RPGFan had the opportunity to interview Graham Markay, the Vice President of Operations over at Natsume, about their latest release: Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals.
Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "Natsume has been around for a long time now. Joining the world of gaming during the hey-day of the NES and Famicom in 1987, the company has gone to produce some of gaming’s most memorable games. From relaxing romps through virtual farms to deep RPG adventures and fast-paced action games, Natsume has done it all! So for today’s Top 10 we decided it would be fun to look back at the company’s legacy of gaming greatness and name the Top 10 Best Natsume games of all time!"
Sometimes, RPG series people love are lost to the sands of time. The developers that made them go out of business, other companies decide they are not profitable and age leads to them not getting a digital rerelease via a platform like the Virtual Console. Lufia is one of these series. But, while it is difficult to accumulate a complete collection of these games and get into them now, it is not impossible and many installments are worth your time.
I remember playing part one and two for SNES.
The SNES was seriously in a class of it's own back then.
Could not agree more. Pretty well anyone who wanted to play RPG's on a console had to get a SNES. To be fair the Sega Megadrive/Genesis had a decent collection of RPG's as well so having both consoles gave you the best of all worlds.
Lufia came in two parts.
1) Lufia & The Fortress of Doom
2) Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals
What is interesting is that Lufia II is actually a precursor to Lufia so if you really wanted linearity it would have been better to play Lufia II first.
BTW. There was a game called "Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals" which was a Nintendo DS remake of "Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals".
BTM: "Back before I started writing here on Black Trident Media I was doing a serious of write ups called Aspect Analysis on my personal blog, and then later on another site. It may have lost the name here, but all my non-review write ups are done in the same vein as those articles, and I write them with the intent at analyzing a single aspect of a game an discuss why it does or does not work. The first of these, which disappeared from the internet when I let my blog go down was on Lufia 2. That write up was pretty bad due to my lack of experience at the time, but this is me giving it another shot. This is here in part for those of you who may remember reading that and letting you know that yes, that other one was me and this is me giving it another shot, and in part to give everyone a proper Idea of what it is the focus of many of my write ups are."
