308

What is it?

[Hyruleansoldier]

172,309

Lufia (SNES and other platforms, see above): RPG, similar to the Golden Sun games.  It has random monster encounters on an overhead world map, like most RPG's, but in caves and dungeons you see the enemies and it's a bit like in AoL where you only fight them when you land on the same spot.  If you engage an enemy from behind you'll get a sneak attack in (and vice versa).  Dungeons have a lot of puzzles like the early Zelda games, move blocks and carry jars on switches, make bridges, hit a switch with an arrow, use the hookshot to cross a chasm, and find hidden paths to hidden treasure chests.  There's also elemental stuff, forging, and keeping and evolving of monsters that fight for you, *cough* Pokémon.  There's a handful of those which can level up and evolve a couple of times and have unique skills of their own.  There also seem to be a good deal of items that can be equipped together with conventional weapons to combine special types of attacks. And a rage meter: every time you take a hit it goes up, you can use its energy to unlease powerful attacks for specific weapons and accessories.  It seems to combine a great many awesome things from various successful games.  I like the battle system in the caves and dungeons - very Chrono Trigger - and puzzles therein - very Zelda.  There's also randomly generated cave of 30-100 floors (depending on your file) of puzzles and enemies, with some tough unique bosses and unique equipment, kind of master dungeon.  There's a lot to it apparently judging from the various in-depth faqs about it (many unique challenges go along with it and you could spend days in it seeing how it's randomly generated).

[hisak]

172,310

Interesting. Odd that I've never heard of it.

[Hyruleansoldier]

172,311

I've basically been wanting it for 15 years, lol, but whenever you find it on eBay it's way overpriced.  I was lucky to find a cartridge only, in Dutch.  Yes, they translated it into Dutch!  The rareness!

[hisak]

172,312

Are you playing the second game then? It looks like the first was never released in Europe.

[Hyruleansoldier]

172,313

Yeah.  Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals, the prequel.  But it's just called 'Lufia' in Europe because of the first game never being released here.

[hisak]

172,314

So you have the SNES version?

[Hyruleansoldier]

172,315

Yep.  I've never seen the DS remake over here either.  Might still get it but I'm good for now =D

[hisak]

172,316

Sounds like fun.

I want to go for a bike ride but my bike is locked in a barn across the street.

[Ezlo's Apprentice]

172,317

[zero]

172,318

[hisak]

172,319

Hi EA! Hi Z!