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Codiekitty · 02-10-2007, 09:47 PM

When I first started playing this, it looked like it was going to be my next Game of the Moment. Well, I'm not sure where I am, but I'm at least halfway through, and I'm starting to really hate it.

I once said that nothing brings down an RPG faster than being slow, and Lufia is an example of that. I could handle the generic battle system and the cheap looking battles (when monsters attack, the sprite just flips a few times, which looks especially bad for monsters that are holding something in one hand), except in the dungeons and on the overworld everyone moves at a snail's pace. I often have times where I get into a fight every three damn steps, and even though there's an item that's supposed to keep monsters away it doesn't seem to do anything unless you're a certain level compared to the monsters of the area (think how the Repels in Pokemon only keep away Pokemon that are at a lower level than your lead Pokemon).

I once heard somebody say that all the dungeons in Phantasy Star IV were either caves or computers. In a word, no, although if you lumped all the cave and computer dungeons together they might take up half the dungeons; Zio's Fortress and the Air Castle could be considered caves if you really stretched it, but the Garuberk Tower looks like it's made out of flesh, and the Rhykros towers like crystal (that doesn't sound like a lot of variety, but the game doesn't have THAT many dungeons to begin with). But I get the hunch that to say all the dungeons in Lufia, sans the Fortress of Doom, are all either caves or towers isn't an exaggeration. I'm fairly late into the game (I've raised the Fortress of Doom and started the next fetch quest) and it's all I've seen. It's frustrating to have to go through a cave, then another cave, then a tower, then another cave, then three towers, then another cave, then yet another tower, and so fourth, and at least the computer dungeons in PS4 were colorful and detailed; the caves and towers in Lufia all look the same, except some have different (and sometimes nausiating) color schemes.

Where are these lemmings going? Not the Super Nintendo Super Shire! They know to go to Codiekitty.com now!

02-10-2007, 09:47 PM	#1
Codiekitty Just Another Face in Red Jumpsuit Join Date: May 2001 Location: Lemmingland Gender: Posts: 19,143 Thanks: 121 Thanked 174 Times in 120 Posts Points: 51,565.72 Bank: 3,021,450.74 Total Points: 3,073,016.46 Donate	Lufia and the Fortress of Doom When I first started playing this, it looked like it was going to be my next Game of the Moment. Well, I'm not sure where I am, but I'm at least halfway through, and I'm starting to really hate it. I once said that nothing brings down an RPG faster than being slow, and Lufia is an example of that. I could handle the generic battle system and the cheap looking battles (when monsters attack, the sprite just flips a few times, which looks especially bad for monsters that are holding something in one hand), except in the dungeons and on the overworld everyone moves at a snail's pace. I often have times where I get into a fight every three damn steps, and even though there's an item that's supposed to keep monsters away it doesn't seem to do anything unless you're a certain level compared to the monsters of the area (think how the Repels in Pokemon only keep away Pokemon that are at a lower level than your lead Pokemon). I once heard somebody say that all the dungeons in Phantasy Star IV were either caves or computers. In a word, no, although if you lumped all the cave and computer dungeons together they might take up half the dungeons; Zio's Fortress and the Air Castle could be considered caves if you really stretched it, but the Garuberk Tower looks like it's made out of flesh, and the Rhykros towers like crystal (that doesn't sound like a lot of variety, but the game doesn't have THAT many dungeons to begin with). But I get the hunch that to say all the dungeons in Lufia, sans the Fortress of Doom, are all either caves or towers isn't an exaggeration. I'm fairly late into the game (I've raised the Fortress of Doom and started the next fetch quest) and it's all I've seen. It's frustrating to have to go through a cave, then another cave, then a tower, then another cave, then three towers, then another cave, then yet another tower, and so fourth, and at least the computer dungeons in PS4 were colorful and detailed; the caves and towers in Lufia all look the same, except some have different (and sometimes nausiating) color schemes. Where are these lemmings going? Not the Super Nintendo Super Shire! They know to go to Codiekitty.com now! Last edited by Codiekitty; 02-10-2007 at 09:54 PM.