Square Enix's new Lufia game is a Lufia II remake

by JC Fletcher on Nov 18th 2009 3:45PM

Last week, Square Enix announced a new entry in Taito's long-dormant Lufia(or Estpolis) series for an unknown platform. As it turns out, it's not entirely new, though enough is being changed that it might as well be. The new Lufia is, in fact, a remake of 1995's Lufia II, redone in 3D for the DS.

According to IGN's summary of a Famitsu article, that's not the only change. The game is now an action RPG instead of a turn-based game -- with combo-based attacks, and the ability to launch enemies into the air, as well as switch party members mid-combo. In addition, it will be fully voice acted. Estpolis will be released in Japan on February 25.

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Tags: estpolis, lufia, lufia-ii, square-enix, taito

Reader Comments (9)

This is why I love Square-Enix. Lufia was a great game on SNES, so even if this is another fried remake for SE long list, it's a good one.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCK! IT TOOK THEM LONG ENOUGH!

Now they should remake the third game. Because that was damn hilarious.

This took really long, but it's finally here, even though I'm not really fond of SE these days but I'll take what I can after the abomination that Ruins of Lore was, I'll just erase that from my memory and call this Lufia IV.

Normally I'd be a little suspicious of them making this game an action RPG, but I don't remember Lufia 2 having the best RPG system around so it could turn out good after all.