Welcome to Lufia World, a gaming site dedicated to bringing you in-depth coverage on the Lufia RPG series, and on several other classic video games. The Lufia games are all fantastic, with captivating storylines, deep characters, and well-developed dungeons. Four games long, the series will offer players some of the best moments in video gaming. And when you think it's all over, the famous Ancient Cave will provide you with extra challenges for a long time to come!
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News and Updates
For site updates, announcements, and Lufia news.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Lufia scan - Comment!
11:36 PST | Posted by SinReVi
Found this scan from Nintendo Power.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Lufia V For the Savior demo is out! - Comment!
15:21 PST | Posted by SinReVi
If you've been a visitor of Lufia World for a longer time, you might remember the fangame Lufia V For the Savior (previously known as Lufia V Fourth War). Anyway, Dekar The Great finally released a demo, so check it out if you haven't already =P
You can find the download link here. Comments about the game are welcome at the Lufia V board on our forum.
Let's hope there will be a full version one day.
Natsume + new VO company = no sucky voice acting in Lufia DS? - 1 Comment
14:25 PST | Posted by SinReVi
If you've played some games with voice acting that are localized by Natsume, you might have noticed that their voice actors aren't exactly the best .
However, Natsume has hired a new voice over company for two of their upcoming games. One of them is Lufia Curse of the Sinistrals =)
The other game is Rune Factory 3, a DS game that is also developed by Neverland Company.
It's mentioned that this voice over company also does anime dubbing.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
October release? - 6 Comments
13:44 PST | Posted by SinReVi
According to this video from Natsume's site, Lufia Curse of the Sinistrals will be released in October.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Interviews - 1 Comment
16:59 PST | Posted by SinReVi
Quoting two interviews with Natsume.
"How Natsume Picked Up Lufia: Curse Of The Sinistrals"
(original message from Siliconera)
By Spencer . July 14, 2010 . 4:28pm
Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies and the Final Fantasy Game Boy Advance ports are exceptions. Square Enix rarely licenses their titles to other publishers, but Natsume picked up Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals also known as Estoplis: The Lands Cursed by the Gods.
When I met with Hiro Maekawa, CEO and President of Natsume, I asked him how the deal for Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals came about. “I didn’t ask them [Square Enix] to give us Lufia. That came from their side,” Maekawa replied. “We received an offer from their side whether we were interested in publishing Lufia in America.”
Almost fourteen years ago, Natsume licensed the Super Nintendo game Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals from Taito, which was absorbed by Square Enix in 2005. Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals is a reimagining of Lufia II. What about the original game? Will Natsume re-release it on Virtual Console?
“Would it be possible? I’m sure everyone is open for discussion when it comes to ideas, but nothing at this time,” Graham Markay, Vice President of Operations at Natsume, answered.
“We just did Wild Guns. Shadow of the Ninja, which made a lot of people happy. We’re trying to get a couple of those other classic Natsume titles out as well.”
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"Interview: Natsume's Vice President of Operations Graham Markay"
(I only quoted the Lufia related parts, you can view the original and full interview here)
You guys have the Lufia revamp...
GM: Yup, re-imagining. Because it's not a port...
Well...
GM: ... It would be unfair to call it, you know, like it's just like the SNES version.
Right, but it has the same story and the same characters?
GM: No, the story's a little bit different. Characters are similar and story, but it's different. It's not just the same text that you would see in Lufia II for the SNES.
Right, the dialogue is completely new.
GM: That's right. And we know that there are die-hard fans and that they're watching what we do, so we're actually spending a lot of time on the VO as well as the script itself to make sure that we hold true, but at the same time try to bring in new Lufia fans and introduce them to the series.
Originally, Square-Enix was the publisher in Japan...
GM: Yeah, in Japan. It's a Square-Enix title.
... So, is there a reason they didn't want to bring it over here [Stateside]? How did you guys get involved?
GM: Truthfully, you'd probably have to ask Square-Enix about that. I don't really know the reasons; we just actually heard through the grapevine that Lufia might be available. We have some history with the series, so we talked to Square-Enix and it seemed like a pretty good fit for whatever reason and we moved on from there. Which is fantastic because Natsume released Lufia II and Lufia: The Legend Returns for the Game Boy Color.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Interview from E3 - 10 Comments
12:55 PST | Posted by SinReVi
Found an video of an interview with somebody of Natsume.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Lufia at Anime Expo - Comment!
14:48 PST | Posted by SinReVi
Natsume is attending Anime-Expo, and is taking their games they showed at the E3 with them.
This means the English Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals demo will be there as well. One of the other titles is Rune Factory 3 for the DS, which is also developed by Neverland Company.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
New Lufia DS english screenshots - 18 Comments
14:22 PST | Posted by SinReVi
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Artwork/logo - 11 Comments
17:51 PST | Posted by SinReVi Lufia logo and artwork from Natsume's site.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Lufia - Curse of the Sinistrals - 18 Comments
18:44 PST | Posted by SinReVi
Good news!
Lufia DS is going to be released in English!
Current information:
Title: Lufia - Curse of the Sinistrals
Publisher: Natsume
Release Date: Fall 2010 (if Natsume doesn't delay it, that is =P )
Price: .99
There's going to be more information next month, at E3
English Screenshots (all screenshots are of the Tanbel Abandoned Mine, which is an early dungeon)
Friday, April 16, 2010
Lufia II/DS character artwork - 13 Comments
19:02 PST | Posted by SinReVi
I'll see if I can find a bigger scan of this =P
Music from Hadou Disc - 1 Comment
15:25 PST | Posted by SinReVi
Remixed music from the pre-order CD. I found this on Nicovideo.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Music and Wallpaper - 4 Comments
17:29 PST | Posted by SinReVi
The official site and the OST site have been updated!
You can find a new wallpaper featuring the main cast and the Sinistrals on the official site.
The OST site has new samples of boths discs.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Estpolis II 15th Anniversary and Estpolis DS site update - Comment!
13:24 PST | Posted by SinReVi
It's Estpolis II's 15th anniversary today! Yay!
The official site is also updated today, and here is a picture of Dengeki which has Maxim on the cover =P
New drama track from the website. The ending music is used as background music.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Dekar and Artea gameplay videos - 1 Comment
20:12 PST | Posted by SinReVi
Dekar (in the Ancient Cave)
Artea
More new artwork! - 5 Comments
19:18 PST | Posted by SinReVi
The heroes
Sinistrals artwork - Only posting a link, just in case someone considers this as a spoiler.
I found the artwork
here, there's also screenshots of Karyn, Milka, Lisa, Marie, Clare and other people if you want to see them.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Two more gameplay movies - 3 Comments
16:10 PST | Posted by SinReVi
Tia gameplay
Guy gamepay (and encounter with Idura)
Friday, February 19, 2010
Maxim artwork - 7 Comments
21:28 PST | Posted by SinReVi
I found new artwork of Maxim, it's from Masahide Miyata's Twitter account , he is using this picture as background =P
(Miyata is the director/scenario writer of the Lufia games, except Ruins of Lore)
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Music and more - 5 Comments
16:58 PST | Posted by SinReVi
The official site has been updated today!
Gordovan's bridge has been added to the map and there's a new wallpaper in the multimedia section. And another track has been added to the web drama!
The OST site has also been updated, you can listen to 10 more samples now, and a few samples of the remixes that are on the second disc.
Square-Enix has opened a website for the OST (Original Sound Track) that is going to be released on 3 March. The first CD contains music from the game, and the second disc is a bonus disc which has 6 drama tracks and I think the other 14 tracks are remixes.
Besides that, Square-Enix is also releasing a game guide (192 pages).
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Web drama, wallpapers, more Lexis - 2 Comments
13:30 PST | Posted by SinReVi
The official site has been updated. You can now listen to a drama track about Tia (in the web drama section). I also uploaded it on youtube.
They also added Lexis and his event to the site, and some nice wallpapers in the Multimedia section, so check it out!
Monday, February 8, 2010
Lexis - and new scans - 3 Comments
15:30 PST | Posted by SinReVi
Lexis! And something about the Ancient Cave on the right page
New scans (Jimmy& Jamie, Idura) - 5 Comments
13:39 PST | Posted by SinReVi
Jimmy & Jamie
Idura
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Iris, Leefa and Prince Alex - 5 Comments
18:31 PST | Posted by SinReVi
Pages featuring Iris. The blonde girl on the right page is Leefa (the girl in Treadool who sells flowers)
Something about Bound Kingdom on the right page. The blonde guy is Prince Alex =P
Iris + Boxart + Soundtrack - 8 Comments
12:46 PST | Posted by SinReVi
Artwork for Iris ( more pictures here)
The boxart. It also shows the rating Cero B which means 12+
A scan
There will also be a soundtrack of the game. It will be released on 3-3-2010. Not much else is known but it will have 2 CD's and the price is 2800 Yen.
Artwork 
