#lufia I

[sinrevi-art]

Alright, 2023 is almost over, but still ✨Happy 30th Anniversary✨ to the Lufia series! 🎂🎈

This was the original unfinished drawing. Next time I do a big group picture I'll pick a more simple coloring style than that😅 So I made a quick alternate colored version using the paint bucket for now, I just want this out before the year is over since 2023 is the 30th anniversary of the Lufia series

Comparison

In the original version I was going for a traditional media feeling.

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

[starlitskvaderart]

Midori One Day One Page 88!

Can't do a Lufia Week without a Shaia... I was torn on whether to draw Lexis, Raile, or Isaac but eventually decided on a wild card option: Yu Shaia from the canceled Ruins Chasers, a game I've been mourning for over two decades (though some of its aesthetic snuck into the DS remake of Lufia II....)

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[ancient-magus]

[hoshidensha]

Finished a commission for a dear Discord friend! Featuring some of their favourite characters: Pikachu, Maxim from Lufia II, and Amaterasu from Okami ♡

[emilysarmstrong]

I hate web 2.0 all my homies hate web 2.0 why is everything an advertisement hellscape vortex I JUST WANT A FUCKING SNES ROM

[yamsgarden]

After talking about Lufia, I jsut had to draw them 20 years later XD

And that battle theme is still one of the catchiest battle theme song imo

The sketch 

[spacelolli]

Sometimes fanfic authors introduce a female oc and pair her w half of a popular m/m ship. Then when the drama calls for the male partner to break up w her, the author vilifies her in really obtuse and unnecessary ways to justify the breakup.

[mrslittletall]

And because I have nothing better to do, let me give my final verdict for the 1993 SNES game "Lufia & the Fortress of Doom". It agged TERRIBLY! Like, the second Lufia aged like fine wine. I could play this game again and again, one of the best JRPGs for the Super Nintendo. This one? It aged like meat. This game is so obviously a NES game that got made for SNES LAST SECOND. Every dungeon is a maze. There are no puzzles to find but "hit switch and we won't even give you a hint for the order". Random battles are there every five steps. I started to abuse the item that made random battles less frequent to make the game a little more playable. There are only two dungeon designs, caves and towers and the cave music is so ANNOYING! And you have to spent 80 % of the game in the caves... The battle system? How about you can't do individual attacks but your guys attack groups of enemies? So if there are five of the same enemy, you better pull out the "hit all spells" or they will totally wreck you because you can't do focus damage. Oh, an enemy is dead? Your guy will not hit an enemy that is still alive, but hit NOTHING! At least in Golden Sun they defaulted to guarding then! And even after 30 hours of this game I don't get why the enemies had to many attacks and my guys barely seemed to be able to do anything. It felt very random. And then this final boss is an insult! Yeah, spam confusion and let me do absolutely nothing! I watched the ending on Youtube and I don't feel bad about it. Fighting Isshin for three nights was more fun than this sorry excuse for a final boss! But there were good things as well... the banter between the characters was nice and at least it has a story and a twist which was not the norm for games so old as this. However, when I rather play Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, a game that deliberately was made "bad" and as a parody to the genre than this, you have to rework your gameplay! And they did... the sequel is in all points a MUCH better game. Well, excuse me, I guess I am going back to the Ancient Cave. Because I never want to play Lufia & the Fortress of Doom again. Same as Earthbound Beginnings. It was nice to experience it, but I rather play the much much much better sequels.

[teefa85]

Me:  Don't create another RPGMaker game for this AU!  You barely did anything with the last idea you had!

Also Me:  Hmmm...this is already almost an RPG story.  It would be cool to make it...

(and this is why I finish nothing)

[sinrevi]

I had some free prompts for the AI generator on deviantart and entered a description of my ocs to see what it comes up with, but it gave me a Maxim instead?

[tegabyte]

@ignoct-week day 5: angst/whump

I am very clearly leaning into the angst on this one admittedly. I had another clarity of vision and I knew what I wanted to do. I actually wanted to do this with Ignis's back facing the camera, and just the hint of Noctis's head, but uhhhh... the positioning wasn't working right and I used a reference photo for this pose instead. (I did have a reference for the pose I initially wanted, but it wasn't coming together for me as fast and I wanted to stop being stuck.)

I was initially inspired by the Lufia and the Fortress of Doom english instruction manual, there's an art drawn of Maxim holding Selan in it that Compels me and also breaks my heart.

Anyway the pose and ref photo I ended up using made this easier AND more difficult (that head angle is..... a lot....). I'm very rusty, but I'm proud of myself for what I did. I once more gave up on the shoes but I hate Noctis's shoes and I needed to keep going!! Momentum!! time crunch!!! also I drew the Sword of the Father and I think that balances it out.

come to FF fandom, they said. be a fanartist, they said. don't look at all the details don't worry about it--

[r0zeclawz]

playing through lufia 2. its so mediocre so far i love it

[satoshi-mochida]

Some games that are currently stuck on older consoles that I hope get rereleased in some way, Part 2:

Part 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Summon Night series

.hack IMOQ(I somehow forgot about these for the first post)

Xenosaga series(another obvious one I forgot)

Older Fire Emblem games that haven't been ported/remade yet.

Tony Hawk's Underground/Underground 2

Xenoblade Chronicles X

SSX Tricky/SSX 3

Transformers: War for Cybertron/Transformers: Fall of Cybertron

Lufia series

Thousand Arms

Skies of Arcadia: Legends

The Lunar Series(except Dragon Song unless it gets a massive remake)

Many Tales of games.

The Legendary Starfy series.

The Firemen/The Firemen 2: Pete & Danny

Ever Oasis

Koudelka and Shadow Hearts series

Older Atelier games

The Legend of Heroes games pre-Trails, such as the Gagharv Trilogy(shown in correct order).

Radiata Stories

Final Fantasy XIII trilogy(they're all on Steam, but not modern consoles yet)

[starlitskvaderart]

Midori One Day One Page 87!

Artea! My other other favorite character! I've previously always drawn him based on the Lufia II manual art... because I've always drawn him in Fortress of Doom era, and that design best fits his vibe in that game. This time, though, I went for something based on his Lufia II sprite and his Estpolis I manual art. All of his SNES designs are pretty great honestly....

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[wandringaesthetic]

Top 5 JRPGs

So in order to answer this question I had to have a few existential crises. First: what is a JRPG (we just don't know)? I'm going with the more purist answer here since we're narrowing it down to 5. So no action RPGs or tactical RPGs. Second: do I just put down my personal favorites here? because that's going to be 4 Final Fantasy games and idk Suikoden II, probably, and that's not very interesting. I don't really believe in objective quality, but at the moment I find it interesting to take a stab at it or at least name things I think are genuinely very good and polished and have relatively universal appeal. In the end, ugh, whatever, here's a list:

Final Fantasy VII - this is the one that made me fall in love with the genre. I don't have much to say about it that hasn't already been said. I will say, while I mostly like Remake/Rebirth there's something about the original they're never going to catch, and there's a lot to be said about being (relatively) more succinct and focused and leaving some things to the imagination.

Dragon Quest V - This is as good as the UrJRPG series gets. Charming and funny and bright and occasionally tragic. It's about growing up and family and perseverance. It did the monster recruitment thing before Pokemon. I played the Super Famicom version via fan translation and emulation, so I don't know if the remake(s?) of this have quite the same charm. It's helpful for older games to look their age so you can put them in the context of their time, I think. I feel like relatively few people in the west have played this one, which is a shame because it's the missing piece in the influences of Lufia, Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, possibly even Pokemon. Really fun, really solid game that was genuinely touching and made me feel childlike wonder.

Suikoden II - I first played this one when I was in college and Going Through It, and I've been meaning to replay it ever since. So, my memories are a little muddled but I'm going to do my best. Two boys take diverging paths to the same end. A war story that takes on a human scale by developing a huge cast of characters and by having your base grow around you. It takes one of the most interesting middle chapter twists I can think of in a video game. It's one of the best looking and sounding sprite based games to exist. It has an iron chef cooking mini game.

Shadow Hearts Covenant - balances between horror and quirkiness. Atypical setting (in the shadows of IRL World War I). Atypical protagonist with many demons, literal and metaphorical. Really good gameplay. Takes the FFX conditional turn based thing, where you can see the turn order and where some skills alter it, and runs with it. Timed hits, but it's customizable so you can make the system more or less forgiving and balance risk/reward with precise inputs versus guaranteed, but lower, accuracy. Adds up to a really fun game. Vibes are immaculate. Cast is great. But I cannot speak to how good the plot is because I don't remember most of it. It and the rest of the series have never been ported or remade and likely never will be. Keep circulating the tapes.

Chrono Trigger - I mean if you're only going to play one JRPG this is the one. The love child of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, with the bright, fun adventure qualities of DQ and the scifi/fantasy fusion and existential angst of FF. Did gameplay stuff it took other games decades to do and did it better. One of the best looking SNES games. The music makes me feel feelings I can't name. I paradoxically think it's overrated even though I'm putting it on the list, because it's not a personal favorite and I don't think anything in the world lives up to the hype around this game. It is very good, however, and a distillation of the genre.