Square Enix Announces Lufia Sequel
Revival of classic Taito Super NES RPG to be unveiled next week.
Posted Nov 13, 2009 at 00:38, By Anoop Gantayat
Square Enix will be tapping deep into the vault for an upcoming RPG release. Famitsu.com reports today that the company is planning new entry in the Estpolis series.
Taito originally released Estpolis Denki for the Super Famicom in June 1993. A North American Super Nintendo release followed later that year under the name Lufia & the Fortress of Doom.
According to Famitsu.com, the new game, to be titled Estpolis, is being produced by the same development staff as the original. Square Enix, which now owns Taito, will be serving as publisher.
Aside from that, the site provides no information on the game -- including a platform and release time frame.
The site promises a full unveiling of the new game in next week's issue of the print Famitsu (due out on November 19). Until then, you'll have to see if you can garner any hints from the first piece of artwork, viewable in the Famitsu.com story.
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Reader Comments (showing 4 of 4)
yowvapa @ 2009.11.13, 2:00
I would not be surprised if this game goes on the DS or the Wii. At least unlike Namco Bandai an Nippon Ichi, Square-Enix did not go the countdown route.
lech @ 2009.11.13, 2:04
I cried tears of joy when I read that story, but then I remembered the last two Lufia games, and was knocked back to reality. The chances of this being as fantastic as Lufia 1 or 2 are quite slim at the moment. Please don't have randomly generated dungeons, please don't have randomly generated dungeons, please...
ragolslayer @ 2009.11.13, 5:10
Masahide Miyata better be working on this. There's no "original development staff" without him.
@lech - What was so bad about the GBC version? I don't remember it being that bad. The GBA version however... *vomit*
lech @ 2009.11.13, 5:57
Randomly generated dungeons.
The GBC game was decent, but nowhere near as good as the SNES games. And I agree with your review of the GBA edition.