LUFIA DS! REMAKE OF LUFIA 2!

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The website is open! And it rocks!

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/est/

Comnig 2010.2.25

I just want to hear more music from the game at this point. :(
Wait did I miss something, why is Square putting this game out?
A crappy and incomplete translation of the prologue:

Prologue

The world is destroyed and regeneration follows.

For thousands of years, this history of destruction and regeneration by gods had been repeated. People were gradually forgetting this history.

It is now the present. In this world where everyone believes that the gods exist, the power the gods brought, the "Wave Device", was used to enjoy prosperity.

Floating in the sky were the huge ruins of the gods. (or is it ruins of huge gods?) These ruins were called the "Island of Nothingness" (Doom Island?),
(The rest of the sentence is maybe "(something) was calling to the world"). However...

(NEXT)

Suddenly, a roaring sound was emitted. Flaming red Island of Nothingness (glowing?).
Any/Some/Nowhere on the world, voices of despair (something) across

"I am the god of destruction, Gades. I will destroy this world. Humans, struggle well."

The gods' resurrection and the time of destruction have come. (or is it "The time of the gods' resurrection and destruction has come"?)

The "Wave Device" is the only power that can compete with gods. Having acquired that power, the "Hero of the Waves" appears and a new history begins.

(BACK)
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Wait did I miss something, why is Square putting this game out?
Square-Enix bought Taito a few years ago, so they own the Estpolis/Lufia series.


Silently, thanks for all the cool translations!


EDIT: MUSIC
http://rpgmaker.net/users/WIP/locker/FortheSaviorArrangement.mp3
Hexatona
JESEUS MIMLLION SPOLERS
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Okay, i have to quickly rap Lufia 1 and once my copy of Lufia 2 arrives, finish it as well in preparation.

I remember getting about halfway done lufia 2... did I finish it? I don't think so. oh no, my nostalgia-laden brain is finally going away...
Epic game, one of the few SNES RPGs I completed. Really want Lufia DS to do well alongside Golden Sun DS.
Watched the video on Kotaku. Looks like shit. Interest lost.
I really lost interest when I saw that it was a shoddy action RPG. Lufia II was super, super, super good. Really, I would take a game exactly like that. I think Neverland's inability to make a game exactly like it is why there hasn't been a successful Lufia game since.
Even more crappy translation of the wave device's story because of somewhat long sentences:
Waves and the Wave Device

The wave device was a heritage from the gods. That is what the power of the gods manifested itself as.

Gods' ruins were scattered across the world. The gods' artifacts, the "Wave Devices", were left in there. Water continuously flows from the Wave Device, overflowing with violent burning flames and mysterious powers (Uh...?). People gathered around the ruins, streets were born, and countries were shaped.

As time passed, genius scientist Dr. Lexis Shaia's efforts began to elucidate the mysteries of the mechanism of the wave devices. Everyone possesses "thoughts describing power." (imaginating about power?) The Wave device is what people believed at the occasion separating tip at god's "Wave" agreement, core becoming "(something) stone" hidden created thing
(even more "Uh...?" that I left nearly all literal because I couldn't figure it out).

If simple power is power created from wave devices, fire and water, light (something) power arrive until various purity group exists (some more literal "Uh...?"), people began to use it in everyday life.

Pictures to the right:
Picture 1:
Scattered all over the world, these are the gods' ruins.

Picture 2:
(Something about the ruins and waves)

Picture 3:
Seeking the wave device, Maxim visits the ruins.

Picture 4:
Maxim, at the ruins, gets his hands on the wave device.

Picture 5:
Maxim tries the wave device. (?; can't recognise 7th character)

Picture 6:
Responding to Maxim's spirit's wave, energy was produced.

Pictures 7 and 8:
This energy joins with the sword, embodied as roaring flames; this is Maxim's power.

The song playing is labeled as "Main Theme (Arranged Version)".
Also I know this has been said, but Lufia 2 has amazing music!
Oh my god, what did they do to Tia!? Where's the blue hair!? The whip of death!? The dress... WHERE'S THE ACTUAL TIA!?

http://www.rpgamer.com/games/lufia/lufialands/propaganda/lufialands8.jpg

Which do you prefer the new or the old... style Tia.
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New. Old Tia was stupid anyway. Her whip was made of cloth.
New design. Way cooler with the sleveless top and the overknee socks.
Tia is like Penny in Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. Don't like it at all and I'm starting to get that feeling that Lufia DS will be garbage.
tardis
is it too late for ironhide facepalm
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holy crap, epic character redesign is epic. i really like that outfit.
I'm too used to the old style design, in all honesty I thought the whip was more epic. The dress not as much, but c'mon bitch slap the enemies with a whip. *_*;
Tia's page:
Tia
Character voice:
Toyosaki Aki

Quote:
Ehehe~. As I thought, I'm not useless~.

Profile:
Age: 17 years old
Height: 158 centimeters
Weapon: Trunk with built-in hook shot
Wave Device: Steel's wave device
Attack type: Technique type

Yellow stripe:
Tia's trunk is filled with hazards!?

Green text at top:
A new character and the special techniques of the "Wave Arts"' introduction!
(Actually, only "A new character and" is on this page and the rest is on the previous page.)

First paragraph:
15 years ago, a Super Famicon game was released as the RPG, "Estpolis Denki II." This product for the Nintendo DS is a complete remake of the game "Estpolis". As previously reported, there were the hero Maxim and the heroine Selena. Then, information about the God of Destruction Gades was reported. This time, it's Maxim's childhood friend's, Tia's, introduction! Furthermore, the character-specific skills, the "Wave Arts", are also discussed. Dungeon strategy and battle (something), (something about head/mind).
(Super Famicon = SNES, Estpolis Denki = Lufia, "hero" Maxim as in "protagonist")

Orange text:
Thoughts gather to the hero Maxim
An innocent second-hand shop's poster girl
(kanbanmusume is apparently a "pretty daughter who attracts boys to parents' shop")

Second paragraph:
The story begins and the scene is Elcid, where a kanbanmusume works at a second-hand shop. She is Maxim's childhood friend. Having lost both parents early, her personality is that of a lonely spoiled child (unsure). Harboring slightly romantic feelings towards Maxim, she forcibly becomes a party member (unsure). She carries a special trunk equipped with a wave device in a hook shot (unsure of the wave device's and the hook shot's relation).

(The katakana suggests Elcid is actually pronounced Elkid.)

Blue text:
120% jealousy towards Maxim!!

Text describing the top screenshot:
At Maxim setting off on a trip, Tia throws a tantrum. (Sentence I am unsure of: About Maxim, to think, reason of reaction, however) As a result, what will become of her love?

Top screenshot:
Tia:
T, "travel" what!? To a place without me, two people plan on going on a trip!? What? Is this an elopement of love!?

Text describing bottom two screenshots:
The contents of Tia's trunk applies various injuries. What the heck seems to be coming out?

Bottom left screenshot:
C.Attack Lv1

Bottom right screenshot:
Uo-rudo (The "Water" spell)

Edit: The second paragraph is "completed".

Wave Arts' page:
Maxim's wave art
Cross dash

Selena's wave art
Icicle blade

Tia's wave art
Hook shot

Text above/under the screenshots at the bottom (from left to right):
Jeffrey Workshop (Jaffy)
Pub
Kaneamaru's residence ("Too much money" or Rochy, the rich guy who buys the ruby apple)
Parcelyte's grand leader's residence

Characters speaking in those screenshots (from left to right):
Jessica
Jeffrey (Jaffy)
Kaneamaru (Rochy)
Miles, the grand leader (President?)
Selena
Trunk with built-in hook shot > some whip
Looks like they got Tia perfect. It would be kind of dumb if they left her hair the same color as Selan's.

Also, Trunk with built-in hook shot is incredible.
I like the general design for the new Tia, but I still feel like my childhood is getting trampled on. What have they done to my useless healer stereotype Tia that all but disappears from the storyline a quarter of the way into the game??? :'(

..Not that I'd know anything about drastically changing story/game designs in re-makes.. <_<

(The re-designs for the girls I'm digging so far in terms of style. Maxim's biker punk look and Guy's.. bulkiness, not so much.)