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anyone else play this?
I recently started playing and for a Game Boy Color game it’s pretty terrific
the battle system is fairly complex and the pacing is pretty good
plus, the translation is occasionally hilarious. "THIS is what I call frue destruction!"
no, I didn’t misspell true, it actually says that in the game
overall it’s a pretty nice game! in fact, I like it more than Lufia 1 or 2 so far
will post link in downloads section
This is actually the only GBC game I ever beat. I have a copy of the DW3 remake, and it is excellent, but my older brother (a DW/DQ freak) pilfered it from me before I got very far.
For a GBC game, L:TLR is definitely pretty good. The GB has never had any really great RPGs (aside from FFL2)… and although it’s very little like the other Lufia games this is decent.
One part of the game that I do like is all the random hidden content. The 100-floor dungeon is actually decent (since you can find awesome stuff there, and it’s really not that bad… unless you have the game freeze on the 50th floor like I did), the hidden weapons are really neat, the fact that you can beat *any* of the Sinistrals the first time you fight them (when you’re supposed to lose) is really cool…
Also, the new game + is awesome. Screw money/levels carrying over… this one gives you 4 times the money and XP! It’s the same game, but you’ll never have to grind again!
The only downside of the game is a few of the characters are utterly worthless. Randolph was one of my favorite characters story-wise (because there aren’t enough random crotchety old guys whooping monsters left and right), but his low defense and accuracy make him completely useless, and he’s strictly worse than any of the other good fighters (Wain, the girl monk, and the pirate). Since you can only use one character per column per turn, I found I put a lot of characters in there just to soak up damage and use force skills if they had useful ones… or to add the synergies for skill-learning.
Yeah, it’s pretty ballin’ how you can get really FLEXX items if you take the time to defeat GADES when you fight him
Haven’t played this myself, but I remember reading about it back when I still had a subscription to Nintendo Power.
This is actually the only one of the series I don’t own I believe. The one on GBA was ok, but the original on SNES is one of the best RPGs released during that era in my opinion. I always thought the Lufia games didn’t really receive enough prominence. They were definitely slept on or Square releases would always overshadow them.
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